6.3
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Guns & Moses (2025)
Guns & Moses (2025)
Overview
Guns & Moses is a 2025 faith-based crime thriller directed by Salvador Litvak. Mark Feuerstein plays Rabbi Mo Zaltzman, a Hasidic leader in a high-desert town who becomes an unlikely gunslinger after his community suffers a violent attack. Neal McDonough portrays Mayor Donovan Kirk, Dermot Mulroney plays Alan Rosner, and Christopher Lloyd appears as Sol Fassbinder.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Political: Leans Right
Diversity: Moderate
Family Values: Strongly Traditional
Judaism: Positive
Viewer Rating
6.3
Overview
Guns & Moses is a 2025 faith-based crime thriller directed by Salvador Litvak. Mark Feuerstein plays Rabbi Mo Zaltzman, a Hasidic leader in a high-desert town who becomes an unlikely gunslinger after his community suffers a violent attack. Neal McDonough portrays Mayor Donovan Kirk, Dermot Mulroney plays Alan Rosner, and Christopher Lloyd appears as Sol Fassbinder.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Primary
The narrative centers on a rabbi's adoption of firearms and investigative action to shield his community from violence, highlighting individual responsibility and armed resistance as key to security amid threats.
Authentic Jewish representation anchors the cast, with the Orthodox rabbi and family portrayed by actors of matching backgrounds. Supporting roles incorporate Latina and Black performers for added ethnic variety. The plot engages antisemitic threats via a white nationalist figure but pivots to economic motives, tempering any sharp critique of traditional identities.
Secondary
Traditional family values emerge through the rabbi's portrayal as a devoted husband and father who prioritizes protecting his wife and five children amid escalating dangers. Shared faith practices and mutual support underscore the strength of their Orthodox household, endorsing distinct parental roles and spiritual grounding in family life.
The film centers the Orthodox Jewish community as resilient and morally grounded, with the rabbi's investigation highlighting faith's integration with protective action against violence. Jewish practices and family dynamics receive sympathetic treatment amid thriller elements. Antisemitic threats are subverted to underscore community strength rather than vulnerability.
The film contains no identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes.
The film offers no portrayal of transsexual characters or themes. Its narrative examines antisemitism and faith in a Jewish community under threat, focusing on a rabbi's transformation without any exploration of transgender identity.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
Guns & Moses presents original characters in an invented narrative about a modern rabbi and his community, with no adaptations of prior canon or historical figures that alter established genders.
Guns & Moses presents an original story with newly created characters, including a Hasidic rabbi and town officials, lacking any prior canonical or historical racial depictions to alter.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
5.4
6.2
Critic Ratings
7.3
N/A
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