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Sound of My Voice

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California couple Peter (Christopher Denham) and Lorna (Nicole Vicius) set out to make a documentary meant to expose a charismatic cult leader named Maggie (Brit Marling) as a fraud. Maggie claims to be from the year 2054 and is seemingly allergic to almost everything in her environment; she lives in a basement, subsisting on canned oxygen, homegrown food and the blood of her acolytes. Though at first, Peter and Lorna are adamant that Maggie is a fake, they both soon fall under her spell.
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Scott Foundas Film Comment Magazine Jun 20, 2013
Sound of My Voice is a too-rare example of intelligent, ambitious genre filmmaking. Go to Full Review Jake Wilson The Age (Australia) Nov 22, 2012
3/5
Either Maggie is the real deal, or she's lying, or we never find out. In any case, anticlimax seems inevitable. Go to Full Review Tim Robey Daily Telegraph (UK) Aug 3, 2012
3/5
[A] bumpy but watchable cult-penetration thriller. Go to Full Review Patrick Cavanaugh The Wolfman Cometh Sep 22, 2023
4/5
Walks the fine line of something psychological and supernatural, not only keeping the audience invested throughout, but also delivers a fulfilling explanation for the mysterious situation. Go to Full Review David Reddish Queerty Mar 20, 2022
3.5/4
As with much of Marlings work, audiences can read all the plot points of the movie in more than one way, which only adds to the hypnotic, beguiling quality of the story. But, as with many of lifes questions, the mystery might be an answer unto itself. Go to Full Review David Bax Battleship Pretension Mar 4, 2021
Sound of My Voice is the first feature from a young director and these drawbacks are indicative of that greenness. Still, Batmanglij has made a better-than-average genre film that does exactly what genre films are supposed to do. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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Logan D @Greynomad38 Jun 29, 2026 Two documentary filmmakers decide to investigate a cult and find themselves drawn to the leader, a woman (Brit Marling) who claims to be from the future. Exercising narrative restraint, the key draw to this film is Marling's performance. She's a master of understated delivery and the audience finds itself wanting to believe her. But under it all is a sense of menace Marling allows to seep though occasionally. The abrupt ending may not satisfy some viewers but I saw the film as examining the nature of belief rather than if the beliefs themselves are true. See more Jeffrey P @vanillavoodoo1 Mar 21, 2026 A bit of a different spin on the cultist sub-genre with a tinge of sci-fi to it. See more Stoner J @Stoner Feb 11, 2024 Interesting enough to watch but a completely incomplete and lackluster ending! See more Raul M @raulmeloferreira Dec 14, 2023 Astonishing Jesus Christ updated story See more Sam L @RT97139741 Dec 8, 2023 An extraordinary film. Brilliantly acted, and filmed, it's atmospheric, and mysterious, and plays it cards close to the vest. I think the main reason for a lot of the bad reviews is a dislike of an ending that feels like a letdown. It's actually a brilliant and perfect ending and a gut punch, but, like every other Marling/Batmanglij piece, you have to let go of expectations, let the film absorb you, and be comfortable with ambiguity and paradox. See more Andy B @AndyB21 May 28, 2022 An interesting and well acted but anticlimactic and very slow cult movie. Too much is left unexplained to make it any more than a curiosity. See more Read all reviews
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Zal Batmanglij

Director

Christopher Denham

Peter

Nicole Vicius

Lorna

Brit Marling

Maggie

Avery Kristen Pohl

Abigail Pritchett

Davenia McFadden

Carol Briggs

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Synopsis California couple Peter (Christopher Denham) and Lorna (Nicole Vicius) set out to make a documentary meant to expose a charismatic cult leader named Maggie (Brit Marling) as a fraud. Maggie claims to be from the year 2054 and is seemingly allergic to almost everything in her environment; she lives in a basement, subsisting on canned oxygen, homegrown food and the blood of her acolytes. Though at first, Peter and Lorna are adamant that Maggie is a fake, they both soon fall under her spell.
Director
Zal Batmanglij
Producer
Hans Ritter, Brit Marling, Shelley Surpin
Screenwriter
Zal Batmanglij, Brit Marling
Distributor
Fox Searchlight
Production Co
Skyscraper Films
Rating
R (Language|Brief Drug Use|Some Sexual References)
Genre
Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Apr 27, 2012, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Mar 1, 2013
Box Office (Gross USA)
$405.6K
Runtime
1h 24m
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