Netflix’s family-unfriendly ‘Mary’ fails to inspire in a pointless Biblical epic

Film review: ‘Mary’ by D.J. Caruso, ★★☆☆☆

Joseph (Ido Tako) and Mary (Noa Cohen) with the baby Jesus cross the desert in a scene from the 2024 Netflix epic “Mary.”

The better Biblical epic films and TV shows frequently take one of two approaches to flesh out a story that may be derived from only a chapter or two of scriptural text. One is to serve as something like a Bible commentary, offering i…