| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 18, 2011

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 17, 2011

Jacoby and Carroll make their case skillfully, carefully excerpting key scenes from Lenny (with Dustin Hoffman doing a Lenny Bruce monologue on anti-Jewish prejudice) and The Robe.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 29, 2008

Constantine's Sword speaks provocatively to history and our moment.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 30, 2008

The breadth of Carroll's scholarship and the depth of his religious understanding strengthen his assertion that our misadventure in Iraq is the beginning of a new holy war.

| May 30, 2008

But I ramble. So does the movie, in an insidiously fascinating way.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 30, 2008

Whatever your persuasion, you'll walk out enriched.

| Original Score: B+ | May 23, 2008

The movie covers an immense amount of shameful historical ground, but the soft-spoken Carroll's mission is less about winning an argument than prodding true believers

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 25, 2008

The movie raises important issues, but it provides few answers as it moves along in uninspired, talking-heads fashion.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 18, 2008

At once enthralling and troubling...does about as good a job as you could hope of distilling a 750-page historical examination of religious zealotry and power into 95 swift minutes.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 18, 2008

Riddled with historical distortions, at least some of which seem agenda-driven, perhaps even more or less deliberate.

| Apr 18, 2008

Oren Jacoby's magnificent, thought-provoking essay film Constantine's Sword examines the unholy alliance between organized religion and military power.

| Apr 16, 2008

[A] searching, intellectually lively documentary.

Full Review | Apr 16, 2008