God's Not Dead: A Light in Darkness

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God's Not Dead: A Light in Darkness

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2018

1h 46m

Drama

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The Rev. Dave Hill faces an unexpected setback when his beloved church burns down -- prompting the officials at the adjoining university to try and kick his congregation off campus. Battle lines are quickly drawn between the church and the community as the reverend now finds himself at odds with his longtime friend -- the president of the school. Facing a legal battle, Hill soon seeks help from his estranged brother -- a big-city lawyer and atheist -- in a fight to help rebuild the church.

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Alissa Wilkinson

Vox

11/06/2018

The greatest offense of the God's Not Dead series may be its failure to imagine for its audience what a truly radical belief in a living God would look like.

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Steve Davis

Austin Chronicle

04/05/2018

2/5

To its credit, this third GND installment earnestly attempts to give some degree of lip service to diverging perspectives on the socio-religious-political scale without too much proselytizing, although there's never any question about whose side it's on.

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Jordan Hoffman

Guardian

03/30/2018

2/5

God's Not Dead: A Light in Darkness isn't just the conclusion of the most successful film trilogy made for the evangelical market, it's the first time a Facebook argument has metastasized into a movie.

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Richard Propes

TheIndependentCritic.com

09/09/2020

2.0/4.0

Less involving than its predecessor but by far the kindest and gentlest and most genuine of the three films.

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Jason Escamilla

EskimoTV

05/22/2019

C-

Very slow, too many sub plots, and boring. As a Christian myself, it was hard to believe everything that was taking place to become genuinely engaged.

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Javier Ocaña

El Pais (Spain)

01/18/2019

Of course, presenting their ecclesiastical characters as people without money and without influence is a fallacy, starting with the very existence of the film. [Full Review in Spanish]

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Jacqueline R

@WhatJustHappenedWOW May 30

It is a genuinely impressive feat when each new installment manages to get more inconsistent and morally bankrupt than the lost.

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Garrett B.

@garrettbowman Oct 27

One of most motivating movies ive seen. I really hope they keep making more like this.

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Alfred Junior T

@Lfr3d-junior-k4r4bo 03/23/2025

Demonstrates how even people that spread God's word are also not perfect and we must all learn to forgive

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Michael H

@RT40858993 08/25/2024

My favorite of the franchise so far. Shows the right and wrong way to show righteous anger. Brilliant in every way.

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Rosana B

@RosanaBotafogo 07/28/2024

Não tão emocionante e cativante quando os anteriores, provavelmente o alto deste é a atuação do reverendo, retratado aqui como homem comum, com suas dúvidas, revoltas e medos, em um determinado momento agride uma adolescente que incendiou sua igreja, importante também a relação entre os irmãos, que apesar de ateu demonstra todo o seu amor fraterno, quebrando paradigma preconceituoso acerca dos descrentes, o final abrupto me incomoda, a resolução num desfecho rápido e sem clímax, mas, gostosinho.

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bradley g

@ChildOfChrist94 06/08/2024

To each his own beliefs and views and feelings. The movie shows just how emotional even the "best" of us can get. We all are equally in need of salvation and forgiveness. The movie also touches again as the past on situations that are possible or do happen in the world we live in today. It's a movie that I would recommend and encourage discussion

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The Rev. Dave Hill faces an unexpected setback when his beloved church burns down -- prompting the officials at the adjoining university to try and kick his congregation off campus. Battle lines are quickly drawn between the church and the community as the reverend now finds himself at odds with his longtime friend -- the president of the school. Facing a legal battle, Hill soon seeks help from his estranged brother -- a big-city lawyer and atheist -- in a fight to help rebuild the church.

Director: Michael Mason
Producer: Michael Scott, David A.R. White, Elizabeth Travis, Alysoun Wolfe, Brittany Yost
Screenwriter: Michael Mason, Howard Klausner
Distributor: Pure Flix Entertainment
Production Co: Pure Flix Productions, GND Media Group
Rating: PG (Suggestive Material|Some Violence|Thematic Elements)
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Mar 30, 2018, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 7, 2018
Box Office (Gross USA): $5.7M
Runtime: 1h 46m