I don't want you to think this movie was boring; it was actually fascinating and actually required watching for every gay person everywhere!

| Jun 10, 2021

This propaganda style doc is too busy evoking intolerance (ironically) and fear mongering to provoke any rational analysis of the facts.

| Original Score: D | Aug 14, 2012

The film's powerful correlative lesson? That citizen journalism will play an important role in outing big-money political players who would like to silently put their stamp on laws from the capitalistic safety of the shadows.

| Original Score: B | Jul 26, 2010

From the hard facts of the church's PR wrangling and shady financial reporting, to the human fallout of their treatment of gays both inside and outside their flock, the filmmakers hammer hard on the Mormon church.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jul 18, 2010

The film also fails to take into account the many other factors in play during the 2008 election, narrowing events down to one all-encompassing Mormon-based explanation. 8 means well, but is too blinded by its own biases to do its cause justice.

| Original Score: 4.0/10 | Jul 15, 2010

The thing the film does best is to put a human face on the issue, to show us individuals (and couples) who were directly affected by the passing of Prop 8.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 14, 2010

Provocative and disturbing.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 2, 2010

It's marred by loaded language and a propagandistic tone that undercuts rather than promotes its purposes.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 24, 2010

[Cowan] expands his sad and furious homegrown film to record the misery of gay Mormons sometimes driven to suicide over being rejected by their church and families.

| Original Score: B- | Jun 23, 2010

Impassioned documentary chronicles the successful 2008 Mormon campaign to make gay marriage illegal in California.

| Jun 22, 2010

There is a message here of the necessity for tolerance, but 8: The Mormon Proposition would have been better had its makers presented it in a more consistent, artful fashion.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jun 22, 2010

An impassioned piece of timely agitprop.

Full Review | Jun 21, 2010

No matter what your stand is on gay marriage, you're bound to come out with a broader definition of family values.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 20, 2010

The highly emotional documentary is narrated by Dustin Lance Black, the screenwriter for Milk, who, like Mr. Cowan, is gay and grew up in a Mormon household.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 18, 2010

Instead of stooping to the level of Focus on the Family's misleading Prop. 8 ads, the pic damns the LDS Church not with lies, but with their own words.

| Jun 18, 2010

Combining investigative reporting with personal experience, Reed Cowan's impassioned documentary is unlikely to leave many dry eyes among its audience.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 18, 2010

8: The Mormon Proposition becomes a vital, important cry for an open dialogue. It's unfortunate that one side still refuses to come to the table.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 18, 2010

The lack of polish doesn't tarnish the truth of the story: how an institution claiming to speak for God turned its dogma into law, and shattered the lives of real, loving people in the process.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 18, 2010

A compelling look at how the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints operates in the political arena, even if audiences come away knowing that writer-producer-director Reed Cowan has told the story from his biased point of view.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 18, 2010

A great cautionary tale.

| Jun 18, 2010