Pray the Devil Back to Hell Critic Reviews

This illuminating film by director Gini Reticker and producer Abigail Disney is a much-needed attempt to put the spotlight on a moment of history that still inspires, especially because that moment led to Taylor's exile and to Liberia's election of Africa's first female head of state.Read the full review

Gini Reticker's simply made, affecting documentary Pray the Devil Back to Hell reveals how these heroic ordinary women prodded the factions to peace and literally brought down Taylor, a leader of sociopathic cruelty.Read the full review

Powerful enough to make even the most cynical believe in the ability of ordinary people to induce political change.Read the full review

One of the truly heartening international political stories of recent years.Read the full review

Gini Reticker's lucidly impassioned film, filled with strong, eloquent spokeswomen, garnered Tribeca's docu award.Read the full review

Overly conventional as a documentary, but it's inspiring as a rebuttal to the declining state of the world at large. It's encouraging to know that the endurance of institutions like marriage and family could hold the key to keeping civilization intact.Read the full review

The longer the film goes on, the more you crave a vaster history of modern Liberia, originally a colony founded by former slaves from the United States.Read the full review

"Peace is a process, not an event," one unnamed activist says toward the end. Amen, sister.Read the full review