“The Book of Clarence” is ripped, not from the bible, but from fractured memories of past Hollywood biblical epics. Cue the chariot races, the filthy beggars shoved aside and cursed for their ...

“The Book of Clarence” is not for purists or the holier ... One of the best gags involves a famous British actor playing a beggar who is somehow mistaken for Jesus. This could lead viewers ...

Giving the final days of Christ a contemporary, allegorical spin, “The Book of Clarence” is more concerned ... Dr.,” playing a homeless beggar who is repeatedly injured and robbed during ...

From Jeymes Samuel, the director of the overrated 2021 revisionist Western “The Harder They Fall” comes the revisionist biblical tale “The Book of Clarence,” and all that I can say is ...

That’s something British musician-turned-filmmaker Jeymes Samuel attempts to rectify in his offbeat messiah story “The Book of Clarence,” a newly invented tale that runs parallel to the life ...

The Book Of Clarence follows the down on his luck Jerusalemite who embarks on a misguided attempt to capitalize on the rise of celebrity and influence the Messiah for his own personal gain.

In Jeymes Samuel’s new movie “The Book of Clarence,” the writer and director tapped actors LaKeith Stanfield and RJ Cyler from his feature film debut “The Harder They Fall” to star in ...

It opens with a dramatic orchestral chord, precisely timed to arrive at the exact same moment as the opening tableau of a mass Crucifixion, hanging in the midst of which is a grimacing Clarence ...

(And, yes, racing chariots.) “The Book of Clarence” is something entirely different than these and dozens of other renderings. But it bears some passing resemblance to another contemporary ...

This is one of the questions that The Book of Clarence seeks to answer. Directed, written, and scored by Jeymes Samuel (The Harder They Fall), it’s a unique if tonally uneven mix of sincere ...

“The Book of Clarence” is not for purists or the holier ... One of the best gags involves a famous British actor playing a beggar who is somehow mistaken for Jesus. This could lead viewers ...

“The Book of Clarence” is at its most lively and enjoyable when Clarence — played by Stanfield with an easy, raffish charm that lightens the film’s more contrived subversions — is ...