Pray for Japan
Metascore
53 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 4 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 4
  3. Negative: 0 out of 4
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  1. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Ernest Hardy
    Mar 13, 2012
    80
    Filmed over a period of six weeks and supplemented with animated music sequences and chilling news footage of the terrifying deluge, Pray is both an elegy and a love letter.
  2. Variety
    Reviewed by: Justin Chang
    Mar 19, 2012
    50
    It's hard not to be moved by the words of love, gratitude and resilience spoken by earthquake/tsunami survivors and volunteers in Pray for Japan. But well-meaning platitudes go only so far in this sincerely felt, raggedly structured compilation of footage.
  3. NPR
    Reviewed by: Mark Jenkins
    Mar 19, 2012
    50
    The movie is less than incisive, but it's utterly well-meaning.
  4. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Jeannette Catsoulis
    Mar 16, 2012
    50
    If making a decent movie required only good intentions, then Pray for Japan would be off and running. As it is, though, this muddled collage of random impressions and personal histories, emerging from last year's destruction of the Tohoku coastline by the earthquake and tsunami, doesn't document a tragedy so much as repeat a mantra.

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