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Connie Ogle, Miami Herald: It's almost impossible not to respond emotionally to this fascinating, sobering and all-too-brief exploration of the politicized religious right and its hopes, dreams and power. Read more
Jessica Reaves, Chicago Tribune: What Ewing and Grady have accomplished here is remarkable -- capturing the visceral humanity, desire and unflagging political will of a religious movement. Read more
John Hartl, Seattle Times: On one level, the documentary Jesus Camp is all about evangelical Christians keeping up with the terrorists. Read more
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: 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. Read more
Phil Kloer, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: You don't have to be extreme or liberal to be shaken by Jesus Camp. Read more
Keith Phipps, AV Club: [Ewing and Grady] take the techniques of the Jesus campers too close to heart: Admit no doubt and keep preaching until they've got the point. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: 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? Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: Whether you are a religious, churchgoing person or not, if you are the least bit liberal or tolerant in your world view, this has got to be one of the most unnerving films of the year. Read more
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: Filmmakers Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady lump all evangelicals together, failing to distinguish the more fundamentalist Pentecostals, and they've clumsily inserted some unnecessary editorializing from talk-radio host Mike Papantonio. Read more
Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle: Perhaps indoctrination is in the eye of the beholder. But one thing is certain: All Christians aren't the same. I'm one, and I found this film to be saddening, not heartening. Read more
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: One of those documentaries so well crafted you should wonder what was left on the cutting-room floor. Read more
Scott Brown, Entertainment Weekly: As a documentary, Jesus Camp could lose its haunted-house score and contrapuntal Air America refrains and still deliver its message... Read more
Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: Jesus Camp does what documentaries ought to do: It poses serious questions, then steps out of the argument. Read more
Jan Stuart, Newsday: You don't have to be an extremist liberal to find any minute of Jesus Camp more frightening than the entirety of Village of the Damned. Read more
David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture: A frightening, infuriating, yet profoundly compassionate documentary about the indoctrination of children by the Evangelical right. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: It knows what it's looking for and, once it finds it, it serves it up to its own chosen audience of Blue Staters. It's the flip side of its own subjects. It's preaching to the unconverted. Read more
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: Though it would have benefited from a more detached approach, this is a vital look at a subculture that remains foreign to many New Yorkers -- despite its growing influence over all our lives. Read more
Neva Chonin, San Francisco Chronicle: It stares into the face of faith run amok, and for those willing to follow its gaze, it provides sad revelations. Read more
Richard Schickel, TIME Magazine: Jesus Camp seems to me most interesting (and poignant) as a portrait of denied and even desecrated childhood. Read more
Ronnie Scheib, Variety: Like the filmmakers' award-winning Boys of Baraka, Jesus Camp examines the relationship between education and social context. Read more
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: Often funny (just listen to Becky fulminate against Harry Potter), but it's also a scary, sobering inside look at the attempts of an increasingly powerful group to erode the separation of church and state. Read more