The Star (2017 film)

==Reception==
===Box office===
''The Star'' has grossed $40.9 million in the United States and Canada, and $22 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $62.8 million, against a production budget of $20 million.<ref name=BOM/>

In the United States and Canada, ''The Star'' was released alongside ''[[Justice League (film)|Justice League]]'', ''[[Wonder (film)|Wonder]]'' and ''[[Roman J. Israel, Esq.]]'' and was projected to gross around $10 million from 2,800 theaters in its opening weekend. The film made $2.8 million on its first day.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2017/11/walden-media-the-star-the-wonder-release-on-same-day-1202202624/|title=The Tale Of Two Films: Walden Media's 'The Star' & 'Wonder' Bow On Same Day|last1=Busch|first1=Anita|date=November 10, 2017|access-date=November 14, 2017|archive-date=November 13, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171113162102/http://deadline.com/2017/11/walden-media-the-star-the-wonder-release-on-same-day-1202202624/|url-status=live}}</ref> It ended up grossing $9.8 million in its opening weekend, finishing 6th at the box office.<ref name=opening>{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2017/11/justice-league-opening-weekend-box-office-lower-thor-ragnarok-wonder-the-star-1202211094/|title='Justice League' Encounters Kryptonite At The B.O. With $93M+ Opening: Why The DC Movie Weakened|first=Anthony|last=D'Alessandro|website=[[Deadline Hollywood]]|date=November 19, 2017|access-date=November 19, 2017|archive-date=November 19, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171119211954/https://deadline.com/2017/11/justice-league-opening-weekend-box-office-lower-thor-ragnarok-wonder-the-star-1202211094/|url-status=live}}</ref>

===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>

===Accolades===
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" 
|-
! Award
! Category
! Recipients
! Result
|-
| [[Golden Globe Award]]s<ref name="auto"/>
| [[Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song|Best Original Song]]
| "The Star"
| {{nom}}
|-
| rowspan="2"| [[Annie Award]]s<ref>{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2017/12/annie-awards-nominations-coco-the-breadwinner-full-list-1202219487/|title=Annie Awards: Disney/Pixar's 'Coco' Tops Nominations|last=Hipes|first=Patrick|website=[[Deadline Hollywood]]|date=December 4, 2017|access-date=December 10, 2017|archive-date=December 5, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171205201622/http://deadline.com/2017/12/annie-awards-nominations-coco-the-breadwinner-full-list-1202219487/|url-status=live}}</ref>
| Best Storyboarding in an Animated Feature Production
| [[Louie del Carmen]]
| {{nominated}}
|-
| Best Editorial in an Animated Feature Production
| Pamela Ziegenhagen
| {{nominated}}
|-
| [[Heartland Film Festival|Heartland Film Festival 2017]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://heartlandfilm.org/tmpa/|title=Truly Moving Picture Award|publisher=Heartland film|access-date=December 11, 2017}}</ref>
| Truly Moving Picture Award 
| [[Timothy Reckart]]
| {{Won}}
|-
| [[Guild of Music Supervisors Awards]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2018/music/news/guild-of-music-supervisors-awards-nominations-1202661480/|title=Sufjan Stevens, 'Greatest Showman,' 'Girls' Among Guild of Music Supervisors Awards Nominees|work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=January 11, 2018|access-date=January 12, 2018|archive-date=January 30, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180130204222/https://variety.com/2018/music/news/guild-of-music-supervisors-awards-nominations-1202661480/|url-status=live}}</ref>
| Best Music Supervision for Film: Budgeted Under 25 Million Dollars
| Spring Aspers and Ron Fair
| {{nominated}}
|-
|}