Being a teenager at church camp sucks. Good performances by Natalia Dyer and Timothy Simons

this is the kind of movie that makes you hate literally every single person in the movie except the main character

Neither bad nor good.

Doesn't take sides explicitly but obviously points to hypocrisy of attitudes towards sex

It's decent and Natalia Dyer does a good job in the lead role but it doesn't really have anything that makes it stand out. These kinds of coming-of-age stories exist in multitudes.
[spoiler]Imho this had too much "normalized sex" in it. If she was really brought up firmly catholic she would have behaved a lot more reluctantly in many of the scenes. Same goes for other people in the camp; eg. giving head in places where they can easily be spotted or the Father jacking-off without any precautions..?
Another big miss for me to have her "adult life-guidance scene" in lesbian bar... I'd assume a catholic camp in this period would be far away from a place like this, nor would there be such a big local scene... felt more like forced progressiveness.
Also the hairy arms on Wolfgang Novogratz... so unnaturally fake that I have no idea what the thought process was. Were they afraid it wouldn't show in the light?[/spoiler]

Great film. Natalie Dryer's facial expressions stole the show: she would do well on The Office. The villains in this movie had me so genuinely mad. It was quite an achievement.

Reminded me of my time at my catholic school. Catholicism and Christianity is a joke lol.

Actually quite an honest depiction of the uneven balance between trying to stay true to God and trying to come to terms with sexual desires. Its funny, provocative, and insightful.

Things I liked: Netflix's Everything Sucks vibe; cool use of music/lyrics in somes scenes... This would be a comedy version of the miseducation of Cameron Post? No way. I believe my wife loves the same scene from Titanic.

The description alone makes this movie unwatchable. And I'm not talking about the fact that using an AOL chat to tempt someone into masturbating is highly unlikely (are there really people under the age of 50 using those?)

The comparisons to Saved will be numerous, but that's likely just because there aren't a ton of Jesus camp/school comedies out there (which kind of blows my mind because there's so much material that could be mined). This quick, little film has a lot of funny moment AND points out the hypocrisy & gaslighting that is standard practice in too many christian settings. I loved it, but at the same time had a few too many PTSD flashbacks to my own church camp experiences, reminding me again why I ran so far away from all that. Christian or not, there's a ton to like here and you'll probably only dislike it if your identity is a little too tied up in your evangelical belief system.

was okay dokay, BLAS PHOM Y!!!!!

_Shame_ for the evangelical teen set, _Yes, God, Yes_ is like shaving my balls with a lady razor: I don't see this kind of thing every day, but it was pretty much what I expected.

Sobering, endearing, and downright comedic. Yes, God, Yes might might just be one of my favorite films I've seen this year! Stellar performances from the cast and an amazing script to back it up. It says in 76 minutes what many movies struggle to do in 120. I don't think there's an excuse not to give this movie a try and bust you gut open laughing

Natalia Dyer stars in Yes, God, Yes, a rather lackluster and dull coming-of-age film. The story follows a young high school girl named Alice who’s coming into sexual maturity and goes on a religious retreat looking for answers, but finds that most of her peers aren’t practicing what they preach. Dyer gives a fairly decent performance but the rest of the cast is pretty weak. And for some reason it’s told as a period piece set in the early 2000s, with AOL being Alice’s gateway to internet sex education. Also, it just does a poor job at discussing religion and sex – building a strawman argument. Yet while Yes, God, Yes has its problems, it’s addressed some interesting issues that teens deal with.

It gets some points from me for not holding back on the exceedingly high levels of hypocrisy that stem from Christians. But other than that it's just an average movie.

Good movie. Feels similar to Eight Grade in tone and subject matter (although not as good).

It's well directed, and the acting & casting is phenomenal - everyone acts like an awkward Catholic high-schooler. Critical of the hypocrisy of religion without being too overtly anti-religious.

Overall, worth a watch if you have an hour.