The Guardian
An uneven blend of news program, suspense narrative and toward the end, somewhat saccharine self-help exercise.
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RogerEbert.com
Holy Hell should have dug a lot deeper and told its story with a lot more finesse. What happened?
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The New York Times
Mr. Allen structures the revelations well, with a slow build that mimics a naïve member’s immersion into the sect.
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A.V. Club
The film leaves you wanting to know much more than its offhand footage and scant 100 minutes can provide.
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BBC
Holy Hell has a flaw, and it’s that the movie buys into the idea that the Buddhafield was a mixture of the good and the bad.
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Screen Daily
Even by cult documentary standards, this one finds absurd depths in the peddling of enlightenment.
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Variety
One of the decade’s strangest and most unsettling documentaries, especially given its as-yet-unwritten ending.
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Village Voice
Will Allen’s sunny gut-punch cult exposé Holy Hell plays like a thriller... but Allen never cheats in the interest of suspense.
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Holy Hell is available to stream in New Zealand now on DocPlay.