Six years ago the movie The Passion of the Christ was released on Ash Wednesday, February 25, 2004. The film received mixed reviews from critics.  Critics praised the performance of Jim Caviezel as Jesus.  The June 2006 issue of Entertainment Weekly named The Passion of the Christ the most controversial film of all time.  Syndicated Film critic Roger Ebert gave the film four out of four stars.  However, reviewer David Edelstein called it "a two-hour-and-six-minute snuff movie" (a motion picture genre that depicts the actual death or murder of a person or people, for the express purpose of distribution and entertainment or financial exploitation).  The New York Daily News’ Jami Bernard called it the most virulently anti-Semitic movie made since the German propaganda films of World War II; and Rotten Tomatoes (and aggregator movie review web site) reported that 50 percent of critics gave the film positive reviews; with the consensus that ‘the graphic details of Jesus' torture make the movie tough to sit through and obscure whatever message it is trying to convey.   read more