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Movie ID: 737
RT slug: honk_for_jesus_save_your_soul
RT URL: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/honk_for_jesus_save_your_soul
Release year: 2022
Runtime: 102 mins
Wide release date: 2022-09-02
Limited release date: —
Festival premiere date: 2022-01-23
Streaming release date: 2022-09-02
Tomatometer final: 72%
Audience score final: —
Genres: Comedy, Drama
Directors: Adamma Ebo
Writers: Adamma Ebo
Producers: Adamma Ebo, Adanne Ebo, Amandla Crichlow, Daniel Kaluuya, Rowan Riley
MPAA rating: R
Executive Producers: —
Created: 2026-06-14 16:15:42
Updated: 2026-06-14 16:15:42
After a scandal forces their megachurch to close, a pastor and first lady attempt a grand comeback with a documentary crew watching every move.
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Canonical reviews: 180
Canonical fresh: 130
Canonical rotten: 50
Canonical calculated Tomatometer: 72%
Latest snapshot UTC: 2026-06-14 14:18:39
Snapshot Tomatometer: 72%
Snapshot review count: 180
Snapshot fresh count: 130
Snapshot rotten count: 50
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| 2 | Sterling K. Brown | Lee-Curtis Childs |
| 3 | Austin Crute | Khalil |
| 4 | Conphidance | Keon Sumpter |
| 5 | Devere Rogers | Basil |
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| ID | Critic | Outlet | Fresh? | Score | RT Time Raw | Approx Published UTC | Quote |
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| 167730 | Sammie Purcell | Rough Draft Atlanta | Fresh | — | 2025-07-28T17:56:49Z | 2025-07-28 17:56:49 | Performativity is the name of the game in “Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul,” a scathing, wickedly funny satire of religion, misogyny, homophobia, and everything in between. |
| 167731 | Anna Hoang | Boston Hassle | Fresh | 3.5/5 | 2025-07-20T12:41:44Z | 2025-07-20 12:41:44 | The crash and burn of high-profile celebrities, even in the church world, makes me cynical about people who blindly follows the word of others, but for Hall and Brown, I might be close to devotion. |
| 167732 | Joe George | Sojourners | Fresh | 3.5/5 | 2024-07-20T00:19:35Z | 2024-07-20 00:19:35 | As much as the Childs insist their lives are blessed by God's favor, pointing to their giant house and luxury clothes, Honk for Jesus constantly shows their suffering. |
| 167733 | Shanelle Genai | The Root | Fresh | — | 2024-06-19T04:15:04Z | 2024-06-19 04:15:04 | "...what do you do when the people you expect to walk more upright than the rest of us prove to be just as jacked up and arguably more mendacious as the sinners they act like they’re better than? |
| 167734 | Sarah Vincent | Sarah G Vincent Views | Fresh | — | 2024-06-09T13:19:52Z | 2024-06-09 13:19:52 | I would recommend “Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul” if you love fictional documentaries, love the cast or are familiar with this type of prosperity gospel. |
| 167735 | Marya E. Gates | Cool People Have Feelings, Too. (Substack) | Fresh | — | 2024-02-13T00:31:57Z | 2024-02-13 00:31:57 | Hall gives what a career-best performance in a role that allows both her comedic and dramatic acting muscles to shine. |
| 167736 | Nuha Hassan | Nuha Hassan (Medium) | Fresh | — | 2023-09-08T16:55:09Z | 2023-09-08 16:55:09 | Alongside the hilarity and dark subject, Hall and Brown are great counterparts, filled with awkward laughs and the latter’s egomaniac and extravagant performance. |
| 167737 | Rick Bentley | KGET-TV (Bakersfield, CA) | Fresh | B | 2023-08-09T22:01:28Z | 2023-08-09 22:01:28 | Both Brown and Hall play their roles with just the right amount of pious pride and vulnerability. |
| 167738 | Tina Kakadelis | Beyond the Cinerama Dome | Fresh | — | 2023-07-24T19:30:48Z | 2023-07-24 19:30:48 | It’s thanks to Hall that Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul. stays afloat as long as it does. And it’s because of her intensity that the rest of the film’s shortcomings stand out so much. There is magic here, but it’s not ready for a rebirth quite yet. |
