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  • 2017
  • Not Rated
  • Magnolia Pictures
  • 1 h 39 m
  • 2017
  • Not Rated
  • Magnolia Pictures
  • 1 h 39 m

Summary Inspired by the Church of Scientology’s use of filming techniques, and aided by ex-members of the organization Louis Theroux uses actors to replay some incidents people claim they experienced as members in an attempt to better understand the way it operates. In a bizarre twist, it becomes clear that the Church is also making a film about...

Directed By: John Dower

Written By: Louis Theroux, John Dower

  • 2017
  • Not Rated
  • Magnolia Pictures
  • 1 h 39 m
  • 2017
  • Not Rated
  • Magnolia Pictures
  • 1 h 39 m

My Scientology Movie

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 12 Critic Reviews
62
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 14 User Ratings
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Summary Inspired by the Church of Scientology’s use of filming techniques, and aided by ex-members of the organization Louis Theroux uses actors to replay some incidents people claim they experienced as members in an attempt to better understand the way it operates. In a bizarre twist, it becomes clear that the Church is also making a film about...

Directed By: John Dower

Written By: Louis Theroux, John Dower

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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67% Positive
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33% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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33% Mixed
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80
Oct 10, 2016
It's all wickedly tendentious mischief, but when it's this gloriously funny, the points score themselves.
By Tim Robey FULL REVIEW
75
Mar 8, 2017
It’s hardly the last word on this scam and its hilarious embrace of the “Duck Soup” uniforms and the addled imagination and crackpot ideas of L. Ron Hubbard. But that’s the point.
By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW

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7% Negative
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70
Mar 9, 2017
As he uses Rathbun’s old tactics against his observers, Theroux raises troubling questions about psychological warfare and how devoutness shades into fanaticism.
By Noel Murray FULL REVIEW
70
Mar 9, 2017
My Scientology Movie relies on a shaggy, meandering charm. At times it plays like an extended skit on “The Daily Show”; yet its disorder also makes its insights — like how strongly the church’s training sessions resemble acting classes — feel refreshingly organic.
By Jeannette Catsoulis FULL REVIEW
63
Feb 16, 2017
What enlivens My Scientology is Theroux himself: watching him stumble from one idea to the next, interact with intense actors pulling their best Tom Cruise grins, butt heads with Rathbun, bicker with church insiders and throw their own idiotic lingo back in their faces.
By John Semley FULL REVIEW
50
Mar 8, 2017
This stunt-driven nonfiction project rearranges the well-reported dirt on the church, placing it into the context of something considerably less useful: a documentary about how hard it is to make a documentary about Scientology.
By A.A. Dowd FULL REVIEW
40
Mar 29, 2017
Theroux (who co-wrote with director Dower) manages to dredge up some new, albeit not particularly revelatory, intel on the litigation-happy group, and the tack they take to get there is interesting in and of itself.
By Marc Savlov FULL REVIEW
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Production Company BBC Film, Red Box Films
Release Date Mar 10, 2017
Duration 1 h 39 m
Rating Not Rated
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Website http://www.myscientologymovie.com/
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Awards

Golden Trailer Awards
• 2 Nominations
Empire Awards, UK
• 1 Nomination
Ivor Novello Awards
• 1 Nomination

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