Reviews

• I was haunted afterward by its seething rage at the malicious paternalism and sexual hypocrisy of fundamentalist Christians.

  J.R. Jones - Chicago Reader
  
  27 May 2013

• The performance by Ross invests Jessie with a kind of zealous hope that is touching: Here is a slutty loser touched by the divine, and transformed.

  Roger Ebert - The Chicago Sun-Times
  
  27 May 2013

• Rough-edged but affecting drama.

  Maitland McDonagh - TV Guide
  
  27 May 2013

• Ms. Kampmeier never brings her themes into tight focus. At one moment, the film is a detailed but familiar attack on smothering small towns and oppressive family structures; at another, it's a fable of feminist empowerment with an oddly fervent religious background.

  Dave Kehr - The New York Times
  
  27 May 2013

• The film is never quite as startling or mysterious as it seems to want to be, leaving it in an uncertain cinematic limbo.

  Robert Koehler - Variety
  
  27 May 2013