Film Director Alex Gibney wrote for the Hollywood Reporter about Tom Cruise's visit to the Daily Show with Jon Stewart. He wrote, "I love Jon Stewart. So I was disappointed when, with only a few episodes of The Daily Show left, he didn?t confront Tom Cruise about human rights abuses in the Church of Scientology.
What a missed opportunity. For once, someone with intelligence, rhetorical skill and insight could have confronted Cruise about the engine of cruelty that drives his chosen religion and reminded the world that the smiling movie star sits idly by, effectively endorsing a longstanding and ongoing pattern of human rights abuses."