Too busy to post today. I suggest David Edelstein's ruthlessly funny writeup on that movie everyone is talking about.

The lashes of the soldiers begin about 15 minutes into the film; by the time Jesus is dragged into the presence of the Roman governor Pontius Pilate, his face has already been smashed to a pulp ... While Pilate wrinkles his forehead, searching his tender conscience, sundry Jews lean into the camera and hiss or keen through rotted teeth.

I know, it sounds like a Monty Python movie. You're thinking there must be something to The Passion of the Christ besides watching a man tortured to death, right? Actually, no: This is a two-hour-and-six-minute snuff movie— The Jesus Chainsaw Massacre—that thinks it's an act of faith.

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