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Jesus Christ, Superstar

Jesus Christ Superstar

1973

Norman Jewison

Ted Neeley, Carl Anderson, Yvonne Elliman, Barry Dennen ...

6.8

8,950

Musical Based on a concept album project written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, and the subsequent long-running Broadway performance, this film tells the story of the final 6 days in the life of Jesus Christ through the troubled eyes of Judas Iscariot. Too often mis-labeled a musical, this film is a "rock opera." There are no spoken lines, everything is sung.

	Media	Author	Review
		AV Club	"However dated stylistically (everybody’s dressed, to put it baldly, like hippies) it remains immensely powerful."
		Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"A bright and sometimes breathtaking retelling of the rock opera of the same name"
		Don Druker Chicago Reader	"The music quickly becomes monotonous, and the operatic dialogue is silly right from the start—but Carl Anderson as Judas and Joshua Mostel as an unbelievably campy King Herod almost make this 1973 film worth sitting through."
		Variety Staff Variety	"Norman Jewison's film version of the 1969 legit stage project in a paradoxical way is both very good and very disappointing at the same time"
		David Parkinson Empire	"If it weren't for Lost Horizon, this would have gone down in history as the Worst Musical of 1973"

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