Bible Quiz

Like that well-received look at participants in the national spelling bee competition, "Bible Quiz" captures the ups and downs of several young people as they fight their way towards a national competition of memory prowess. Besides the inherent drama found in any well-told contest tale, or even the sweet depiction of puppy love harbored by the film's lead figure, Mikayla Irl, for her teammate, JP O'Connor, "Bible Quiz" presents two other interesting elements of tension in its narrative. Mikayla's home life may have much to do with her priorities and perspective: her mother is an absent alcoholic, her dad, divorced from her mother, is supportive in everything but Bible Quiz. [...]her drive to excel, which is to say, learn by heart reams and reams of Bible verses and knowledge, is driven more by her desire to impress JP than to know the Word of God.