Gleiberman on The Nativity Story

I adore film critic Owen Gleiberman, who does the occasional piece on NY1:

“The Nativity Story” isn't inept, but it's about as dramatic as a wall calendar. When the dastardly egotist King Herod orders Mary and Joseph to return to the place of their birth, the couple, now united, must journey to Bethlehem. Yet that's all that happens. They ride. It's a trek to test the patience of the faithful, relieved only by the three magi, who are like infomercial astrologers. “The Nativity Story” is a film of tame picture-book sincerity, but that's not the same thing as devotion. The movie is too tepid to feel, or see, the light.