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Jesus Camp (2006)
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Reviews Counted:24
Fresh:21
Rotten:3
Average Rating:7.2/10
Consensus: Evangelical indoctrination is given an unflinching, even-handed look in this utterly worthwhile documentary.
Runtime: 85 mins
Genre: Musical & Performing Arts
Theatrical Release:Sep 15, 2006 Limited
Box Office: $785,567
Synopsis: A growing number of Evangelical Christians believe there is a revival underway in America whereby Christian youth must take up the leadership of the conservative Christian movement. JESUS CAMP,... [More]
Director: Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady
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Reviews for Jesus Camp
Top CriticNo matter your religious or political affiliation (or lack thereof), this supremely even-handed documentary from Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady is cinematic dynamite.
10/13/06
Top CriticPerhaps indoctrination is in the eye of the beholder. But one thing is certain: All Christians aren't the same. I'm one, and I found this film to be saddening, not heartening.
10/13/06
Top CriticI spent a lot of years studying the teachings of Jesus in Catholic grammar school, and I think Jesus would be appalled by what goes on in the these camps.
10/09/06
Top CriticBoth disturbing and enlightening.
10/07/06
Top CriticJesus Camp seems to me most interesting (and poignant) as a portrait of denied and even desecrated childhood.
10/06/06
Top CriticJesus Camp does what documentaries ought to do: It poses serious questions, then steps out of the argument.
10/06/06
Top CriticThe overlap of politics and religion is precisely what gives the film an interest beyond the curious practices with which some parents raise their children.
10/06/06
Top CriticOne of those documentaries so well crafted you should wonder what was left on the cutting-room floor.
10/06/06
Top CriticIt might be too much to ask for a little more diversity in the movie's subjects. Aren't there any boring, conventionally innocent kids marching in God's army?
10/06/06
Top CriticDirectors Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady let the details speak for themselves.
10/05/06
Top CriticYou don't have to be extreme or liberal to be shaken by Jesus Camp.
10/05/06
Top CriticAs a documentary, Jesus Camp could lose its haunted-house score and contrapuntal Air America refrains and still deliver its message...
10/04/06
Top CriticIt stares into the face of faith run amok, and for those willing to follow its gaze, it provides sad revelations.
09/29/06
Top CriticFilmmakers Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady lump all evangelicals together, failing to distinguish the more fundamentalist Pentecostals, and they've clumsily inserted some unnecessary editorializing from talk-radio host Mike Papantonio.
09/29/06
Top CriticWhether you are a religious, churchgoing person or not, if you are the least bit liberal or tolerant in your world view, this has got to be one of the most unnerving films of the year.
09/28/06
Top CriticOften funny (just listen to Becky fulminate against Harry Potter), but it's also a scary, sobering inside look at the attempts of an increasingly powerful group to erode the separation of church and state.
09/28/06
Top CriticWhat Ewing and Grady have accomplished here is remarkable -- capturing the visceral humanity, desire and unflagging political will of a religious movement.
09/28/06
Top CriticIt knows what it's looking for and, once it finds it, it serves it up to its own chosen audience of Blue Staters. It's the flip side of its own subjects. It's preaching to the unconverted.
09/22/06
Top CriticThough it would have benefited from a more detached approach, this is a vital look at a subculture that remains foreign to many New Yorkers -- despite its growing influence over all our lives.
09/22/06
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