To say the film lingers in the mind like a nightmare is not to say it is unpleasant.

| Mar 1, 2007

The music was fine; the tour was suspect.

| Original Score: C+ | May 29, 2006

It's a slow, ponderous film -- too slow and too ponderous, maybe -- but an intriguing one, often funny, sometimes unnerving, and altogether hard to forget.

| Original Score: B | May 5, 2006

Calling this a documentary is a bit of a misnomer, as Douglas splices staged music numbers into his travelogue footage to paint his surreal homage to the Deep South

| Original Score: B- | Feb 10, 2006

The stories, usually told by white men, grow banal, and the richness of White's world increasingly seems limited in scope . . . seems racially myopic.

Full Review | Jan 21, 2006

White says you can't really understand the South if its not in your blood, and he's probably right. But the film does an admirable job trying to give us a transfusion.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 10, 2005

According to this, there are only 3 types of people in the South: the sinners on the road to hell, the religious fanatics praying for them, and the people who sing about both.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 25, 2005

The soundtrack, which includes Lee Sexton, The Handsome Family and others, is full of haunting Southern sounds; the camera work is inventive; and the interviews give you an off-center sense of place that equals at least one aspect of the South.

| Original Score: B | Oct 20, 2005

Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus is one of those movie-long non sequiturs where, though one thought does not logically follow another, we know what is meant.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 7, 2005

Andrew Douglas' meandering documentary Searching For The Wrong-Eyed Jesus contains fantastic images--pictures that haven't been captured so intimately before.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 26, 2005

A portrait of rural America as beautiful as it is bizarre.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 12, 2005

Brooding, often beautiful tone poem of a documentary.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 7, 2005

The atmosphere conveyed is possibly too vivid. By the time the movie is over, you'll probably feel the need to take a shower just to scrub off the lingering, psychic grime.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 5, 2005

The soundtrack [provides] the brooding Southern atmosphere that sometimes eludes Douglas on this beautifully shot but strangely distant road trip.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 5, 2005

This is the only film I have seen that captures a true essence of the South's unique if odd beauty.

| Aug 4, 2005

Succeeds in being both awestruck and affectionate, rather than mocking in tone.

| Original Score: B | Aug 3, 2005

Douglas has crafted a beautifully shot and edited film that treats its subjects fairly.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 29, 2005

A hit-and-miss experience.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 28, 2005

Decidedly strange, delightfully demented.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 28, 2005

Far too often, Douglas indulges his preference for the superficial over the substantive.

| Jul 28, 2005