| 167739 | Stacey Yvonne | The Geekiary | Fresh | 3.5/5 | 2023-02-15T05:25:48Z | 2023-02-15 05:25:48 | I want Regina Hall to get her roses, the rose bush, the garden, the ground and any piece of land she wants for this performance. |
| 167740 | Eve Tushnet | Patheos | Fresh | — | 2023-01-31T23:42:11Z | 2023-01-31 23:42:11 | Unfortunately the movie mostly avoids the more surreal or mystical possibilities of its satire. I still enjoyed it, for sure, but there are missed opportunities. |
| 167741 | Rich Cline | Shadows on the Wall | Fresh | 3.5/5 | 2022-11-09T19:27:18Z | 2022-11-09 19:27:18 | Writer-director Adamma Ebo takes a knowing approach that finds amusing gags that are sometimes obvious or unnerving. And there's enough complexity in the story to take in both broad nuttiness and darker emotions. |
| 167742 | Craig D. Lindsey | Nashville Scene | Rotten | — | 2022-10-28T23:06:31Z | 2022-10-28 23:06:31 | The Ebo twins don’t know whether to take pity on them or vilify them for the materialistic heathens that they are. |
| 167743 | Rene Sanchez | Cine Sin Fronteras | Fresh | 3/4 | 2022-10-08T19:08:55Z | 2022-10-08 19:08:55 | Regina Hall is superb in this humorous and sharp mockumentary that explores the double standards of a religious congregation. [Full Review in Spanish] |
| 167744 | Michael Ward | Should I See It | Fresh | 3/5 | 2022-10-08T17:17:30Z | 2022-10-08 17:17:30 | Regina Hall, to what should be no one’s surprise, provides the heart of the film. |
| 167745 | Murjani Rawls | Substream Magazine | Rotten | — | 2022-09-26T12:32:18Z | 2022-09-26 12:32:18 | With so many thought-provoking things 'Honk for Jesus' has to say, you might want it to zero in on its overall focus — especially at the conclusion. Perhaps that’s in the beholder’s eye. |
| 167746 | Erik Childress | Movie Madness Podcast | Rotten | 1/4 | 2022-09-21T23:21:18Z | 2022-09-21 23:21:18 | Satires do not get limper than this one-joke (i.e. look at all we’ve bought) film that wastes the comic potential of Regina Hall and Sterling K. Brown. Mishapen at every turn, this movie misses a multiple-mile target by forgetting to bring the ammo. |
| 167747 | Dominic Griffin | The Baltimore Beat | Rotten | 5/10 | 2022-09-21T20:29:19Z | 2022-09-21 20:29:19 | Ebo adapted this film from her own short of the same name, and at feature length, it regularly feels like a thimble full of wine diluted in a goblet full of holy water. |
| 167748 | Stephen Silver | Splice Today | Rotten | 2.5/5 | 2022-09-19T01:32:14Z | 2022-09-19 01:32:14 | Succeeds in landing some punches, but the laughs peter out quickly, and its ending is a bizarre muddle. |
| 167749 | Sara Michelle Fetters | MovieFreak.com | Fresh | 3/4 | 2022-09-18T20:52:28Z | 2022-09-18 20:52:28 | Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul. is a chronicle of a woman at a crossroads, analyzing life, love, and God in excruciating detail — and not necessarily in that order. |
| 167750 | Leo Brady | AMovieGuy.com | Fresh | 2.5/4 | 2022-09-14T17:44:18Z | 2022-09-14 17:44:18 | In director Adamma Ebo’s feature debut, it’s a tale of many parts, where the comedic stuff is gold, the dramatic stuff is fine, and the final result is ultimately successful. |
| 167751 | Rendy Jones | Rendy Reviews | Fresh | 3.5/5 | 2022-09-14T12:14:47Z | 2022-09-14 12:14:47 | Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul’s satirical edge is far from a repetitive one-note joke as Ebo’s script explores the inner workings of this once reputable couple. |
| 167752 | Dennis Schwartz | Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews | Fresh | B- | 2022-09-12T12:24:56Z | 2022-09-12 12:24:56 | Scathing satire on organized religion. |
| 167753 | Richard Brody | The New Yorker | Fresh | — | 2022-09-12T11:20:05Z | 2022-09-12 11:20:05 | Ebo doesn’t look closely at the church’s business side or the protagonists’ inner lives; nonetheless, Hall provides the film with a solid emotional core... |
