“Sound Of My Voice” (2012)

"Sound of My Voice," which I just watched this past weekend, is so good at depicting the seductive nature of a cult leaver/guru -- played here by Brit Marling (who also co-wrote the film) -- that, frankly, I found myself buying into her shtick. Marling plays Maggie, a woman who claims to have come from the future to save and lead a chosen few from an supposedly impending civil war. Peter, a journalist, and his girlfriend Lorna have been working undercover in hopes of revealing Maggie for the con artist they believe her to be in a documentary film. But as they get closer to Maggie, they -- and the audience -- start to wonder if she's maybe telling the truth after all....