With every added account of shameful contrition, the realization that this issue exists very much in the present tense weighs heavy on the viewer...

| Aug 6, 2021

A chilling film...

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

For all its sobering and poignant moments, Pray Away also has its stories of triumph...

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 4, 2021

"Pray Away" is more interesting when it focuses on how most of its subjects eventually embraced gay and bisexual identities despite having formerly been so public in their homophobia.

| Aug 3, 2021

An intimate exploration of conversion therapy's impact today.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 1, 2021

Pray Away narrows its purpose to be simply informative; it is too artistically flat to have the emotional peaks that would give its own otherwise vital message some dynamic.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 30, 2021

"Pray Away" is a wise and compassionate film about anti-gay conversion therapy as it's practiced and encouraged by the evangelical church.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 29, 2021

Such visual reenforcement is constant, as we see footage of many so-called "ex-ex-gays" when they were being tortured by their ministries alongside footage of them looking far happier after they escaped.

| Jun 17, 2021

A sobering account of Christian intervention rooted in toxic homophobia.

| Apr 15, 2020