| 167754 | Susan Granger | SSG Syndicate | Rotten | 5/10 | 2022-09-11T19:32:55Z | 2022-09-11 19:32:55 | Although scripted as a cringe comedy, it's jumbled, annoyingly repetitive and directed at far too slow a pace. |
| 167755 | Karen M. Peterson | Citizen Dame | Fresh | — | 2022-09-10T18:27:00Z | 2022-09-10 18:27:00 | More than the story or even her co-stars, Regina Hall makes "Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul." a film you should not miss. |
| 167756 | Russ Simmons | KKFI-FM (Kansas City) | Fresh | 3/5 | 2022-09-10T17:32:05Z | 2022-09-10 17:32:05 | It’s padded, overlong and subtle as a sledgehammer. Still, “Honk for Jesus, Save Your Soul” is a divine acting showcase. |
| 167757 | Dan Buffa | Dose of Buffa | Rotten | C | 2022-09-09T19:31:17Z | 2022-09-09 19:31:17 | I don’t fault the players. Brown and Hall are great and enrich the material, but they fall victim to a thin screenplay that can't decide if it wants to be a dark comedy with a message or a thought-provoking drama. |
| 167758 | Jackie K. Cooper | jackiekcooper.com | Fresh | 6/10 | 2022-09-09T19:24:18Z | 2022-09-09 19:24:18 | Acting is top notch but the screenplay is not as sharp as the story requires it to be. |
| 167759 | Travis DeShong | In Review Online | Fresh | — | 2022-09-09T16:37:40Z | 2022-09-09 16:37:40 | At times, the quality of the commentary outclasses the quality of the comedy, and the narrative as a whole. But while the film may be an uneven viewing experience, it shines often enough to establish Ebo as a creator to keep an eye on. |
| 167760 | Justin Chang | NPR | Fresh | — | 2022-09-09T10:12:24Z | 2022-09-09 10:12:24 | Sterling K. Brown and Regina Hall give wonderfully complex performances as a disgraced Christian power couple trying to salvage what remains of their spiritual empire. |
| 167761 | Robert Denerstein | Denerstein Unleashed | Rotten | — | 2022-09-09T00:56:02Z | 2022-09-09 00:56:02 | A muddled satire that seems unsure how hard it wants to hit. |
| 167762 | Andy Klein | FilmWeek (LAist) | Rotten | — | 2022-09-08T23:57:36Z | 2022-09-08 23:57:36 | I didn't find it funny at all... It works at 15 minutes, but not so well at 90 minutes. |
| 167763 | Tim Cogshell | FilmWeek (LAist) | Fresh | — | 2022-09-08T23:56:29Z | 2022-09-08 23:56:29 | This movie is mostly funny, except for when it creeps on some fairly penetrating notions about faith versus being true to oneself. |
| 167764 | Jim Judy | Screen It! | Rotten | 4/10 | 2022-09-08T20:26:49Z | 2022-09-08 20:26:49 | This feels like a 15-minute film that should have maintained that length and leaves its otherwise charismatic stars high and dry trying to eke something out of material that simply can't sustain them or the film. |
| 167765 | Martha K. Baker | KDHX (St. Louis) | Fresh | — | 2022-09-08T18:03:50Z | 2022-09-08 18:03:50 | [Writer/director Adamma Ebo] keeps her thumb on the scale of satire, pressing from comedy to darkness beyond anything that Christopher Guest managed in his mockumentaries. |
| 167766 | JimmyO | JoBlo's Movie Network | Fresh | 7/10 | 2022-09-07T22:22:00Z | 2022-09-07 22:22:00 | What truly shines in Honk for Jesus are the two leading performances from Sterling K. Brown and Regina Hall. |
| 167767 | tt stern-enzi | Fox19 (Cincinnati, OH) | Fresh | A | 2022-09-07T18:59:58Z | 2022-09-07 18:59:58 | About halfway through, the humor kind of drops away and it becomes a much more serious story... |
| 167768 | Jeffrey Lyles | Lyles' Movie Files | Rotten | 4/10 | 2022-09-07T15:31:39Z | 2022-09-07 15:31:39 | Wants to be this explosive send up of the megachurch inner workings but the Ebos’ efforts to make a drama out of a comedic setup isn’t worthy of redemption. |
| 167769 | Cory Woodroof | 615 Film | Fresh | — | 2022-09-07T01:40:18Z | 2022-09-07 01:40:18 | I’ll just find myself in the middle here. Though, massive points for the Crime Mob rap-a-long. Using Atlanta rap in an Atlanta-based movie is a heck of a thing to get right. |
