15 Hollywood Classics That Reflect a Different Era, Ranked

The Passion Of The Christ (2004)

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Although The Passion Of The Christ was acclaimed as a harrowing depiction of Jesus’s final days, some critics at the time accused the film of carrying an anti-Semitic tone with the framing of its Jewish characters.

But while ABC News reported that director Mel Gibson’s statements at the time reflected some potentially plausible deniability for any such bias, his own remarks during his arrest two years later stripped away this benefit of the doubt.