Pray The Devil Back To Hell is overly conventional as a documentary, but it's inspiring as a rebuttal to the declining state of the world at large.
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11/11/08
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Reviews Counted:34
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Average Rating:7.8/10
Consensus: This political documentary about protests during the Liberian Civil War is an uplifting celebration of the capacity of everyday people to affect great change.
Theatrical Release:Nov 7, 2008 Limited
Synopsis: History has many unacknowledged heroes and this documentary examines a group of women who fought for peace in Liberia, campaigning to end the country's devastating civil war. Crossing religious and... [More]
Director: Gini Reticker
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Reviews for Pray the Devil Back to Hell
A modest but effective work of documentary uplift.
12/05/08
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04/23/09
Winner of the Best Documentary award at this year's Tribeca Film Festival.
11/10/08
If this were a fictional Hollywood movie, it would be criticized for being too upbeat. But sometimes truth is not only stranger than fiction, it's also a whole lot better.
11/07/08
A simple and inspiring story told through the medium of film. But for what it is, it definitely gets the job done.
11/07/08
An economically told, extremely powerful story.
11/11/08
Gini Reticker's simply made, affecting documentary Pray the Devil Back to Hell reveals how these heroic ordinary women prodded the factions to peace and literally brought down Taylor, a leader of sociopathic cruelty.
11/05/08
Top CriticAlthough filling the watcher with the same sort of outrage that inspired the women to stand up and be counted, this is, at heart, a testimony to the power of solidarity and sisterhood through a single purpose.
07/04/09
The special effectiveness of women is the theme of director Gini Reticker's film, but there is a remarkable lack of moralizing and grandstanding here.
11/07/08
Inspiring story, through vivid memories and supporting footage, of how one of Africa's worst and longest civil wars was ended by determined women working together
11/07/08
the power of the material overcomes flaws in presentation
11/09/08
Relates a powerful story with intelligence, concision and a minimum of distracting stylistic flourishes.
11/13/08
Some political documentaries suffer from overselling the urgency of their agenda, but director Gini Reticker's Pray the Devil Back to Hell nicely underplays the significance of its subject.
11/13/08
The story of the women's groups -- Christian and Muslim, uniting for the first time in the nation's history -- is unbelievably inspiring.
11/14/08
Pray the Devil uses its brief 72 minutes to tell one of the truly heartening international political stories of recent years.
11/14/08
Top CriticOffers an inspiring portrait of conscientious citizens working to make a change. Yes they can, indeed.
11/12/08
An object lesson in interfaith cooperation and an instructional manual for people committed to making systemic political change through nonviolent means.
02/27/09
Even though the film is inescapably fragmented and catch-as-catch-can as cinema, its heart is pure and infinitely compassionate.
11/05/08
Top CriticGini Reticker's embracing documentary Pray the Devil Back to Hell shows how Taylor got his comeuppance from a coalition of tenacious Christian and Muslim women armed only with matching T-shirts.
11/07/08
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November 04, 2008:
A glorious tribute to a bi-partisan sisterhood of Christian and Muslim women fed up with having to raise their children amidst the incessant slaughter, raping and looting of the Liberian civil war.
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