“Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed,” a movie now in theaters, is “a conspiracy-theory rant masquerading as investigative inquiry,” says New York Times reviewer Jeannette Catsoulis.

Positing the theory of intelligent design as a valid scientific hypothesis, the film frames the refusal of “big science” to agree as nothing less than an assault on free speech and interviewees claim that questioning Darwinism led to their expulsion from the scientific fold.

“‘Expelled’ is an unprincipled propaganda piece that insults believers and nonbelievers alike. In its fudging, eliding and refusal to define terms, the movie proves that the only expulsion here is of reason itself,” she concludes.