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Release Date: February 25th, 2004

Running Time: 2 hrs. 6 min.

U.S. Box Office: $370,270,943

Rating: R for for sequences of graphic violence. (original).

Directed By: Mel Gibson

Starring: Jim Caviezel, Maia Morgenstern, Monica Bellucci, Mattia Sbragia, Hristo Shopov

TVB Rank: 9.500 Critics Reviews: 7 out of 10

Boston Globe If Passion is powerful...it is only through the bludgeoning, forensic intensity with which the film dwells on Christ's suffering. Ty Burr

filmcritic.com ...an exquisite spiritual masterpiece... Sean O'Connell

San Francisco Chronicle The Passion of the Christ should have left audiences in a state of exaltation. Instead it just leaves audiences exhausted. Mick LaSalle

Seattle Post-Intelligencer ...strikes me as being much less faithful to the Gospels than the earlier Christ movies. William Arnold

USA Today ...there is enlightenment — even stark poetry — in The Passion. Claudia Puig

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