After Alex Gibney’s new documentary, “Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief,” debuted to a standing ovation at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, representatives for the Church of Scientology slammed the film as “false information.”
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As for the film itself, critics were enamored with Gibney’s work. “Going Clear” was hailed as “jaw-dropping” and a “game changer.” It will air on HBO in March. “We have probably 160 lawyers [looking at the film],” HBO’s president of documentary films, Sheila Nevins, told The Hollywood Reporter in December.