The scariest movie of the season by far...a fine, thought-provoking documentary.
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09/25/06
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Jesus Camp (2006)
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Reviews Counted:96
Fresh:83
Rotten:13
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
Ewing and Grady have accomplished something of a miracle with Jesus Camp...at once explosive and unbiased.
09/24/06
JESUS CAMP should be seen as it demonstrates the extremes to which the Religious Right will go to push its agenda.
09/23/06
Grady and Ewing's depiction of this modern-day children's crusade is remarkably unbiased.
09/22/06
Riveting, profoundly unsettling yet remarkably even-handed.
09/22/06
It 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
[Ewing and Grady] take the techniques of the Jesus campers too close to heart: Admit no doubt and keep preaching until they've got the point.
09/22/06
This riveting documentary explores Kids on Fire, a summer camp in Devils Lake, N.D., that grooms children to be soldiers in 'God's army'.
09/21/06
Top CriticEvangelism's views on science and politics are so polarizing that almost any viewer, whether Orthodox, agnostic, or atheist, is bound to have an elemental reaction from the first shot of six-year-olds weeping in religious ecstasy.
09/21/06
You don't have to be an extremist liberal to find any minute of Jesus Camp more frightening than the entirety of Village of the Damned.
09/21/06
Top CriticYou may not be fond of what looks like a cult, but the doc does present a case for the camp.
09/21/06
The doc these kids would make with flea market camcorders couldn't possibly be as ugly as this absurdly hypocritical critique of the far right's role in escalating the culture war.
09/19/06
A frightening, infuriating, yet profoundly compassionate documentary about the indoctrination of children by the Evangelical right.
09/18/06
Top CriticFilmmakers Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady, who also focused on children in last year's poignant The Boys of Baraka, provide a fascinating glimpse of kids' role in the evangelical movement's political agenda.
09/15/06
If you're a liberal, this is a must! Know your enemy!
09/15/06
This isn't the blind leading the blind, but it is the visually impaired leading the blind. Disturbing.
09/15/06
Cut to the flickering images of children writhing in a spiritual trance on a chapel floor while being hectored about the glory of dying for Christ, and one knows exactly where the first Christian suicide bombers will come from.
09/15/06
A wake-up call for liberals and progressive Christians about the training of evangelical children soldiers in the culture wars.
09/15/06
A piercing portrait of innocence perverted.
09/01/06
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