Stories based on a true story often face the detriment of audiences knowing how it's all going to end. That will certainly be the case for many with The Most Hated Woman in America.

| Original Score: C+ | Nov 5, 2018

The Most Hated Woman in America has bite. It just doesn't land each of its targets.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 3, 2018

After this biopic, it is hopeful that one will take away a new understanding or, dare I say, sympathy, for the woman who singlehandedly changed America... for better or for worse.

| Aug 6, 2018

People will watch it under the guise that it's high quality drama - recommended if you like The Departed or No Country for Old Men - and they'll walk away feeling like they just did a homework assignment on religious freedom.

| Mar 7, 2018

While certainly set up to be a home run with its cast and director, the film never really finds its own voice.

| Dec 19, 2017

It doesn't quite succeed in emulating its influences, but it does effectively tell the story of a woman who deserves to be remembered.

| Aug 7, 2017

The Most Hated Woman isn't a documentary, and it certainly isn't pretending to be perfectly historically accurate. It does, however, draw out some of the real underlying issues still impacting politics today.

| May 25, 2017

The Most Hated Woman in America appears chained to the path of mediocrity, as is now typical with Netflix's original films.

| May 9, 2017

Essentially, The Most Hated Woman in America does far more harm than good in how it presents the story of Madalyn Murray O'Hair.

| May 4, 2017

Not an Atheist hagiography by any means, but not a refutation either.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 29, 2017

Abrasive activist fights prayer, with cursing and violence.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 4, 2017

She is an enigma and her rise to success a mirror of self-delusional hokum that should make us pause in reflection.

| Original Score: B | Mar 30, 2017

A film that is simultaneously too much and nothing at all because it's jumping around so much narratively.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 24, 2017

Melissa Leo delivers a powerhouse performance as the Austin atheist leader Madalyn Murray O'Hair in director Tommy O'Haver's The Most Hated Woman in America.

| Mar 23, 2017

Murray O'Hair was a force of nature, and Leo captures her formidable bluster, along with flashes of vulnerability contrasting with the stern certainty of her public appearances.

| Mar 22, 2017

[The film] makes it abundantly clear that Madalyn Murray O'Hair was a riveting human being whose story is worth telling in our messed up times, but the film never has the slightest idea of what that story might be about.

| Original Score: D | Mar 20, 2017

The fiery breadth of the woman's life as a professional poke in religious America's eye is missing from this narrow, ineffectual offering, which presents itself as true-crime saga and bad-mommy soap opera more than a portrait of a complicated individual.

| Mar 15, 2017

Thanks to a tasty take-no-prisoners lead performance by Melissa Leo, it can ... be a lot of fun, even if the Netflix original film's dramatic dividends prove less satisfying.

| Mar 15, 2017

Seems to fall right where you'd expect: slightly better than your average 온라인카지노추천 movie, while not as good as your typical theatrical release.

| Mar 14, 2017

Its desultory storytelling and seesaw of tonal shifts is frustrating in a way that so many poor biographical films tend to be. It's a pity, as O'Hair is a heck of a historical figure and Melissa Leo is, in many scenes, quite gripping.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 14, 2017