Unfortunately, it rarely works that way. Christians protested Martin Scorsese's 1988 movie "The Last Temptation of Christ" based on hearsay, scandalized at the idea that the movie portrayed a sexualized Jesus. Had they bothered to watch the film, they would have learned that, in adapting Nikos Kazantzakis' novel, Scorsese was presenting the Jesus as taught in the Gospels — fully divine and fully human.
((snip)) That kind of inquisitiveness doesn't seem to be the kind of approach that anyone wants to hear. But it's the only path to the kind of discovery that might deepen one's faith, both in religion and the movies that attempt to examine it. Almost 30% of the article is devoted to the (anti)Christian film that the media adores and has promoted and advertised endlessly for 26 years so far, a movie that has only grossed 8.4 million dollars, yet which is treated as the first or second top Christian film ever made, by the media.