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Oh My God (2009)

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Reviews Counted:15

Fresh:3

Rotten:12

Average Rating:3.8/10

Rated: Not Rated

Genre: Education/General Interest

Theatrical Release:Nov 13, 2009 Limited

Synopsis: Hugh Jackman, Ringo Starr, Seal, and a number of other celebrities and regular people offer their views on God in this documentary. OH MY GOD features opinions from people of a variety of religious... Hugh Jackman, Ringo Starr, Seal, and a number of other celebrities and regular people offer their views on God in this documentary. OH MY GOD features opinions from people of a variety of religious persuasions, including atheists, Muslims, Hindus, and Christians. Director Peter Rodger traveled to almost two dozen countries in his quest to discover what people around the world think about God in all his or her forms. [More]

Starring: Hugh Jackman, Ringo Starr, David Copperfield, Dr. John DeMartini

Starring: Hugh Jackman, Ringo Starr, David Copperfield, Dr. John DeMartini, Princess Michael of Kent, Jack Thomson, Bob Geldof, Seal, Baz Luhrmann

Director: Peter Rodger

Director: Peter Rodger
Screenwriter: Peter Rodger
Producer: Peter Rodger
Composer: Alexander Van Bubenheim

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There's nothing new unearthed in this film. The religious adherent won't have their mind changed, and the person who isn't sure what they believe won't find any help here, either.

Full Review Source: Christianity Today | comment Comment
11/30/09
Alissa Wilkinson
Alissa Wilkinson
Christianity Today

Some of the talking heads say entertaining or thoughtful things and some of the locations are quite exotic. But does this justify 98 minutes of screen time?

Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | comment Comment
11/29/09
Walter V. Addiego
Walter V. Addiego
San Francisco Chronicle
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Provocative, captivating and profoundly illuminating. You'll be talking about it for weeks.

Full Review Source: NYC Movie Guru | comment Comment
11/14/09
Avi Offer
Avi Offer
NYC Movie Guru

One reaches the conclusion fairly early in Rodger's gorgeously photographed but obnoxiously quick-cut-edited film that the question "What is God?" has no satisfactory nor universally agreeable answers.

Full Review Source: Movie Dearest | comment Comment
11/13/09
Fr. Chris Carpenter
Fr. Chris Carpenter
Movie Dearest

Peter Rodger does a fairly comprehensive job of traversing the globe in 98 minutes, posing the age-old question, "What is God?"

Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | comment Comment
11/13/09
Kevin Thomas
Kevin Thomas
Los Angeles Times
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Scattershot documentary about the meaning of God won't win any converts.

Full Review Source: Film Journal International | comment Comment
11/13/09
Daniel Eagan
Daniel Eagan
Film Journal International

[A] picturesque but shallow inquiry into the meaning of God.

Full Review Source: New York Times | comment Comment
11/13/09
Stephen Holden
Stephen Holden
New York Times
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While beautiful photography of the faraway lands Rodger visits and crisp editing keep the movie flowing at a fast pace, Oh My God remains a hit-and-miss collection of interviews that fail to create a single, compelling message.

Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine | comment Comment
11/13/09
Steve Ramos
Steve Ramos
Boxoffice Magazine

A gorgeously filmed documentary that takes us to 23 countries and conveys the diverse paths to God in the world's major religions.

Full Review Source: Spirituality and Practice | comment Comment
11/13/09
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Spirituality and Practice

Hearing snoring from behind me at a screening the other day, I looked around and noticed four people had dozed off during the prettily photographed, boring vanity project that is Oh My God?

Full Review Source: New York Post | comment Comment
11/13/09
Lou Lumenick
Lou Lumenick
New York Post
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Compacts nearly three years' worth of globe-trotting interviews into an often visually vibrant but rhetorically muddled package.

Full Review Source: Variety | comment Comment
11/12/09
Justin Chang
Justin Chang
Variety
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The one thing many people seem to agree on is that whatever they feel for God, they can't really explain it. How revealing.

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11/12/09
Matt Pais
Matt Pais
Metromix.com

British commercial photographer Peter Rodger took his camera -- and a crew to document him using his camera -- around the world like a well-connected dilettante, asking people the uselessly vague question ''What is God?''

Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly | comment Comment
11/11/09
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Entertainment Weekly
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The musings of celebrities like Seal and Ringo Starr are given prominence over those of religious leaders and scholars, while a relentless Moby-esque soundtrack subsumes each insight into a sonic miasma of theism.

Full Review Source: Time Out New York | comment Comment
11/11/09
Kevin Lee
Kevin Lee
Time Out New York

The drubbing score leaves one nearly insensate to the fact that Rodgers has nothing original or even interesting to say about his subject, flattening fine points of scripture to recommend interfaith group hugs.

Full Review Source: Village Voice | comment Comment
11/10/09
Nick Pinkerton
Nick Pinkerton
Village Voice
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