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" 'Of Gods and Men' [is] a beautiful, somber and rigorously intelligent new film…movies that try to illuminate religious experience from within constitute a tiny and exalted tradition, in which Mr. Beauvois's story of faith under duress clearly belongs…The theme may be piety, but Mr. Beauvois and his cast do not address it piously. 'Of Gods and Men' is supple and suspenseful, appropriately austere without being overly harsh, and without forgoing the customary pleasures of cinema. The performances are strong, the narrative gathers momentum as it progresses, and the camera is alive to the beauty of the Algerian countryside."
--A. O. Scott, The New York Times
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