The Post-Gazette reviews movies from a family perspective:

'The Nativity Story'

Rated: PG.

Suitable for: Children roughly 8 and up.

What you should know: This is a retelling of the story surrounding Christ's birth. It is respectful, realistic and serious.

Language: None.

Sexual situations and nudity: The circumstances of Mary's pregnancy are the subject of scorn and whispers. Two episodes of childbirth are depicted, with discretion, as is a circumcision.

Violence/scary situations: The movie deals with (but stops short of showing) King Herod's order that all male children under the age of 2 be killed. Marauding tax collectors take a young woman whose family cannot pay its taxes. Victims of crucifixion are shown, briefly, and an animal is being led to slaughter. A donkey is spooked by a snake and tosses a very pregnant Mary into the river. The pain of labor and childbirth are dramatized.

Drug and alcohol use: Nothing notable.