| 167770 | Erin Allen | Tell-Tale TV | Fresh | 4/5 | 2022-09-06T21:00:59Z | 2022-09-06 21:00:59 | Trinitie Childs is the soul of Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul. Her journey is the heart of the story, and I would gladly honk my horn for her. |
| 167771 | K. Austin Collins | Rolling Stone | Fresh | — | 2022-09-06T20:33:22Z | 2022-09-06 20:33:22 | Honk for Jesus is a fine, often funny movie about the moral hypocrisy of the church and an even better movie about a woman forced to endure looking like a fool, an outright clown, because of her husband. |
| 167772 | Neal Pollack | Book & Film Globe | Rotten | 2/5 | 2022-09-06T18:41:16Z | 2022-09-06 18:41:16 | At moments, Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul. wants audiences to laugh at the excess and hypocrisy, but this situation isn’t actually funny, so instead it just feels uncomfortable. |
| 167773 | Natasha Alvar | Cultured Vultures | Rotten | 5.5/10 | 2022-09-06T11:03:44Z | 2022-09-06 11:03:44 | Regina Hall and Sterling K. Brown can make anything watchable. Their performances carry the film, but even they can't wrestle meaning from a movie that doesn't know what it's trying to convey. |
| 167774 | Matt Conway | Battle Royale With Cheese | Rotten | — | 2022-09-06T03:27:25Z | 2022-09-06 03:27:25 | Honk stumbles into several first feature pitfalls in its well-meaning pursuits. |
| 167775 | Joe Friar | Fort Worth Report | Fresh | 3/4 | 2022-09-05T16:43:24Z | 2022-09-05 16:43:24 | Hall and Brown knock it out of the ballpark with first-rate performances as they take on organized religion. The film’s serious overtone, pertinent to the story, isn’t a smooth transition from the comedy. |
| 167776 | Edwin Arnaudin | Asheville Movies | Rotten | D | 2022-09-05T15:56:45Z | 2022-09-05 15:56:45 | It has been a while since there's been a film this disorganized. |
| 167777 | Matt Pais | MattPais.com | Rotten | C | 2022-09-04T15:41:52Z | 2022-09-04 15:41:52 | Thinks it's both funny and heartbreaking but awkwardly mixes the messages and winds up with nothing. |
| 167778 | Paul Salfen | AMFM Magazine | Rotten | 5/10 | 2022-09-04T02:29:06Z | 2022-09-04 02:29:06 | The film is missing a spirit at the center of it and comes off as hollow, although somewhat entertaining. It's a missed opportunity to truly make a statement and hit people with any kind of good word, leaving you wondering who this movie is actually for. |
| 167779 | Ruth Maramis | FlixChatter Film Blog | Fresh | 2.5/5 | 2022-09-04T00:51:14Z | 2022-09-04 00:51:14 | This story is ripe for a biting satire but the way it's presented is more amusing than profound. Yet Hall and Brown gave such committed performances that make this a worthwhile watch. |
| 167780 | Jeffrey M. Anderson | Combustible Celluloid | Fresh | 3.5/4 | 2022-09-03T21:50:27Z | 2022-09-03 21:50:27 | 'Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.' is very funny, but it's also fearlessly confident in its stance on hypocrisy, refusing to buckle or compromise. And yet it's not so dark that we don't find humanity in its two main characters. |
| 167781 | Richard Crouse | Richard Crouse | Fresh | 3.5/5 | 2022-09-03T18:00:25Z | 2022-09-03 18:00:25 | Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul doesn’t hold back in its savage satire, but it is in the character work by Brown and Hall, that cuts the deepest. |
| 167782 | Monique Jones | Common Sense Media | Fresh | 5/5 | 2022-09-03T05:52:04Z | 2022-09-03 05:52:04 | Exceptional comedy skewers Black megachurch culture. |
| 167783 | Don Shanahan | 25YL (25 Years Later) | Fresh | 4/5 | 2022-09-03T04:15:56Z | 2022-09-03 04:15:56 | "Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul" has caricatures so believable that they transcend the winking-at-the-camera trope with vivid potency. |
| 167784 | Sarah Marrs | Lainey Gossip | Fresh | — | 2022-09-03T00:40:35Z | 2022-09-03 00:40:35 | Regina Hall is enough reason to watch Honk for Jesus. |
