The doc boasts no greater analysis into the churchs operations, though its irreverent comic stuntwork entertains.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 4, 2022

Rehashes old information in an entertaining way.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 4, 2021

The somewhat aimless My Scientology Movie may be entertaining, but it's far from essential.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 20, 2019

The lack of answers here is frustrating but understandable, and the journey to find them provides an entertaining look at the nature of power and belief.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 18, 2019

My Scientology Movie isn't going to find much of an audience with Scientologists, but for the rest of us, it offers lessons on how to passively resist intimidation by individuals...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 21, 2019

My Scientology Movie provides a laugh-filled surrealistic experience that suitably issues a complementary alternative to the more methodical documentary Alex Gibney's Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 2, 2018

As journalism, it's a goof, but the film uses a conceit that offers a curious consideration of the Church's theatrics.

| Feb 9, 2018

Luckily, the Louis Theroux-led flick takes a unique direction and completely shatters our expectations.

| Dec 20, 2017

It might not be a perfect documentary, but it gets us inside the Church, by hook or crook, and lets us examine what dark secrets they are hiding.

| Original Score: B- | Nov 23, 2017

Unlike other documentaries about Scientology, this one is more like a character study of a few people making a movie than it is an examination of the Church of Scientology. It does explain some aspects of it, but not in the usual pedagogical way.

| Original Score: C+ | Nov 16, 2017

Things do get better, thanks to his (Louis Theroux's) legendary patience, his entertaining baiting of church members in their own lair, and his success in persuading a number of former church members to spill the beans.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 18, 2017

While at times too caught up in his stunt-journalism conceit, [Louis] Theroux does uncover a particular Los Angeles kookiness beneath the world's most famous cult.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 17, 2017

The doc as a whole struggles to advance the conversation about Scientology and its inner workings - especially in the wake of Going Clear - but it's an entertaining if confounding watch nonetheless.

| Jun 27, 2017

Riveting and tense docu has frequent cursing.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 20, 2017

My Scientology Movie, the newest film by the British documentarian Louis Theroux, vibrates with effort-with machinations and stunts and stitch ups that all seem intent on producing an "aha" moment that remains tantalizingly out of reach.

| Jun 16, 2017

There's not a lot of shockingly new information per se, but watching Theroux filming covert Scientologists while they in turn film him, and so on, has its own sort of meta-charm.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 30, 2017

He's not content to copy Alex Gibney, whose 2015 documentary [Going Clear] provides a stunning inside look at the religion... No, Dower is more of an entertainer, and he imbues his storytelling style with a somewhat lighter touch.

| Mar 24, 2017

(Theroux) doesn't really get anywhere in his attempts to discuss and understand Scientology, but his exploration is nonetheless entertaining.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 20, 2017

... on its small scale it is one of the most entertaining and fun documentary watches in years.

| Original Score: 8.5/10 | Mar 18, 2017

Despite the disingenuous premise, the movie stands as an entertaining and alarming companion to Gibney's more comprehensive Going Clear (which was in production about the same time).

| Original Score: 87/100 | Mar 17, 2017