Maher asks that we step away from ourselves for a moment to consider our own doubt. Some will be unable to do this and will angrily reject Maher’s message [...] Some will embrace the film for punctuating their own feelings of skepticism.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Apr 4, 2024

It's a shame [Maher] hasn't tackled more intellectually formidable adversaries, and it's a shame that in going for easy laughs he's only preaching to the converted.

| Nov 21, 2020

It's disappointing given Maher's known comic potential and his regularly televised socio-political insights.

| Original Score: 2.0/4.0 | Sep 21, 2020

"Why can't we all just get along?" [Maher] asks at one point. Maybe he should have turned that question back on himself.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 7, 2019

It's hugely amusing to see an argument so cheerfully loaded, so barefacedly one-sided, and so frankly determined to bully the other side into silence.

| Feb 10, 2019

As Bill Maher demolishes one soft target after another, his smugness wears thin.

| Dec 16, 2017

| Original Score: B- | Feb 18, 2012

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 17, 2011

Bill Maher admittedly dresses a one-sided anti-religion diatribe in documentary linens and the hypocrites he finds make great punchlines. But he also addresses the historically proven truth of faith perverted for power and the danger posed to us all.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 17, 2010

Rather disconcertingly, the film builds towards a vision of the apocalypse, the destructive fate that religious conflicts have in store for us -- a version of the future any hellfire preacher would be proud of.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 9, 2009

Borat/Bruno meets Michael Moore in this funny and thought provoking attack on religion.

Full Review | Dec 9, 2009

So if you are not already on-side with [Maher's] particular leanings, the pickings in Religulous are very slim indeed.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 9, 2009

The Passion of the Maher

| Sep 1, 2009

Instead of confronting real problems radiating from the world's major religions Mr. Maher and Mr. Charles opt for Borat redux, making fun of silly little yokels.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 30, 2009

Ever the clever quipper, Bill Maher tackles religious dogma and ritual%u2013and Bibles tales%u2013in this documentary of irreverence. The film is witty and pointedly critical%u2013but it's no revelation.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 27, 2009

Ultimately, the movie is an impotent howl into the wind.

| Original Score: D | Jun 7, 2009

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| Original Score: 3/5 | May 10, 2009

Wants to be a wakeup call in a room where the people are willing to sleep just a little too deeply.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Apr 17, 2009

I'm all for a documentary about the mass hysteria of our warring creeds, but stand-up satirist Bill Maher turns out to be the wrong man to make it.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 9, 2009

Maher has gone for easy targets. He comes up with the odd funny gag, but you get the feeling that he is as dogmatic about his doubt as the believers are about their faith.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 9, 2009