| 167785 | Brandon Zachary | CBR | Fresh | — | 2022-09-03T00:09:01Z | 2022-09-03 00:09:01 | ... One of the year's best films, a cutting satire that shifts effortlessly from hilarious to heartbreaking. |
| 167786 | Noah Gittell | Washington City Paper | Rotten | — | 2022-09-02T23:41:31Z | 2022-09-02 23:41:31 | Honk is the rare case in which the actors are too rich for the film, which makes the film too poor for us. |
| 167787 | Todd Jorgenson | Cinemalogue | Fresh | — | 2022-09-02T23:12:52Z | 2022-09-02 23:12:52 | Driven by deeply felt performances, this sharply observed satire captures the complex relationship between pastors, parishioners, and their higher power with an authenticity that facilitates its playful tweaking. |
| 167788 | Dann Gire | Chicago Daily Herald | Fresh | 3/5 | 2022-09-02T23:09:12Z | 2022-09-02 23:09:12 | Sterling K. Brown and Regina Hall pump their main couple so full of immediacy, nuance, and conflict that they -- along with their frequent forced laughter and fake smiles -- transform a middling movie into a more compelling experience. |
| 167789 | Kevin Carr | Fat Guys at the Movies | Fresh | 2.5/4 | 2022-09-02T23:02:10Z | 2022-09-02 23:02:10 | This skewers the hypocrisy replete in prosperity gospel with sharp performances, but it pulls a couple too many punches. |
| 167790 | Brian Lowry | CNN.com | Fresh | — | 2022-09-02T21:52:12Z | 2022-09-02 21:52:12 | Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul exhibits the strain of the magnification process -- as premises go, feeling a little light in terms of the collection plate. The central performances, however, make this dark satire awkwardly watchable. |
| 167791 | Filipe Freitas | Always Good Movies | Rotten | 2.5/5 | 2022-09-02T21:44:01Z | 2022-09-02 21:44:01 | What it lacks in vision, it narrowly makes up for with entertainment. |
| 167792 | John Serba | Decider | Fresh | — | 2022-09-02T21:37:52Z | 2022-09-02 21:37:52 | The comedy-mockumentary stuff aims at big targets while the trad-drama fodder narrows on character, the layers of which weigh heavy enough on Trinitie to make her a fraught, fascinating protagonist. |
| 167793 | Kristian M. Lin | Fort Worth Weekly | Rotten | — | 2022-09-02T21:31:56Z | 2022-09-02 21:31:56 | First-time filmmaker Adamma Ebo has put a solid premise into place, but as good as Brown and Hall are, they don’t have the instincts to pull off something like this. |
| 167794 | Tim Appelo | AARP Movies for Grownups | Fresh | 3/5 | 2022-09-02T20:54:37Z | 2022-09-02 20:54:37 | It’s a messy film but a lively slice of life. |
| 167795 | Keith Garlington | Arkansas Democrat-Gazette | Fresh | 88/100 | 2022-09-02T20:09:42Z | 2022-09-02 20:09:42 | Though a little messy, "Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul." holds together thanks to a filmmaker's keen understanding of her subject and two pitch-perfect leads. |
| 167796 | Chris Knight | National Post | Fresh | 3.5/5 | 2022-09-02T19:45:35Z | 2022-09-02 19:45:35 | The two leads fully commit to their cringe-worthy characters, with Hall’s best moments those of silent response, when she reacts to something Brown has said by somehow appearing completely appalled in her eyes. |
| 167797 | Odie Henderson | RogerEbert.com | Fresh | 3/4 | 2022-09-02T19:45:25Z | 2022-09-02 19:45:25 | When Ebo concentrates on the satirical aspects that mock the hypocrisy she’s exposing, Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul. hilariously fires on all cylinders. |
| 167798 | Andrea Thompson | Wealth of Geeks | Fresh | 7/10 | 2022-09-02T19:41:45Z | 2022-09-02 19:41:45 | There’s... a surprising amount of empathy for the couple who are living symbols of what they’re condemning. |
| 167799 | Brandon Avery | Just My Opinion Reviews | Fresh | 5/10 | 2022-09-02T19:08:39Z | 2022-09-02 19:08:39 | Great representation of mega churches good and bad, and Regina Hall is hilarious. Unfortunately that's not enough to save this film. Wanted to laugh more, but that became impossible after a while. |
