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‘Carpenter’s Son’ an uninspired origin story
Los Angeles Times
|November 17, 2025
Nicolas Cage and Noah Jupe star in an inept horror film about Jesus’ youth.
What would Jesus do if his early years were told as an unremarkable horror film?
It would probably be another opportunity to forgive, along with the very easy act of forgetting “The Carpenter's Son,” a dingy alt-biblical slog that doesn’t even have the kitschy sense to use Nicolas Cage properly as a paranoid Joseph who isn’t sure if his kid comes from the good place or the bad one.
Writer-director Lotfy Nathan's inspiration is an apocryphal 2nd century text called the Infancy Gospel of Thomas, which purports to describe the incident-filled childhood of a temperamental Jesus. It's never been widely accepted Christian canon, but there’s no reason why what isn’t holy scripture couldn't be a holy-moly script.
This story is from the November 17, 2025 edition of Los Angeles Times.
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