Is God Is

Two sisters embark on an epic quest for revenge, confronting a charged family history that pushes them to extraordinary lengths.

Cast

Kara Young

as Racine

Mallori Johnson

as Anaia

Vivica A. Fox

as Ruby

Sterling K. Brown

as Man

Janelle Monáe

as Angie

Mykelti Williamson

as Chuck Hall

Erika Alexander

as Divine

Xavier Mills

as Scotch

Justen Ross

as Riley

Josiah Cross

as Ezekiel

Reviews

Brent Marchant

When movie rating aggregation sites give a film high marks, one should expect that the picture delivers the goods (after all, those grades don’t spontaneously materialize out of thin air). But there are times when a vastly overrated release inexplicably (and undeservedly) gets good grades that leave...

druscilla_of_old

Once every few years, there comes a movie that you know - you KNOW - is gonna be a genre-defining cult classic that critics (and devout fans) are gonna talk about for years and years to come. ‘Is God Is’ is one such movie. When someone recommended it to me and I watched the trailer, I knew I was gon...

-LBJ-

A really dumb movie that is aimed directly at an extremely dumb demographic. For some reason there is a small minority of people who are clapping like seals for this movie. Hmm I wonder why they are pretending to like this movie? Yup....

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