Why bother with horror films when you can see this?

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 23, 2007

Some lively material - but nothing new.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 23, 2007

This unabashedly liberal documentary tries to redress the balance by giving the rest of America a wake up call: not all scary fundamentalists come strapped with explosives.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 23, 2007

A brave, thoughtful documentary.

| Original Score: 4/6 | Nov 22, 2007

Funny, sad and horrifying. Anti-fundamentalist rather than anti-Christian, this deserves to preach to more than just the converted.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 3, 2007

No matter your religious or political affiliation (or lack thereof), this supremely even-handed documentary from Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady is cinematic dynamite.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 13, 2006

Perhaps indoctrination is in the eye of the beholder. But one thing is certain: All Christians aren't the same. I'm one, and I found this film to be saddening, not heartening.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 13, 2006

I spent a lot of years studying the teachings of Jesus in Catholic grammar school, and I think Jesus would be appalled by what goes on in the these camps.

Full Review | Oct 9, 2006

Jesus Camp doesn't trivialize or exploit its child subjects nor their spirituality; for the most part, the film maintains a patient, unobtrusive outlook from the D.A. Pennebaker school.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 8, 2006

Jesus Camp seems to me most interesting (and poignant) as a portrait of denied and even desecrated childhood.

| Oct 6, 2006

On one level, the documentary Jesus Camp is all about evangelical Christians keeping up with the terrorists.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 6, 2006

Jesus Camp does what documentaries ought to do: It poses serious questions, then steps out of the argument.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 6, 2006

One of those documentaries so well crafted you should wonder what was left on the cutting-room floor.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 6, 2006

It might be too much to ask for a little more diversity in the movie's subjects. Aren't there any boring, conventionally innocent kids marching in God's army?

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 6, 2006

You don't have to be extreme or liberal to be shaken by Jesus Camp.

| Original Score: B | Oct 5, 2006

As a documentary, Jesus Camp could lose its haunted-house score and contrapuntal Air America refrains and still deliver its message...

| Original Score: B+ | Oct 4, 2006

It stares into the face of faith run amok, and for those willing to follow its gaze, it provides sad revelations.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 29, 2006

Filmmakers Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady lump all evangelicals together, failing to distinguish the more fundamentalist Pentecostals, and they've clumsily inserted some unnecessary editorializing from talk-radio host Mike Papantonio.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 29, 2006

No, belief I cannot quibble with. What I can complain about is outright stupidity.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 29, 2006

Whether you are a religious, churchgoing person or not, if you are the least bit liberal or tolerant in your world view, this has got to be one of the most unnerving films of the year.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 28, 2006