Netflix
Rating: 🎄🎄🎄🎄
Description: The power of faith, family, and community unite at Christmas to help a pastor rejuvenate a neglected church that’s home to an intrepid choir of angels.
Overall Review: Here’s another Christmas movie that wasn’t necessarily made for me, but that doesn’t mean I can’t recognize a good movie when I see one. Tyler Perry’s The Gospel of Christmas is a very good movie.
In fact, I’d go so far as to put it in the same conversation as The Preacher’s Wife when it comes to the overall quality of the production. And that’s not a comparison I make lightly. This movie has the kind of polish and confidence you should expect from Tyler Perry. It feels like a production made by people who know exactly what they’re doing, and it delivers the kind of quality that his name has come to represent.
Now, was it my favorite type of Christmas movie? Not particularly. But I’ve said before that there’s a difference between a movie I don’t personally love and a movie that isn’t very good. My preferences shouldn’t automatically cost a well-made movie a tree, especially when the filmmakers have clearly accomplished what they set out to do.
And that’s what I appreciated here. I might not have been the ideal audience, but I could still recognize the care that went into the finished product. The comparison to The Preacher’s Wife is probably the best way I can describe where this movie lands for me. It’s a Christmas film that deserves to be taken seriously on its own merits, not simply graded on the generous curve we sometimes apply to made-for-television holiday movies.
And considering how many Christmas movies I’ve watched this season that could barely manage to hold my attention, that’s saying something.
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