| 167800 | Dana Han-Klein | We're Watching What?! | Fresh | — | 2022-09-02T17:01:27Z | 2022-09-02 17:01:27 | 3.7 / 5 A highly specific look at Southern Mega Church culture that might leave some audiences a bit left out of some of the references, but the power of the performances elevates this debut film from the Ebos. Looking forward to more from them. |
| 167801 | Stephanie Zacharek | TIME Magazine | Fresh | — | 2022-09-02T16:35:25Z | 2022-09-02 16:35:25 | The actors hold this story together: Brown flutters between wholly believable earnestness and snakelike artifice, often in a single moment. |
| 167802 | Ty Burr | Ty Burr's Watch List (Substack) | Rotten | 2/4 | 2022-09-02T16:26:10Z | 2022-09-02 16:26:10 | The two leads go at their roles with gusto, and I’m happy to watch Hall in anything, but unless you’re truly surprised by the idea that there’s corruption and hypocrisy in organized religion, this is a case of shooting Jesus fish in a barrel. |
| 167803 | Leah Greenblatt | Entertainment Weekly | Fresh | B+ | 2022-09-02T15:58:31Z | 2022-09-02 15:58:31 | [Ebo's] targets may be fairly soft, but her arrows don't miss much. And she has great, game actors to pull it off... |
| 167804 | Tom Santilli | Movie Show Plus | Rotten | C+ | 2022-09-02T15:58:13Z | 2022-09-02 15:58:13 | Like its subjects, it is missing a spiritual center and instead gets caught up in the flashiness of all the materialistic riches cluttering up its surroundings. |
| 167805 | Jen Chaney | New York Magazine/Vulture | Rotten | — | 2022-09-02T15:26:56Z | 2022-09-02 15:26:56 | Honk for Jesus gets as lost in its search for a message as Lee-Curtis and Trinitie do in their quest for redemption. It’s a film whose prayers never lead to an answer. |
| 167806 | Jack Hawkins | HeyUGuys | Fresh | 3/5 | 2022-09-02T15:22:43Z | 2022-09-02 15:22:43 | Ebo’s film is an adequate send up of commercial, megachurch religion. But it has neither the insight of a real documentary nor the excoriating wit of a George Carlin show. |
| 167807 | Andrew Lawrence | Guardian | Rotten | 1/5 | 2022-09-02T15:16:13Z | 2022-09-02 15:16:13 | At best, the film is an abstract commentary on a culture it doesn’t fully understand; at worst, it’s half-hearted creative license. |
| 167808 | Chase Hutchinson | Collider | Fresh | A- | 2022-09-02T15:07:00Z | 2022-09-02 15:07:00 | While it is undeniably a character study with both the actors at the very top of their game, the story itself is perfectly suited for them to shine. |
| 167809 | Jeff Mitchell | Art House Film Wire | Fresh | 3/4 | 2022-09-02T14:12:55Z | 2022-09-02 14:12:55 | Ebo makes bold choices that turn her straightforward comedy into an arthouse picture. |
| 167810 | Peter Travers | ABC News | Fresh | — | 2022-09-02T14:07:43Z | 2022-09-02 14:07:43 | The satire of commercialized religion is frustratingly hit-and-miss. But I believe in Regina Hall and Sterling K. Brown. As personality preachers riven by sins of the flesh and broken faith, these acting dynamos deserve a hearty hallelujah. |
| 167811 | Jonathan W. Hickman | The Newnan Times-Herald | Rotten | 5/10 | 2022-09-02T12:01:43Z | 2022-09-02 12:01:43 | ... a dull and muddled invective that should have hit hard instead of merely landing glancing blows against false prophets. |
| 167812 | Sarah-Tai Black | Los Angeles Times | Fresh | — | 2022-09-02T11:05:29Z | 2022-09-02 11:05:29 | A first feature that is fresh as it is concise, “Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.” presents a toothy vision of evangelical life without losing sight of the feeling that remains when the facade of it all finally falls. |
| 167813 | Rafer Guzman | Newsday | Fresh | 2.5/4 | 2022-09-02T10:22:58Z | 2022-09-02 10:22:58 | An uneven but engrossing comedy-drama in a mockumentary format. |
