The Independent: My Scientology Movie, review: Louis Theroux finally meets his match in his new documentary

This crafty, enjoyable and illuminating documentary comes at the Church Of Scientology from an unexpected angle. Louis Theroux is not a polemicist, out to attack Scientology. Instead, he portrays himself as a curious bystander, simply trying to understand the inner workings of the Church regarded by many as a cult.

Theroux begins by issuing an “open call” on Twitter to “any #Scientologists out there” to contact him. (“Don’t go there big man,” one respondent warns him. “Prepare for the loonies to attack you”, says another while he is also told that he will need to lawyer up.) His dream, he says with only mild irony, is to become the first journalist to see another “positive” side of the church.

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