EXPELLED: No Intelligence Allowed Critic Reviews

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Variety | Justin ChangAdd Critic to Favorites

While roving interviewer Ben Stein extracts some choice soundbites from scientists on both sides of the creation-vs.-evolution debate, the film's flippant approach undermines the seriousness of its discourse, trading less in facts than in emotional appeals.Read the full review

Los Angeles Times | Mark OlsenAdd Critic to Favorites

As a work of nonfiction filmmaking it is a sham and as agitprop it is too flimsy to strike any serious blows.Read the full review

The Hollywood Reporter | Frank ScheckAdd Critic to Favorites

Managing to make the films of Michael Moore and Morgan Spurlock look like dry, scholarly treatises by comparison, Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed more than lives up to its subtitle.Read the full review

The New York Times | Jeannette CatsoulisAdd Critic to Favorites

Expelled is an unprincipled propaganda piece that insults believers and nonbelievers alike.Read the full review

Entertainment Weekly | Adam MarkovitzAdd Critic to Favorites

Regardless of your personal views, Expelled's heavy-handed bias (a visit to Darwin's home gets the same eerie music as a tour of Dachau) is exasperating.Read the full review

The Onion (A.V. Club) | Steven HydenAdd Critic to Favorites

Surely there's a more nuanced argument to be made in favor of ID than pinning the old "bad as Hitler" canard on pro-evolution scientists?Read the full review

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