Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus
Shadow Distribution | Release Date: July 13, 2005 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
58
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 14 Critic Reviews
Positive:
5
Mixed:
7
Negative:
2

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
Christian Science MonitorDavid Sterritt
A travelogue unlike any other. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleG. Allen Johnson
A beautifully shot and edited film that treats its subjects fairly. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesKevin Crust
Delightfully demented. Read full review
70
Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
Made for the BBC, this travelogue of America's southern backwoods is both blessed and cursed by its fascination with the colorful--lively alt-country sounds and fancy word spinners like novelist Harry Crews. Read full review
63
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
A movie about identity that can't quite pinpoint its own, Andrew Douglas' road-trip documentary about the Deep South does eventually meander toward audience enlightenment. Read full review
60
SalonAndrew O'Hehir
A lovely, faintly sinister travelogue. Read full review
60
The New York TimesStephen Holden
Occasionally, this richly lyrical movie passes over the line separating sympathetic exploration from freak-show condescension. Read full review
60
TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
White's take on southern life is no more "real" than the stereotypes he's trying to disrupt, just cooler. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterFrank Scheck
Ultimately fails to illuminate its subject, though it does offer some evocative moments and terrific music along the way. Read full review
50
VarietyLeslie Felperin
Ultimately, pic feels very much like a romanticized, outsider's view of the South that willfully seeks out the culture's strangest, most weirdo aspects for other outsiders' gleeful delectation. Read full review
50
Village VoiceJoshua Land
Florida-born folksinger Jim White serves as guide on this musical tour of the rural South, conceptualized less as a state of mind than as an atmosphere. Read full review
50
L.A. WeeklyScott Foundas
Far too often, Douglas indulges his preference for the superficial over the substantive: The plentiful performance footage -- shot in overproduced, music-video fashion -- overwhelms the film, as do White’s purplish, faux-poetic musings. Read full review
38
New York PostKyle Smith
By the time White gets around to condescending remarks... the film has become a sort of BBC "Hee Haw," meant to reassure Brits and New Yorkers that the South is indeed a land of pistol-toting, Jesus-praising gap-toothed freaks. Read full review
20
Film ThreatPhil Hall
Tiresome, trite and choked with every lousy Dixie-fried stereotype imaginable. Read full review
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