The Star (2017 film)

===Critical response===
On review aggregation website [[Rotten Tomatoes]], the film has an average rating by critics of 42% based on 52 reviews, with an average rating of 4.94/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "''The Star'' may not leave audiences singing 'Hallelujah', but its offbeat yet sincere approach to the nativity story makes for acceptably diverting holiday viewing."<ref>{{cite web|title=''The Star'' (2017)|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_star_2017|publisher=[[Rotten Tomatoes]]|access-date=December 6, 2017|archive-date=November 17, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171117225355/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_star_2017/|url-status=live}}</ref> On [[Metacritic]], which assigns a normalized rating to reviews, the film has a [[weighted average]] score of 42 out of 100, based on 12 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.metacritic.com/movie/the-star |title=''The Star'' reviews |publisher=[[Metacritic]] |access-date=November 17, 2017 |archive-date=November 15, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171115205924/http://www.metacritic.com/movie/the-star |url-status=live }}</ref> Audiences polled by [[CinemaScore]] gave the film an average grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale.<ref name=opening/>

''[[The A.V. Club]]''{{'}}s [[Ignatiy Vishnevetsky]] criticized ''The Star'' as a "rote cartoon feature" existing for purely commercial reasons: "...even the kid-friendliest, Sunday-school-iest kind of religious art can't spring from religion alone; it needs artistry, too. Otherwise, you end up with a generic product aimed at a market segment who'll buy anything as long as it seems sufficiently churchy."<ref>{{cite web |last1=Vishnevetsky |first1=Ignatiy |date=November 16, 2017 |title=The animated trifle The Star passes the Nativity through its ass |url=https://www.avclub.com/the-animated-trifle-the-star-passes-the-nativity-throug-1820488093 |website=[[The A.V. Club]] |access-date=November 16, 2017 |archive-date=November 17, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171117022032/https://www.avclub.com/the-animated-trifle-the-star-passes-the-nativity-throug-1820488093 |url-status=live }}</ref>