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

New look at well-charted territory adds just enough to justify its existence.

| Mar 11, 2017

One of the best documentaries of the year.

| Original Score: A | Mar 10, 2017

While My Scientology Movie provides a very entertaining tour of some of the questions that swirl around Scientology, viewers who've followed the story through the years will find little that's new or unexpected.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 10, 2017

Theroux raises troubling questions about psychological warfare and how devoutness shades into fanaticism.

| Mar 9, 2017

Heavy on gimmicks, light on revelations.

| Mar 9, 2017

At times it plays like an extended skit on "The Daily Show"; yet its disorder also makes its insights - like how strongly the church's training sessions resemble acting classes - feel refreshingly organic.

| Mar 8, 2017

The film's a little choppy as Theroux takes side trips to interview other former Scientologists, but it comes together as a chilling look at America's most famous 20th-century homegrown religion.

| Mar 8, 2017

This stunt-driven nonfiction project rearranges the well-reported dirt on the church, placing it into the context of something considerably less useful: a documentary about how hard it is to make a documentary about Scientology.

| Original Score: C | Mar 8, 2017

The only element that significantly differentiates this documentary from its peers is Louis Theroux's good-natured cheekiness.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 7, 2017

What the film lacks in the way of harrowing, jaw-dropping revelations, it makes up for with Theroux's charm and breezy charisma.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 17, 2017

Less an in-depth investigation into the Church of Scientology than an entertaining but highly contrived string of scenes featuring Louis Theroux kicking an anthill and then watching the inhabitants react.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 9, 2016

Theroux takes his usual sideways, faux-innocent look at the Church of Scientology, which was recently thoroughly eviscerated in Alex Gibney's Going Clear.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 7, 2016

There are so many fascinating things about this film.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 7, 2016

This crafty, enjoyable and illuminating documentary comes at the Church Of Scientology from an unexpected angle.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 6, 2016

Theroux doesn't add anything substantial to the Gibney documentary, but he reiterates the sheer nastiness of this horrible corporate cult.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 6, 2016

The movie goes nowhere, you might adjudge by the end, if you're harsh. But it has a lot of informed and informative fun going nowhere.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 6, 2016

Theroux's first big-screen doc is an entertaining affair, peppered with surreal moments and wry wit, but its elusive subject remains out of reach.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 4, 2016

Worth a watch for the Jetsons meets Jesus Camp, legit instructional video clips alone.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 4, 2016