An alarming look at a radical movement that appears to rob kids of their innocence.
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10/10/06
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
I spent a lot of years studying the teachings of Jesus in Catholic grammar school, and I think Jesus would be appalled by what goes on in the these camps.
10/09/06
Jesus Camp doesn’t trivialize or exploit its child subjects nor their spirituality; for the most part, the film maintains a patient, unobtrusive outlook from the D.A. Pennebaker school.
10/08/06
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10/07/06
This film demands to be seen for the questions it raises about where the American political system is headed.
10/07/06
Both disturbing and enlightening.
10/07/06
Jesus Camp seems to me most interesting (and poignant) as a portrait of denied and even desecrated childhood.
10/06/06
Top CriticOn one level, the documentary Jesus Camp is all about evangelical Christians keeping up with the terrorists.
10/06/06
Ewing and Grady avoid prodding or sneering, giving Fischer and her young charges nearly all the scenes.
10/06/06
By gilding the lily so shamelessly, Ewing and Grady guarantee they'll preach only to the converted.
10/06/06
Jesus Camp does what documentaries ought to do: It poses serious questions, then steps out of the argument.
10/06/06
The overlap of politics and religion is precisely what gives the film an interest beyond the curious practices with which some parents raise their children.
10/06/06
One of those documentaries so well crafted you should wonder what was left on the cutting-room floor.
10/06/06
It might be too much to ask for a little more diversity in the movie's subjects. Aren't there any boring, conventionally innocent kids marching in God's army?
10/06/06
Camp, pardon the pun, is preaching to the converted, and it isn't strong enough to sway anyone sitting on the fence.
10/06/06
Jesus Camp will present 1,000 questions on faith, trust, and humanity that are not easily answered; it's a film impossible to ignore.
10/06/06
Unfair and riveting and alarming and highly watchable -- but outrageously unfair.
10/05/06
Perhaps Jesus Camp will awaken some slumbering minds to two truths on which both sides of this religious debate might agree.
10/05/06
I think they've failed to ask questions that might help their movie cohere. But, even in the pile where the movie leaves them, those questions stand out as timely and chilling.
10/05/06
It makes an unsettling case that America is fast becoming the thing it professes to hate.
10/05/06
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