He can not escape, in short, the hounding reality of the God whose cleverest ruse is what Binx calls «the dim dazzling trick of grace.» (religion-online.org)
It's a rather ambitious gamble: a clever ruse to lull the audience into thinking the film is just another, if not dystopian, then historical horror story. (theretroset.com)
But it's also sufficiently engrossing and funny that some viewers won't find it political or seriously critical at all, at least until its closing stretches — a clever ruse it shares with Ron Mann's documentary Go Further, an engaging piece of environmental propaganda that turned up at the Chicago International Film Festival last year and will open commercially in early December. (chicagoreader.com)