An undeniably provocative head-trip, laced with the most spectacular lightning-storm footage I've ever seen.
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11/12/09
Act of God (2009)
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Reviews Counted:5
Fresh:3
Rotten:2
Average Rating:6/10
Theatrical Release:Oct 23, 2009 Limited
Synopsis: This documentary from MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES director Jennifer Baichwal examines the effects of lightning strikes beyond just the physical. ACT OF GOD incorporates interviews with individuals who... [More]
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Reviews for Act of God
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Top CriticPhilosophically ripe but cinematically undercooked.
11/06/09
Top CriticNeither filtered through nor structured around another artist's work, and suffers from the lack of a unifying vision, its parts greater than the whole.
11/05/09
Top CriticBaichwal is the least judgmental of interviewers, which is a double-edged sword when the solemn testimony ("I had come to meet me") induces a barely resistible urge to laugh.
11/03/09
Top CriticThe film doesn’t need a narrator, since the people whose accounts we hear speak so absorbingly. All talking heads should talk so articulately.
10/08/09
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