"(Pop music), by nature, has always been a kind of shortcut to spiritual salvation...to the purity, the joy, the communal belief in a greater good people used to depend on church for.... And so it's a revelation to hear Al Green, in the fascinating documentary Gospel According to Al Green, talk about why he abandoned the pop-soul singing that made him a superstar in the seventies and devoted himself to gospel music (he became a Pentecostal preacher in 1977).... Green didn't turn his back on rock and roll because it was 'devil's music,' and he didn't embrace the Lord just to reach some unearthly light. In his eyes, gospel delivers what pop merely promised: it's a vision of soulful transcendence here on earth-pure musical electricity. Gospel According to Al Green, which explores the aftermath of Green's conversion, lets you share that electricity, as well as the palpable bliss of the man who generates it." Owen Gleiberman, The Boston Phoenix