Slant Magazine by Andrew Schenker
Fitfully engaging, but the documentary turns into a touchy-feely isn't-it-wonderful-we're-all-saved love fest as soon as the universalists begin to dominate the interview segments.
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Canada · 2012
1h 24m
Director Kevin Miller
Starring Francis Schaeffer, Brian McLaren, Mark Driscoll, William Paul Young
Genre Action, Documentary, Horror, Thriller
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This documentary examines people's beliefs about the existence of and nature of hell. Through interviews with people ranging from an atheist writer to an exorcist to a singer, the provocative film questions how beliefs about hell and about which people go there affect people's actions and worldviews.
Slant Magazine by Andrew Schenker
Fitfully engaging, but the documentary turns into a touchy-feely isn't-it-wonderful-we're-all-saved love fest as soon as the universalists begin to dominate the interview segments.
Los Angeles Times by Gary Goldstein
Given the subjectively interpretive nature of scripture and ancient religious history, which informs most of the Christian-centric debate here, the result is an often dense, contradictory discourse.
By narrowing its range of voices to Christian leaders, thinkers and writers, Kevin Miller's sober, stimulating documentary on the hot topic of eternal damnation necessarily limits its audience, but achieves a level of rhetorical eloquence that would theoretically appeal to open-minded viewers of any religious stripe.
Arizona Republic by Kerry Lengel
It's an engaging, accessible documentary that explores the (truly) eternal questions, "Does hell exist? If so, who ends up there, and why?"
The New York Times by Neil Genzlinger
Mr. Miller makes a questionable choice in setting the film against the backdrop of the 10th anniversary of Sept. 11, and he lingers too long on an offensive fringe group that hangs out near ground zero with signs saying the terrorist attacks were God's will. But for most of the way, his treatment is substantive and evenhanded.
Village Voice by Nick Pinkerton
To the atheist, the various interpretations might seem as so many angels dancing on the head of a pin, but any admirer of good talk will be impressed by the scholasticism and pulpit-trained oratory here, as well as some choice fighting words: "Evangelicism in America is what the pharisees were to ancient Egypt."
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