Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 18, 2011

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 17, 2011

You may not leave the theater having switched sides, but you'll probably respect the other side more, and that in itself would be a victory for human life.

| Dec 4, 2007

For all its provocativeness, Lake of Fire is not a shapeless movie, nor a politically irresponsible one.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/6 | Nov 14, 2007

Lake of Fire doesn't tell you what to decide, it just gives you as much information as possible to make the choice yourself.

| Nov 8, 2007

At 152 minutes, his film doesn't seem long, because at every moment something absorbing, disturbing, depressing or infuriating is happening.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 26, 2007

No one will have an easy time of it with Lake of Fire, a work of profound anguish centered on the abortion rights debate.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 25, 2007

Lake of Fire does something with the volatile subject of abortion that neutral observers and even political partisans can appreciate: It offers a wide representation of perspectives and opinions.

| Oct 19, 2007

It's the arguments on both sides that make this long, gripping film such a vital contribution to the national conversation about abortion.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 19, 2007

Provides gruesome, incontrovertible images to complement its deliberations about morality.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 19, 2007

A 2 1/2 -hour documentary on abortion may sound like a hard sell, but the depth and scope of Tony Kaye's grueling Lake of Fire nonetheless justifies feeling like you've just taken a long, blistering soak in one.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 12, 2007

There's a madness to Lake Of Fire, a two-and-a-half hour documentary about abortion in America, that goes hand-in-glove with its staggering achievement.

Full Review | Original Score: A | Oct 5, 2007

Wherever you stand on the volatile issue of abortion, Tony Kaye's exhaustive documentary could dislodge your certainties with a broad survey of opinion from opposite extremes and explicit depictions of medical procedures.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 4, 2007

Highly compelling, if overlong and overwrought.

| Oct 4, 2007

Viewer opinions about life and death provoked by Lake of Fire are not likely to flip, but they sure will get shaken.

| Original Score: B | Oct 3, 2007

[The] film does nothing to advance the debate but does a great deal to show us what's at stake.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 3, 2007

[A] passionate meditation on the fiery issue.

Full Review | Oct 3, 2007

One lesson of Lake of Fire is the galvanizing power of the visual image. Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words, and sometimes pictures are not enough.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 3, 2007

A provocatively beautiful movie on the hottest hot-button issue in American life: a woman's right to an abortion.

Full Review | Oct 2, 2007

This sprawling, scary, nearly unbearable film [is] more important than ever.

Full Review | Oct 1, 2007