NY Times review of "The Passion of Christ" (registration required). I particularly liked this line:

"With its laborious build-up to its orgasmic spurtings of blood and other bodily fluids, Mr. Gibson's film is constructed like nothing so much as a porn movie, replete with slo-mo climaxes and pounding music for the money shots. Of all the "Passion" critics, no one has nailed its artistic vision more precisely than Christopher Hitchens, who on "Hardball" called it a homoerotic "exercise in lurid sadomasochism" for those who "like seeing handsome young men stripped and flayed alive over a long period of time.""

I think one of the scarier societal responses to this film is the instance of (many) parents taking children to see it. Yet the experience of seeing a woman's breast flashed during the Super Bowl apparently (according to many of these "Christians") will scar children for life. Yeah, okay.