54
Metascore
4 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 67IndieWireDavid EhrlichIndieWireDavid EhrlichIt spreads itself too wide and too shallow, and leaves us wishing that we might have seen more of the journey that has come to define Jones’ adult life: The path to starting a family of her own.
- 63Slant MagazineChuck BowenSlant MagazineChuck BowenFilmmaker Cara Jones offers a poignant testament to the baggage and insecurities hounding her own life.
- 50The New York TimesBen KenigsbergThe New York TimesBen KenigsbergJones’s former affiliation presumably helped with access; adherents seem to trust her, and some clips are credited to the church. It also gives her a complicated, at times surprisingly sympathetic outlook on the cult.
- 50RogerEbert.comPeter SobczynskiRogerEbert.comPeter SobczynskiThe film is a little too scattershot for its own good, which becomes especially frustrating when some of these detours actually come across as potentially being far more interesting than the central narrative thread.