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Summary Streetwise but down-on-his-luck, Clarence (LaKeith Stanfield) is struggling to find a better life for his family, while fighting to free himself of debt. Captivated by the power and glory of the rising Messiah and His apostles, he risks everything to carve his own path to a divine life, and ultimately discovers that the redemptive power ...

Directed By: Jeymes Samuel

Written By: Jeymes Samuel

In Theaters Now
  • 2024
  • PG-13
  • 2 h 9 m
  • 2024
  • PG-13
  • 2 h 9 m
The Book of Clarence
Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 23 Critic Reviews
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User Score Generally Favorable Based on 13 User Ratings
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Summary Streetwise but down-on-his-luck, Clarence (LaKeith Stanfield) is struggling to find a better life for his family, while fighting to free himself of debt. Captivated by the power and glory of the rising Messiah and His apostles, he risks everything to carve his own path to a divine life, and ultimately discovers that the redemptive power ...

Directed By: Jeymes Samuel

Written By: Jeymes Samuel

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 23 Critic Reviews
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57% Positive
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4% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 23 Critic Reviews
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91
Jan 11, 2024
It’s a well-made, witty movie that manages to send up some of the tropes of organized religion while simultaneously signaling that it is firmly on the side of the believers, and also managing not to annoy any atheists in the house. Jesus, it’s good.
By Chris Knight FULL REVIEW
80
Jan 11, 2024
The sincerity with which The Book of Clarence approaches its story, combined with its sheer boldness, will cement Samuel as a filmmaker who soars to unimaginable heights.
By Nadir Samara FULL REVIEW

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70
Jan 10, 2024
The Book of Clarence is aspirational, unique, moving, funny, weird, and very shaggy. But it's better to have a picture's cup runneth over than to present us with an empty chalice.
By Witney Seibold FULL REVIEW
63
Jan 11, 2024
The more this filmmaker can learn about matching his musical taste and invention with cinematic tonal range and control worthy of those sounds, the harder we’ll fall for whatever he does next.
By Michael Phillips FULL REVIEW
60
Oct 12, 2023
Stanfield is a performer whom you can’t help warming to, although here, as sometimes in the past, I found myself wanting him to bring something extra in the third act, some new level of energy or anger. But maybe it would be wrong here.
By Peter Bradshaw FULL REVIEW
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Jan 11, 2024
As an homage to biblical epics of yesteryear, The Book Of Clarence doesn’t have enough grand drama or thrilling set pieces. As a spoof of such films, it loses its nerve and never goes for the full joke. And as a straightforward story of belief, it relies too much on familiar tropes. Thus it ends up being too little of this and that and not enough of its own.
By Murtada Elfadl FULL REVIEW
38
Jan 10, 2024
The Book of Clarence, the religious epic by multi-hyphenate talent Jeymes Samuel, is a handsomely crafted picture that simply loses the plot.
By Robert Daniels FULL REVIEW
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Production Company Legendary Entertainment, Legendary Studios, Luca Severi Production Group, Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE), TriStar Pictures
Release Date Jan 12, 2024
Duration 2 h 9 m
Rating PG-13
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Website https://www.thebookofclarence.movie/
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