| 167814 | Mark Feeney | Boston Globe | Rotten | 2/4 | 2022-09-02T10:11:37Z | 2022-09-02 10:11:37 | Much of writer-director Adamma Ebo’s debut feature takes the form of a mockumentary. It’s a tired, even distracting device, especially when used erratically, as it is here. |
| 167815 | Allen Almachar | The MacGuffin | Fresh | A- | 2022-09-02T07:41:06Z | 2022-09-02 07:41:06 | Pride comes before the fall. In this instance, that happens in an extreme way. |
| 167816 | Patrick McDonald | WBGR-FM (93.7 FM - Monroe, WI) | Fresh | 3.5/5 | 2022-09-02T04:14:46Z | 2022-09-02 04:14:46 | Lotsa “shooting fish in a barrel” with its commentary on wealthy preachers, lifestyles and what types of scandals bring them down. It's the high level performances of Sterling K. Brown and Regina Hall that add a layer to the story and give it weight. |
| 167817 | Jeanne Kaplan | Kaplan vs. Kaplan | Fresh | — | 2022-09-02T04:05:02Z | 2022-09-02 04:05:02 | HONK FOR JESUS. SAVE YOUR SOUL. is not much of a comedy, but Ebo’s exposure of the hypocrisy is damning. Plus, she has two highly talented and accomplished actors to assist in her efforts. |
| 167818 | David Kaplan | Kaplan vs. Kaplan | Fresh | — | 2022-09-02T04:03:38Z | 2022-09-02 04:03:38 | Strangely compelling, primarily because of the stand-out performances of the two stars. |
| 167819 | Nell Minow | Movie Mom | Fresh | B | 2022-09-02T01:57:52Z | 2022-09-02 01:57:52 | It is easy to make characters like these into caricatures, but Ebo never lets them be less than fully human while never softening their flaws and failures. |
| 167820 | M.N. Miller | Ready Steady Cut | Fresh | 4.5/5 | 2022-09-02T01:52:24Z | 2022-09-02 01:52:24 | Regina Hall gives one of the year’s best performances in Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul, a blistering satire of how one person’s salvation can be another’s damnation. |
| 167821 | Allison Rose | FlickDirect | Fresh | 3.5/5 | 2022-09-02T01:51:56Z | 2022-09-02 01:51:56 | Hall and Brown are the shining lights in this pseudo comedy. |
| 167822 | Katie Walsh | Tribune News Service | Fresh | 2.5/4 | 2022-09-02T00:12:30Z | 2022-09-02 00:12:30 | A bracing and bold film that blends documentary-style filmmaking into a traditional narrative to create a bone-dry comedy and social commentary that’s one part “The Office,” and two parts “The Eyes of Tammy Faye.” |
| 167823 | Jason Escamilla | EskimoTV | Fresh | B- | 2022-09-02T00:10:07Z | 2022-09-02 00:10:07 | Unique insight not often seen in film regarding religious hypocrisy and fair comedy packaged briskly in 1 hour and 42 minutes. |
| 167824 | Robin Clifford | Reeling Reviews | Rotten | C- | 2022-09-02T00:07:15Z | 2022-09-02 00:07:15 | The biting satire of the original is lost amidst the Childs’ sense of entitlement and selfish opulence that, to them, is their god-given right, It is not. |
| 167825 | Christopher Llewellyn Reed | Film Festival Today | Rotten | 1/4 | 2022-09-01T23:20:12Z | 2022-09-01 23:20:12 | This is satire delivered via sledgehammer. |
| 167826 | Kyle Smith | National Review | Rotten | — | 2022-09-01T21:58:31Z | 2022-09-01 21:58:31 | May Mr. Brown and Ms. Hall quickly move on to more rewarding roles. The way this movie squanders their talents is a sin. |
| 167827 | James Verniere | Boston Herald | Rotten | C+ | 2022-09-01T21:34:04Z | 2022-09-01 21:34:04 | Holy Tammy Faye, surprisingly routine and predictable Christian megachurch scandal faux doc. Brown and Hall are talented actors. But the screenplay has nothing new on its mind. |
| 167828 | Collier Jennings | But Why Tho? | Fresh | 9/10 | 2022-09-01T20:26:57Z | 2022-09-01 20:26:57 | Offers a hilarious and often sobering look at the double-edged nature of religion and the lengths people will go to preserve their reputation. |
| 167829 | Frank Swietek | One Guy's Opinion | Rotten | C | 2022-09-01T20:15:05Z | 2022-09-01 20:15:05 | An idea that works for fifteen minutes can, unless carefully refashioned, be numbingly repetitive when stretched to a hundred, however strikingly appointed and energetically acted. |
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