It spreads itself too wide and too shallow, and leaves us wishing that we might have seen more of the journey that has come to define Jones’ adult life: The path to starting a family of her own.
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Slant MagazineChuck Bowen
Slant MagazineChuck Bowen
Filmmaker Cara Jones offers a poignant testament to the baggage and insecurities hounding her own life.
Jones’s former affiliation presumably helped with access; adherents seem to trust her, and some clips are credited to the church. It also gives her a complicated, at times surprisingly sympathetic outlook on the cult.
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RogerEbert.comPeter Sobczynski
RogerEbert.comPeter Sobczynski
The film is a little too scattershot for its own good, which becomes especially frustrating when some of these detours actually come across as potentially being far more interesting than the central narrative thread.