Mary, Joseph and 7-year-old Jesus embark on a journey from Egypt to Nazareth after the young boy miraculously brings someone back to life. Told from his childhood perspective, it follows young Jesus as he grows into his religious identity.
8 April 1936, Venice, Veneto, Italy
25 April 1988, Oxfordshire, England, UK
22 June 1972, Umbertide, Umbria, Italy
4 February 1972, Dublin, Ireland
13 October 1929, Chicago, Illinois, USA
18 May 1979, Naples, Italy
4 February 1982, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, USA
28 September 1959, Tangier, Tangier-Tetouan, Morocco
8 October 1981, Loreto, Marche, Italy
1 May 1970, Zurich, Switzerland
6 September 1983, Rome, Lazio, Italy
25 May 1934, Liverpool, England, UK
1973, Bury, Lancashire, England, UK
1972, Manchester, England, UK
December 05, 2016
[Non-Christians] will find this trudge through Jesus' childhood years laborious, even though it thankfully refrains from proselytising.
March 12, 2016
We know how the story ends, so there's little in the way of tension.
March 12, 2016
This uninspiring, borderline inept spiritual drama about the Son of God's formative years preaches to the choir.
March 14, 2016
The Young Messiah struggles to hold its audience's attention.
March 11, 2016
This pious drama is a work of minimal imagination and even less subtlety.
March 22, 2016
The problem here is not its one- sidedness, but its one-dimensionality.
March 18, 2016
Mostly the movie is simply dull, emotionally flat and so solemnly reverent that it's dramatically inert.
April 05, 2016
'The Young Messiah' helps fill in the blanks.
August 02, 2016
The Young Messiah takes a different approach by focusing on a specific point in Jesus's childhood. But the faith-based film drags, and is mostly unremarkable.
March 16, 2016
It's only suspenseful if you aren't familiar with the story of Christ -- but if you aren't, there's no reason you'd be watching this.
March 14, 2016
"The Young Messiah" performs no miracles.
March 11, 2016
Perhaps realizing that enticing nonbelievers into another movie about the life of Christ may necessitate the wild-style of a director like Darren Aronofsky, the filmmakers decided to play it safe rather than risk conservative Evangelical rejection.

