Review

My Scientology Movie

The intrepid Louis Theroux seeks to understand Scientology by re-enacting its rituals in My Scientology Movie, which is screening next week at Little Rock’s Ron Robinson Theater.
The intrepid Louis Theroux seeks to understand Scientology by re-enacting its rituals in My Scientology Movie, which is screening next week at Little Rock’s Ron Robinson Theater.

Documentarian Louis Theroux looks like John Oliver, host of HBO's Last Week Tonight. But before you assume Theroux -- son of famous travel writer Paul, nephew to novelists Alexander and Peter, and cousin to screenwriter-actor Justin -- is somehow capitalizing on his physical resemblance to the comedian/news reader, consider that he has been conducting awkward interviews and investigating curious subcultures since the '90s when he was a correspondent for Michael Moore's TV Nation series. He has explored the Westboro Baptist Church, American neo-Nazis and ultra-Zionists in Israel for the BBC.

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Louis Theroux recruits actors to re-create important moments in the history of Scientology for his documentary My Scientology Movie, a tactic that brings him under the scrutiny of the controversial religious organization.

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