"It has been a season of cults and extreme religious visions," writes Andy Webster in the New York Times. "Vera Farmiga wrestles with faith in Higher Ground, and Elizabeth Olsen escapes a charismatic leader's grip in Martha Marcy May Marlene. In Preston Miller's dramedy God's Land, a commune of Taiwanese immigrants in Garland, Tex, waits for a spaceship to descend and deliver it to the promised land. Or dimension, rather." Ultimately, Webster finds that "Miller is far too leisurely — and takes far too much time — with a story largely blind to the sometimes fatal cost of fanaticism."
For Andrew Schenker, writing in Slant, "while Miller has his share of fun reveling in the absurdity of the group's belief system and behaviors, he's far more interested in both the fraught interaction of alien cultures and the emotional toll the need to believe can exact on individuals and families. Organized into...
For Andrew Schenker, writing in Slant, "while Miller has his share of fun reveling in the absurdity of the group's belief system and behaviors, he's far more interested in both the fraught interaction of alien cultures and the emotional toll the need to believe can exact on individuals and families. Organized into...
- 10/28/2011
- MUBI
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