The Best Movies of 2024—Variety

The Best Documentaries of 2024—Variety

  • “A GREAT AND POWERFUL AND TIMELY FILM, filled with the dread this moment engenders; the cynical misuse of religion to advance aims diametrically the opposite of Christianity’s mission.”

    KEN BURNS

  • “BAD FAITH IS THE SCARIEST FILM I’VE SEEN IN A LONG TIME.”

    OWEN GLEIBERMAN in VARIETY April 3, 2024

  • “BAD FAITH FEELS LIKE A TERRIFYING POLITICAL THRILLER.”

    DESERT SUN

  • “TRUST ME WHEN I TELL YOU THIS: IT IS A MUST-SEE AND IT WILL TERRIFY YOU."

    STEVE SCHMIDT

  • “BAD FAITH IS A CRISP AND CRACKLING CLARION CALL about the dangers Christian Nationalism poses for American democracy. Made with passion and elan, it couldn't be more timely.”

    KENNETH TURAN

  • “AN X-RAY OF OUR CIVILIZATION TURNING UNCIVIL.”

    HUBERT SAUPER

  • “THIS IS ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC. Very sharp and specific.”

    TIM COGSHELL, FilmWeek KPPC NPR

  • “THE MOST THOROUGH FILM EXAMINATION OF THIS MOVEMENT AND ITS AUTHORITARIAN BENT.”

    ROGER MOORE, Film Nation

  • “WOW, THIS COULD NOT BE ANY TIMLIER THAN IT IS…. A VERY INSIGHTFUL LOOK.”

    ANDY KLEIN, FilmWeek KPPC NPR

  • “THIS IS A VERY SCARY MOVIE, and the scariest part is that the people it is about will never see themselves in it.”

    NELL MINOR, Movie Mom

  • “WELL-CONSTRUCTED, EASY TO UNDERSTAND, AND FRANKLY TERRIFYING.”

    JEANINE T. ABRAHAM, VisAbleBlackwoman (Medium)

  • “Stephen Ujlaki's documentary is a terrifying wake-up call...“

    DENNIS HARVEY, 48 Hills

The forces tearing apart our democracy have never been more frightening or powerful, but who is actually behind them? BAD FAITH reveals how Christian Nationalist leaders have spread fear and anger for decades, distorting political issues into Biblical battles between good and evil. Financed through the secretive Council for National Policy, Christian Nationalists have succeeded in taking over the Republican Party, turning it into a powerful weapon to demolish democracy from within. Discover the origins of this organized grasp for power and the grassroots coalition of secular and interfaith leaders bravely confronting the unholy forces threatening democracy.