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Pray the Devil Back to Hell
Directed by
Gini Reticker
2009
72m
Not Rated
Documentary
7.5
100%
86%
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A group of women rise up to peace to Liberia and help bring to power the country's first female head of state.
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Cast of Pray the Devil Back to Hell
Janet Johnson Bryant
Herself
Etweda Cooper
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Vaiba Flomo
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Leymah Gbowee
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Asatu Bah Kenneth
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Etty Weah
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Pray the Devil Back to Hell Reviews
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
A modest but effective work of documentary uplift.
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
Gini Reticker's embracing documentary Pray the Devil Back to Hell shows how Taylor got his comeuppance from a coalition of tenacious Christian and Muslim women armed only with matching T-shirts.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
If this were a fictional Hollywood movie, it would be criticized for being too upbeat. But sometimes truth is not only stranger than fiction, it's also a whole lot better.
AV Club
Noel Murray
Pray The Devil Back To Hell is overly conventional as a documentary, but it's inspiring as a rebuttal to the declining state of the world at large.
San Francisco Chronicle
Jonathan Curiel
This illuminating film by director Gini Reticker and producer Abigail Disney is a much-needed attempt to put the spotlight on a moment of history that still inspires.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
Pray the Devil Back to Hell is at once inspiring and horrific.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
Pray the Devil uses its brief 72 minutes to tell one of the truly heartening international political stories of recent years.
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
The film is brief and not especially creative in its storytelling, but nonetheless unforgettable; this remarkable story deserved to be captured on film.
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
Gini Reticker's simply made, affecting documentary Pray the Devil Back to Hell reveals how these heroic ordinary women prodded the factions to peace and literally brought down Taylor, a leader of sociopathic cruelty.
New York Times
Manohla Dargis
Uplifting, disheartening, inspiring, enraging -- the mind reels while watching the documentary Pray the Devil Back to Hell.
NPR.org
Bob Mondello
Without their guns, the men prove surprisingly helpless. And when a [mediator] tells them that if they want the women to stop treating them like children, they must behave responsibly, you sense a corner has been turned.
CinemaBlend
Katey Rich
An economically told, extremely powerful story.
Slant Magazine
Nick Schager
The greatest respect Gini Reticker's Pray the Devil Back to Hell pays to its war-battered Liberian subjects is simply an unwillingness to embellish.
L.A. Weekly
Tim Grierson
Some political documentaries suffer from overselling the urgency of their agenda, but director Gini Reticker's Pray the Devil Back to Hell nicely underplays the significance of its subject.
Hollywood Reporter
Frank Scheck
Relates a powerful story with intelligence, concision and a minimum of distracting stylistic flourishes.
Observer
Andrew Sarris
Even though the film is inescapably fragmented and catch-as-catch-can as cinema, its heart is pure and infinitely compassionate.
Village Voice
Tim Grierson
Pray the Devil remembers the golden rule of moviemaking -- rather than tell, it shows, and what it shows is quietly affecting.
Variety
Ronnie Scheib
Compelling docu chronicles the actions of the coalition of Christian and Muslim women who prevailed over warlords and warriors to halt the decades-long fighting that claimed their fathers, brothers, husbands and children.
Oregonian
Stan Hall
Limitations aside, it's highly stirring stuff.
Los Angeles Daily News
Bob Strauss
The story of the women's groups -- Christian and Muslim, uniting for the first time in the nation's history -- is unbelievably inspiring.
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Pray The Devil Back To Hell: Showdown
Pray The Devil Back To Hell: Showdown
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Pray The Devil Back To Hell: The Women
Pray The Devil Back To Hell: The Women
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Pray The Devil Back To Hell: Liberia Is Their Home
Pray The Devil Back To Hell: Liberia Is Their Home
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Pray The Devil Back To Hell: Director Gini Reticker
Pray The Devil Back To Hell: Director Gini Reticker
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Pray The Devil Back To Hell: Confronting Charles Taylor
Pray The Devil Back To Hell: Confronting Charles Taylor
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