[sakic]

The disparity I am refering to, is the disparity between the rave reviews of "the passion" by non-Christians who thought it was a master-piece and the reviews of this Lady and a few others that thought it was the worst movie ever.

This disparity happens with every single movie, religious subject or not.

It is a little hard for many to believe that there was no political or religious bias interfering with their reviews when they say it is so horrible and bad, because it is so at odds with other reviewers.

Of course there was a bias by some reviewers against this film. What troubles me is that most here don't consider the religious bias affecting other reviewers into giving good reviews. Bias is in all of us. It's not a one way street.

Another way to put it, I have never seen a movie where Ebert and Roeper, or Ebert and Siskel raved so much about how good a movie was, only to have other reviewers think it was completely dreadful.

Then you might want to read more reviews because that is just flat out wrong.

Maybe you can show me an example. Has there been another movie where Ebert and his partner have both given the movie 4 stars and other reviewers have given it a one star?

One Example Of Reviews All Over the Place

By the way, This is probably a good place to investigate your question.

[GROOVY]

http://www.metacritic.com/video/titles/badlieutenant/

Not a good example to prove your point since the lowest star rating on that film was a 2 star. Also I meant to say, find one that had Ebert AND partner giving it a 4 star and raving and others giving it a one star.. If it is as common as you say, then finding one example should be easy.

What troubles me is that most here don't consider the religious bias affecting other reviewers into giving good reviews

Sure some people may boost the reviews because of their bias. But with this Movie, there is enough non-christian praise to get a sense that this movie is not a complete disaster as some would like us to believe. Again the wide divergence points out the bias, and the non-christian praise points out what side the bias is on.