The actual performance of the play goes on long enough to border on the polemical, but it’s not a terrible price to pay for the film’s melodramatic and quite powerful ending.

It's an original and uncompromising attempt to explore what really might happen, if the spirit of Jesus were to walk among us in these timid and materialistic times.

…Jesus of Montreal is a brilliant, intelligent film from when cinema was unafraid to tackle sacred cows…a contentious film, one that takes on Catholicism and roundly trashes the way that organised religion can blithely invert genuine humanistic values…

The whole film, apart from a few bits of keen social satire, is sophomoric and self-impressed in the worst way.