"The Unbreakable Boy" was completed three years ago, and that means the Zachary Levi we see in this movie is closer to the brightly grinning earnest man-child who was so appealing in the first "Shazam!

The thing about separating the art from the artist is that people are typically a lot more inclined to do so if the “art” isn’t a generic piece of faith-based schlock, and the “artist” hasn’t made a variety of disqualifying comments that pertain directly to the subject of their latest film.

Based on a true story, the movie centers on a father whose world is upended when his older son is diagnosed with autism and brittle bone disease.