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Releasing on Jan 12, 2024
  • 2024
  • PG-13
  • 2 h 16 m
  • 2024
  • PG-13
  • 2 h 16 m

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

  • 2024
  • PG-13
  • 2 h 16 m
  • 2024
  • PG-13
  • 2 h 16 m
The Book of Clarence
Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 5 Critic Reviews
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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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83
Oct 12, 2023
Jeymes Samuel is a master of all trades who can craft character-driven arcs with fun action-packed sequences all against a beautiful score. No actor misses a beat and it confirms LaKeith Stanfield remains not just a brilliant actor but a true movie star.
By Emma Kiely FULL REVIEW
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Oct 13, 2023
Giving the final days of Christ a contemporary, allegorical spin, The Book of Clarence is more concerned with entertainment value than delivering a sermon. The results are tonally erratic, but absolutely interesting, at the very least.
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Oct 12, 2023
Stanfield, on double duty as both Clarence and his straitlaced disciple twin Thomas, is a charismatic lead in a cast that boasts more than one enjoyable cameo. Yet you can’t help concluding that Samuel’s laudable ambition to give his mischievous comedy a deeper resonance was too heavy a cross to bear.
By Neil Smith 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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Oct 18, 2023
Once Samuel stops trying to modernize the genre with layers of music-video style and comedic irony, his film becomes surprisingly effective––it just takes a little while to get there.
By Alistair Ryder FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Legendary Entertainment, Legendary Studios, Luca Severi Production Group, Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE), TriStar Pictures, Westbrook Studios
Release Date Jan 12, 2024
Duration 2 h 16 m
Rating PG-13
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Website https://www.thebookofclarence.movie/
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