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11/23/07
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.
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,... [More]
Director: Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady
Reviews for Jesus Camp
Top CriticFilmakers 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
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
A brave, thoughtful documentary.
11/22/07
Top CriticFlawed 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 CriticWhy bother with horror films when you can see this?
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 CriticFunny, 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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11/24/07
Every scene is loaded enough to infuriate some and to rouse others.
09/28/06
Jesus Camp doesn't just preach to the converted, it bores and frightens them
09/29/06
Definitely eye opening, despite lacking a larger scope.
09/26/06
It makes an unsettling case that America is fast becoming the thing it professes to hate.
10/05/06
The ominous tolling bell of documentaries.
09/27/06
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
I sympathize with the directors' agenda, but this is a movie in which shots of American flags and 'God Bless the U.S.A.' signs are supposed to be as ominous as hammer-and-sickle insignia in a 'duck and cover' propaganda film.
11/06/06
The deck is stacked here, but that doesn't make the scenes at the camp any less real.
11/30/06
Both disturbing and enlightening.
10/07/06
Evangelism'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
As a documentary, Jesus Camp could lose its haunted-house score and contrapuntal Air America refrains and still deliver its message...
10/04/06
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