Dan Partland’s fierce, fighting-trim [film] asks, what happens when faith becomes a weapon in the form of Christian nationalism, and what is endangered then. (Religion; nation.)

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jul 4, 2024

God & Country preaches to the choir, but with a call to action...

| Mar 27, 2024

It’s commendable that the film takes this problem seriously and practically, providing a sense of hope for those of us given to despair.

| Feb 27, 2024

Does Partland's God & Country preach to the secular choir? Not entirely. Some of the best voices in this volatile documentary are raised by people of faith...

| Feb 21, 2024

Impassioned but lucid and not hysterical.

| Feb 21, 2024

The Body Snatcher movies are scary enough already but to witness the history of systematic brainwashing coarse through politics and the distortion of religion is a reality it cannot match.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 19, 2024

Polemics aside, this very worthy, frightening and effective documentary is an illuminating explanation of the who, the what and the why of this national trend towards an increasingly right wing ideology.

| Feb 16, 2024

We need a deeper and more complex conversation about evangelicals and politics. For all its cinematic brilliance, God & Country just preaches to the choir.

| Feb 16, 2024

The point of the film isn’t to disparage Christianity. Through news footage and interviews with prominent Christians, he demonstrates that those professing Christian nationalism are more interested in political power than in the teachings of Jesus.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 16, 2024

In the end, however, the unpleasant truth is that there's not a lot to see here that you can't absorb by going down a Wikipedia rabbit hole or watching "The Daily Show" or "Last Week Tonight" or Rachel Maddow.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 16, 2024

This is less a movie that is "preaching to the choir" than it is a lesson aimed at a frustrated student body.

| Original Score: B+ | Feb 16, 2024

[T]he film ... serves as a warning about what could come in the future.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 16, 2024

A bracing primer on the rise of this political movement that should thoroughly scare the large majority of American adults who don’t embrace it.

| Feb 15, 2024

One of the great strengths of Partland’s film … is his series of interviews with conservative commentators and evangelical leaders who have seen the light and refuse to be a part of white Christian nationalism.

| Feb 15, 2024

... Partland deftly walks a path that certainly paints the former president and the current Conservative movement as ignorant of history, the law, and faith without ever being denigrating to the faithful.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 15, 2024

The film’s insights about the role of religion in politics feel especially well-informed because many of its commentators draw on their own personal and professional experiences with the Christian church. They’re believers, too, and they’re worried.

| Feb 15, 2024

Those who will actually seek out this movie won’t be shocked to learn of its revelations, but the movie still gets its point across and serves as a call to arms about the ramifications of what happens when we fail to separate church and state.

| Original Score: B | Feb 14, 2024

Rather than just preaching to the choir it’s the type that could scare them shitless.

| Feb 14, 2024

What is happening to the separation of church and state in the United States? One of the fundamental tenets of our constitution is being tested by the rise of Christian Nationalism, according to a new documentary, GOD & COUNTRY.

| Feb 13, 2024

The hypocrisy of today’s Republican Party has been rampant dating back to the beginning of the Trump era. GOD & COUNTRY exposes the same sentiment within the far-right clergy, a.k.a. evangelical America.

| Feb 13, 2024