Name : Nick Schager / Alias : Variety
A torturous exercise in one-note proselytizing.

Name : Dave White / Alias : TheWrap
The audience is encouraged to assume that the widespread persecution of all Christians is at hand. In Arkansas.

Name : Vadim Rizov / Alias : AV Club
From its lecture on the conservative canard that separation of church and state is a myth on down, God's Not Dead 2 is a movie for Ralph Reed's Moral Majority, with all the entangled political baggage that comes with it.

Name : Bill Zwecker / Alias : Chicago Sun-Times
The agenda here is front and center from start to finish, and while the actors do a yeoman's job in presenting their characters with aplomb, the entire film simply comes off as a two-hour, jazzed-up movie version of a sermon.

Name : Ignatiy Vishnevetsky / Alias : AV Club
A deranged melodrama where any sense of soapy, campy fun is undercut by the preachy, self-serious tone.

Name : Rafer Guzman / Alias : Newsday
A self-aggrandizing sermon that preaches only to the faithful.

Name : Alonso Duralde / Alias : TheWrap
Wherever you fall on the spectrum of spirituality, the only answer to "Do You Believe?" is "No."

Name : Scott Foundas / Alias : Variety
More professionally produced and acted than the indiegelical norm, but only fitfully engaging on a dramatic level and entirely hermetic on a theological one.