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Act of God
Directed by
Jennifer Baichwal
2009
75m
TV-G
Documentary
5
65%
20%
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A look at the metaphysical effects of being struck by lightning.
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Cast of Act of God
Paul Auster
himself
Act of God Reviews
Boston Globe
Mark Feeney
The film doesn't need a narrator, since the people whose accounts we hear speak so absorbingly. All talking heads should talk so articulately.
From the Front Row
Mattie Lucas
There's plenty of awe to go around, be it religious, scientific, or both, but Act of God remains stubbornly stuck in the world of abstract mysticism.
Spirituality & Practice
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
An alluring documentary about the shocking power and mystery of lightning in human experience.
Seattle Times
John Hartl
"It changed my way of looking at the world," says one of the survivors. That's not a bad description of the movie itself.
New York Times
Jeannette Catsoulis
Philosophically ripe but cinematically undercooked.
JWR
James Wegg
Thanks to filmmakers Jennifer Baichwal and Nick de Pencier, the after effects of these 1-in-700,000-odds' strikes are brought into horrifically mesmerizing view and accompanied by a music track ... that magically reinforces the storytelling.
NYC Movie Guru
Avi Offer
A mildly engaging documentary that feels somewhat incomplete without enough insight, revelations and thorough analysis. Ultimately, it doesn't quite find the right balance between entertaining the audience and provoking them intellectually.
Boxoffice Magazine
Matthew Nestel
Interlaces spectacular visuals with meaty chatter by various luminaries and laymen talking about life after being struck by lightning.
Slant Magazine
Joseph Jon Lanthier
The wishy-washy rotation of characters strands us in the center of the film's complex topic without much aside from useless meditation on the fierce numinousness of nature to keep us company.
Film Comment Magazine
Chris Chang
[Jennifer] Baichwal's point of view is not religious; in fact, the strength and beauty of her project resides in its stubborn insistence on agnostic fuzziness.
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
An undeniably provocative head-trip, laced with the most spectacular lightning-storm footage I've ever seen.
Variety
Ronnie Scheib
Neither filtered through nor structured around another artist's work, and suffers from the lack of a unifying vision, its parts greater than the whole.
Village Voice
Ella Taylor
Baichwal is the least judgmental of interviewers, which is a double-edged sword when the solemn testimony ("I had come to meet me") induces a barely resistible urge to laugh.
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