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Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus
Films Transit International

Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 58 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
7.3 out of 10
based on 14 reviews
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MPAA RATING: Not Rated

Starring Jim White

A thought-provoking road trip through the American South, this film is a collage of stories and testimonies, almost invariably of sudden death, sin or redemption: Heaven or Hell, with no middle ground. (Films Transit International)


GENRE(S): Documentary  
WRITTEN BY: Steve Haisman  
DIRECTED BY: Andrew Douglas  
RELEASE DATE: DVD: March 14, 2006 
Theatrical: July 13, 2005 
RUNNING TIME: 84 minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: USA 

Documentary Award (tie), 2004 Seattle International Film Festival

What The Critics Said

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100
Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
A travelogue unlike any other.
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75
San Francisco Chronicle G. Allen Johnson
A beautifully shot and edited film that treats its subjects fairly.
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70
Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum
Made for the BBC, this travelogue of America's southern backwoods is both blessed and cursed by its fascination with the colorful--lively alt-country sounds and fancy word spinners like novelist Harry Crews.
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70
Los Angeles Times Kevin Crust
Delightfully demented.
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63
New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
A movie about identity that can't quite pinpoint its own, Andrew Douglas' road-trip documentary about the Deep South does eventually meander toward audience enlightenment.
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60
The Hollywood Reporter Frank Scheck
Ultimately fails to illuminate its subject, though it does offer some evocative moments and terrific music along the way.
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60
Salon.com Andrew O'Hehir
A lovely, faintly sinister travelogue.
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60
The New York Times Stephen Holden
Occasionally, this richly lyrical movie passes over the line separating sympathetic exploration from freak-show condescension.
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60
TV Guide Ken Fox
White's take on southern life is no more "real" than the stereotypes he's trying to disrupt, just cooler.
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50
Variety Leslie Felperin
Ultimately, pic feels very much like a romanticized, outsider's view of the South that willfully seeks out the culture's strangest, most weirdo aspects for other outsiders' gleeful delectation.
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50
Village Voice Joshua Land
Florida-born folksinger Jim White serves as guide on this musical tour of the rural South, conceptualized less as a state of mind than as an atmosphere.
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50
LA Weekly Scott Foundas
Far too often, Douglas indulges his preference for the superficial over the substantive: The plentiful performance footage -- shot in overproduced, music-video fashion -- overwhelms the film, as do White’s purplish, faux-poetic musings.
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38
New York Post Kyle Smith
By the time White gets around to condescending remarks... the film has become a sort of BBC "Hee Haw," meant to reassure Brits and New Yorkers that the South is indeed a land of pistol-toting, Jesus-praising gap-toothed freaks.
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20
Film Threat Phil Hall
Tiresome, trite and choked with every lousy Dixie-fried stereotype imaginable.
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What Our Users Said

Vote Now!The average user rating for this movie is 7.3 (out of 10) based on 6 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Paul F. gave it an8:
Take your video camera to every charismatic small town church in the south, throw in some great country gospel music and some assorted tales from prison, bars, and eccentric yokels and you have Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus. I thought this film might bash such a culture but it actually embraced it without absolutely agreeing to its a hell fire and brimestone tenet. I found the narrator to be quite spiritual in more of an open accepting type of way. Though many of the people in this film were quite certain what was what the narrator ceased to judge and loved the spirit of humanity for what it was.

Chris S. gave it a10:
This is a depiction of the South that eloquently illustrates it's uniqueness and beauty. With beautiful photography, haunting, stylized musical performances and candid interviews in backwoods bars, prisons and churches, the filmmakers capture the south of hardcore religion and mystical music, leaving aside the sterotypes of ignorance and bigotry.

Peter M gave it a0:
Appalling, like religion itself generally is though.

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