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

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

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

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 hard-hitting expos of a shameful episode.

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

As an exposé, there could hardly be a stronger case for ensuring and strengthening the separation of church and state -- or a stronger message to gay people as to the magnitude of the challenge to win equal rights.

| Jun 18, 2010

8: The Mormon Proposition is far from perfect but that doesn't make it any less moving or informative, and for those on both sides of the argument this is one motion picture that should be required viewing for all.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 17, 2010

It seems impossible that anyone will have their minds changed or even piqued by watching this film. No one will really listen to The Mormon Proposition because we've heard it all before.

| Jun 17, 2010

It's so one-sided you hardly care after a while that the side it's on is so clearly the right one.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 17, 2010

Cowan and Greenstreet are preaching to the choir.

Full Review | Jun 17, 2010

The movie is shrill even by advocacy-doc standards.

| Jun 17, 2010

Preaching to the converted, a sobering but formulaic study of church activism against gay rights is more therapeutic than astute.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 17, 2010

The filmmakers fail to settle on one approach, so the disparate parts of this far-too-short feature (it's barely a Dateline special) cancel one another out.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 16, 2010