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The first “God's Not Dead” was an amateurly made, poorly executed attempt at showing what it means for Christians to defend our faith. The next three movies all waded into the metaphorical pool of Christian Nationalistic ideology. “Gods Not Dead: In God We Trust” dives into that pool head first.“In God We Trust” is the culmination of a series gone off the theological and political deep end. This is the least subtle movie in the entire God’s Not Dead franchise. The dialogue is made entirely of Christofascist buzzwords and bible verses, the plot is inconceivable, the acting is poor, and it looks and feels as though it was thrown together as fast as possible in an attempt to stay relevant to the political climate of our time.

Biopics often go one of two storytelling directions: exploratory or celebratory. “Reagan” is celebratory to an almost comical extent. If you watched this movie without any prior knowledge of who Ronald Reagan was, you would think he was a perfect man (spoiler: he wasn’t). Starring Dennis Quaid as the 40th president of the United States, “Reagan” is one of those rare types of biopic that feels satirical even though it was made entirely in earnest. Historical inaccuracies abound, crucial mistakes from Ronald Reagan’s presidency were ignored entirely, and any element of Ronald Reagan's life that could’ve added interesting drama is sidelined by him complaining about communism and saving freedom by ending the cold war. “Reagan” accomplishes what it sets out to do. The problem is, what it sets out to do is not what a biopic is supposed to do.

The most incredible thing about this movie is that the entire film shifts from being a fun children's musical to a rat-holocaust drama about thirty minutes in. Also, Sigmund Freud gets mentioned twice in one kids movie, which has never happened and will never happen again.