Among the Believers
| Release Date: September 30, 2016 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
74
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 10 Critic Reviews
Positive:
8
Mixed:
2
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
IndieWireCasey CiprianiSep 29, 2016
With ideological clashes that span countries, Among the Believers offers an intricate and frightening look into the microcosm of our current world’s biggest international issue. Read full review
80
Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleOct 6, 2016
There’s little that’s not dispiriting about Among the Believers and its measured, direct entrée into a closed world of hopeless boys and girls memorizing the Koran, but forbidden from learning its meanings. Read full review
80
Time Out LondonHayley JoyesSep 29, 2016
The use of education as a tool to enforce an ardent religious ideology upon children is what’s most distressing here (remember Malala Yousafzai?), and the filmmakers back up their investigations with testimony from key speakers in the Pakistani academic communities and a young girl who ran away from her local madrassa training programme. Read full review
80
Screen DailyDavid D'ArcySep 29, 2016
There’s enough cinema in Among the Believers to set it a step above solid respectable investigation. Read full review
80
VarietyRonnie ScheibSep 29, 2016
The filmmakers quietly expose conflicts and contradictions without the intrusion of voiceover, and with only occasional intertitles furnishing factual information. Read full review
80
Village VoiceDiana ClarkeSep 29, 2016
Each person’s actions here are not theirs alone, but part of a network of complicated needs and conflicting ideologies that make up contemporary Pakistan. Some of the stories are difficult to hear, but they must be listened to. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeSep 29, 2016
Among the Believers is a step toward understanding how such a man can be entrusted with such a large percentage of a nation's children. Read full review
70
The New York TimesKen JaworowskiSep 29, 2016
The directors let their subjects speak without overtly passing judgment. Read full review
60
The GuardianJordan HoffmanDec 8, 2015
What I like about Among the Believers, a portrait of radical Islam in Pakistan, is how the first two-thirds of the movie strives to remain as balanced as possible. Read full review
50
The PlaylistNikola GrozdanovicSep 29, 2016
By pointing their camera at the Red Mosque, Trivedi and Naqvi add surprisingly little to the conversation. Read full review
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