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.
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11/07/08
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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
Gini 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
Uplifting, disheartening, inspiring, enraging -- the mind reels while watching the documentary Pray the Devil Back to Hell.
11/07/08
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
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
Without their guns, the men prove surprisingly helpless. And when a [mediator] tells them that if they want the women to stop treating them like children, they must behave responsibly, you sense a corner has been turned.
11/07/08
Top CriticInspiring 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 greatest respect Gini Reticker's Pray the Devil Back to Hell pays to its war-battered Liberian subjects is simply an unwillingness to embellish.
11/06/08
If nothing else, Pray the Devil Back to Hell is a potent reminder of what power in numbers can accomplish.
11/06/08
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 CriticEven though the film is inescapably fragmented and catch-as-catch-can as cinema, its heart is pure and infinitely compassionate.
11/05/08
Top CriticPray the Devil remembers the golden rule of moviemaking -- rather than tell, it shows, and what it shows is quietly affecting.
11/05/08
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.
11/04/08
The stirring and hopeful account of Liberian women who as creative and nonviolent activists brought peace to their country in 2003.
11/02/08
Compelling docu chronicles the actions of the coalition of Christian and Muslim women who prevailed over warlords and warriors to halt the decades-long fighting that claimed their fathers, brothers, husbands and children.
10/18/08
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