The Girl Who Believes in Miracles

6/22/2026

The Girl Who Believes in Miracles (2021) embodies the worst vices of faith-based drama in particular and religion in general. It’s not just that the title character goes around resurrecting dead animals like a Traveling Pet Sematary and restoring sight to the blind like a modern-day Simon Magus. It’s mostly that co-writer/director Richard Correll handles this material with a literalism of biblical proportions. This is a movie that condones kidnapping a girl with a brain tumor from the hospital, driving her through a storm to a secluded spot in the woods, and praying for a miracle. From what I’ve seen on TV, hospitals have chapels — why not pray there? Despite being omnipresent, this particular place in the forest apparently has “some special meaning” for God. Maybe He has a better sign