If you loved Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, try Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

What they share

Both films are directed by Alex Gibney, and they both carry the cerebral, paranoid, raw mood tags, and they sit in Documentary territory. If that's the register that drew you to Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief is

Los Angeles, a sunny afternoon, a Scientology pamphlet on a sidewalk. Ex-members recount recruitment tactics and inner workings of the church. Gibney contextualizes the church's rise within America's 1970s spiritual landscape.

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