Actually, I think the fact that it opened at the Vatican shows that the Church has no problem with it.
It's a reflection, a meditation on the life of the Virgin and the events surrounding the Nativity, not a theological treatise or even an historical description (although I thought the recreation of the life of a 1st century Jew was very well done and showed a lot of research). I liked the film and thought of it as the kind of meditation one does when one prays the Rosary, recreating the scene and filling in details about aspects that may not necessarily be recounted in detail in the Gospels.
This is something people have always done with the Nativity story, in particular, and it's the source of all art on the subject, which naturally examines it from the time and the ideas circulating in the world at the time that the artist produces the work. And this is art, not a doctrinal statement, and I thought that it does what art is supposed to do: make one think and wonder.
Amen to that. If anything it makes you go home and read the gospel of Luke. I saw the movie and liked it very much. Of course there will always be things in any movie that you wished had been done better. But going to the movies is not what makes ones faith. But we can be very grateful for a movie to come out like this at Christmas! And pray enough people will see the movie and send hollywood a message. We want more movies like this please.!