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Not currently showing on the local cinema circuit.
Cast |
Bill Maher, Steve Burg, George Coyne, Jerry Cummings |
Director |
Larry Charles |
Screenplay | Bill Maher |
Cinematography | Anthony Hardwick |
Editing | Jeff Groth, Christian Kinnard, Jeffrey M. Werner |
Sound formats | Dolby Digital |
Soundtrack | Available |
Made in | 2008 |
Produced by | Thousand Words |
Official Site | IMDB page | ScreenIt Report
Trailer: Small | Medium | Large | Scroll down for embedded trailer
Genre | Documentary, religious |
Language | Strong |
Nudity | Brief |
Sex | Innuendo in language |
Violence | Moderate |
Prejudice | Strong |
Blasphemy | Strong |
Drug abuse | None |
Comments | None |
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Disrespectful / Bad Attitude |
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Frightening / Tense Scenes |
Jump Scenes |
Tense Family Scenes |
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Topics to talk about |
Scale (Max) | 20 | |
What the Critics say | ||
Cape Argus / The Star Zane Henry | 10 | |
Die Burger Le Roux Schoeman | 10 | |
Cape Times Kenneth Turan | 1 | |
The Citizen David Jenkin | 18 | |
Sunday Times Barry Ronge | 10 | |
24.com Ivan Sadler | 10 | |
Chicago Sunday Times Roger Ebert Bill Maher offers his opinionated take on the world’s religions, and it’s not going to please true believers of any stripe. | 18 | |
eye Weekly Adam Nayman Larry Charles' Religulous is a semi-documentary that uses the majority of its subjects as punchlines in a joke they're not in on. | 5 | |
ReelViews James Berardinelli On the whole, however, the occasional chuckles provoked by the movie don't make up for its sloppy, less-than-rigorous examination of an issue that deserves something more exhaustive. If the subject of religion is as important to Maher as he claims during his end comments, then he should have followed those words with actions and made a movie that's more than a sum of inauthentic interviews, ranting attacks, and obvious observations. | 10 | |
ScreenIt C. Fuchs On the Road to Nowhere, courtesy of the Talking Heads. | 10 | |
Metacritic.com 30 critics | 11 | |
Rottentomatoes critics 108 critics | 13 | |
Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer Religulous is funny and offensive in equal measure, and aims less to change hearts and minds than to inspire conversation. | 14 | |
What the People say | ||
Internet 4687 Netizens Fantastic | 15 | |
Average .. 55% | 11 |