| Original Score: B- | Feb 18, 2012

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

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

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

It was much more thought-provoking than I was expecting, but his blatant bias made me feel that he was no less a fundamentalist than the religious people he was criticising.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 3, 2009

Over-extended but nonetheless thought provoking and humorous documentary.

| Original Score: 3/6 | Apr 3, 2009

Maher crucifies the kooks. What he singularly fails to do, though, is engage with anyone sensible. By mocking the loonies he squanders the precious high ground. A real pity.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 3, 2009

Shooting fish in a barrel is the order of the day in comedian Bill Maher's faintly tiresome attack on religion.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 3, 2009

It's a rare film that can simultaneously crack you up and send a chill down your spine. Worth seeing - even for believers.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 3, 2009

The serious food for thought gets lost amid the one-stop snacking.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 3, 2009

It's pretty easy to take the piss out of religious kitsch, as Maher does. It would have been more instructive (if less chucklesome) if he'd risked an argument with an accredited theologian.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 3, 2009

Snappily edited and intercut with hilariously snide subtitles, this may be preaching to the converted but there's an ark-load of laughs.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 3, 2009

That's the trouble with Religulous -it is funny but never very acute.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 3, 2009

There are a few laughs but anyone with half a brain will be able to tell this is a pretty shoddy fit-up job.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 3, 2009

Maher is essentially and professionally a comic, and the measure of this movie is not just the thoughts it provokes but the laughs it generates.

| Nov 10, 2008

About half of the movie works in its snide, hit-and-run way. The other half throws more and more darts at the same balloon, long after it pops.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 18, 2008

Religulous has an unholy fervor that should start many bonfires.

| Oct 18, 2008

Maher sets out not after answers but cheap laughs that preach, so to speak, to the converted.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 18, 2008

To religious conservatives of all denominations, it's a punch in the nose. (Except when Maher's bashing the other zealots, those wackjobs.) To atheists and agnostics, it's catharsis

| Original Score: A- | Oct 13, 2008