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(1 - 18) of 18 OFCS Rating: 25% Rotten Page   1   "The first movie this year to deliver sheer musical pleasure from beginning to end."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Betty Jo Tucker C- "Cuba Gooding Jr. and Beyonce Knowles bring us a rousing film about a gospel choir... too bad it goes straight to hell."   EDGE Boston   David Foucher 2.5/4 "Too bad the film is never as soulful as the songs the character’s sing."   Slant Magazine   Ed Gonzalez 1.5/4 "At 120 minutes, the film just barely squeezes in the musical moments making the uninspired and unfunny expositional scenes all the more tortuous."   eFilmCritic.com   Erik Childress C "There are a number of things it does right -- among them the hiring of poor, talented Jonathan Lynn to direct -- but none of them have even the potential to transcend the overwhelming inanity of the plot, which is one part cliche and two parts complete id"   Film Blather   Eugene Novikov C "Undemanding audiences may be willing to succumb to 'Temptations,' but the more discerning will easily be able to resist."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek "A mildly entertaining comedy, carried by its rousing Gospel choir numbers, about the internal makeover of a selfish liar who finds community just when he needs it most."   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat 2.5/4 "It's Sister Act warmed over."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 49/100 "The lack of gross-out moments is refreshing, as is the way that it never sacrifices its character-driven plot to a discordant comic set piece."   MovieMartyr.com   Jeremy Heilman 3/5 "I wish the writers had been tempted to write a better story."   3BlackChicks Review   Kamal 'The Diva' Larsuel B "You may or may not believe that gospel music saves the soul of an out of work advertising executive, but it saves the movie and that might be enough to make you say "Amen.""   Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies   Nell Minow 2.5/5 "It feels more like an artificial fable than a story we can sink our teeth into."   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline 1/5 "When he's not keening and shucking and jiving and behaving altogether spastically, Cuba kicks into full-on "dramatic mode" and the results are unquestionably more amusing."   eFilmCritic.com   Scott Weinberg D "So woefully misconceived, so completely devoid of even generic, safely banal Hollywood spiritual uplift, that it made me long for the spiritual depth and religious meaning of [even] Sister Act and Bruce Almighty."   Decent Films Guide   Steven D. Greydanus 1/4 "That its title isn't something of an ironic warning is mostly the product of the fact that no one in their right mind was ever tempted in the first place."   Film Freak Central   Walter Chaw 3/10 Read review   Modamag.com   Brian Orndorf Read review   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs Read review   BlackFilm.com   Wilson Morales  (1 - 18) of 18 OFCS Rating: 25% Rotten Page   1