Religulous

The truth is near.

Comedian Bill Maher teams up with the director of Borat to take a look at religion around the world. Focusing mainly on religions familiar to western audiences, he interviews assorted believers, asking them difficult questions about what they believe and why. Naturally the interviewees do end up looking rather silly, as Bill inserts subtitles and video clips in the editing room to express his opinion on their views.

102 minutes.
No persons under 18 (Language, Prejudice, Blasphemy).
Documentary, On the art circuit

Not currently showing on the local cinema circuit.

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Credits

Cast	Bill Maher, Steve Burg, George Coyne, Jerry Cummings
Director	Larry Charles
Screenplay	Bill Maher
Cinematography	Anthony Hardwick
Editing	Jeff Groth, Christian Kinnard, Jeffrey M. Werner
Sound formats	Dolby Digital
Soundtrack	Available
Made in	2008
Produced by	Thousand Words

Film and Publications Board (FPB) Report (SA)

Genre	Documentary, religious
Language	Strong
Nudity	Brief
Sex	Innuendo in language
Violence	Moderate
Prejudice	Strong
Blasphemy	Strong
Drug abuse	None
Comments	None
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ScreenIt Report (USA)

Sex / Nudity	Violence	Blood / Gore / Gross
Guns / Weapons	Profanity	Alcohol / Drugs
Smoking	Disrespectful / Bad Attitude	Imitative Behaviour
Frightening / Tense Scenes	Jump Scenes	Tense Family Scenes
Music (Scary/Tense)	Music (Inappropriate)	Topics to talk about

Ratings

Scale (Max)	20
What the Critics say
Cape Argus / The Star Zane Henry	10
Die Burger Le Roux Schoeman	10
Cape Times Kenneth Turan	1
The Citizen David Jenkin	18
Sunday Times Barry Ronge	10
24.com Ivan Sadler	10
Chicago Sunday Times Roger Ebert Bill Maher offers his opinionated take on the world’s religions, and it’s not going to please true believers of any stripe.	18
eye Weekly Adam Nayman Larry Charles' Religulous is a semi-documentary that uses the majority of its subjects as punchlines in a joke they're not in on.	5
ReelViews James Berardinelli On the whole, however, the occasional chuckles provoked by the movie don't make up for its sloppy, less-than-rigorous examination of an issue that deserves something more exhaustive. If the subject of religion is as important to Maher as he claims during his end comments, then he should have followed those words with actions and made a movie that's more than a sum of inauthentic interviews, ranting attacks, and obvious observations.	10
ScreenIt C. Fuchs On the Road to Nowhere, courtesy of the Talking Heads.	10
Metacritic.com 30 critics	11
Rottentomatoes critics 108 critics	13
Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer Religulous is funny and offensive in equal measure, and aims less to change hearts and minds than to inspire conversation.	14
What the People say
Internet 4687 Netizens Fantastic	15
Average .. 55%	11