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11/24/07
Jesus Camp (2006)
88 %
Reviews Counted: 96 Fresh: 84 Rotten:12 Average Rating: 7.2/10
Consensus:
Evangelical indoctrination is given an unflinching, even-handed look in this utterly worthwhile documentary.
Rated: PG
Runtime: 85 mins
Theatrical Release: 23-11-2007
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, directed by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady (The Boys of Baraka), follows Levi, Rachael, Tory... [More]
Genre: Education/General Interest
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Flawed editing and intrusive and irritating commentary hardly detract from the shock value of this disturbing documentary. Compulsory viewing for anyone in the least bit concerned about religious extremism.
11/23/07
Top Critic
This gripping shock-doc looks inside the Kids on Fire evangelical summer camp in North Dakota, where training starts young for a “new army of God” to “take back America for Christ”.
11/23/07
This unabashedly liberal documentary tries to redress the balance by giving the rest of America a wake up call: not all scary fundamentalists come strapped with explosives.
11/23/07
Top Critic
Filmakers Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady don't bother with a polemical voiceover a la Michael Moore but skilfully stitch together the comments of the evangelicals themselves. It doesn't make for a pretty picture.
11/23/07
Top Critic
Funny, sad and horrifying. Anti-fundamentalist rather than anti-Christian, this deserves to preach to more than just the converted.
11/03/07
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09/01/07
Almost as scary as "Village of the Damned". 12 year olds who aspire to be the next James Dobson!
02/27/07
Ewing and Grady present this disturbing material in the only manner that it can be offered effectively
01/27/07
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01/25/07
With an admirable impartiality, filmmakers Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady allow the camera to make these kids look like Bible-thumping kooks as they quote scriptures and try to convert strangers they meet on the street.
01/24/07
One of the scariest movies I've ever seen. It's not a question of differing beliefs; it's a question of a separate society that will not accept differing beliefs
12/21/06
fascinating, eye-opening ... Although non-believers might find some of Fischer's rituals laughable, 'Jesus Camp' takes both the woman and her crusade very seriously, as it should.
12/08/06
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