BrianSez's Review

Summary - Great 4.0

Prodding some touchy subjects is the mainstay of Doubt, and this movie will surely keep your interest. Shanley gets his masterfully crafted story on the big screen via Streep and Seymour Hoffman’s perfectly cast roles. At the time of my writing this review, the Catholic church is in has been in the limelight over this general theme, and Doubt acts as both a deep exposer of hopeless corruption as well as a source of knowledge that the nuns are there to make things better.

Acting - Really Great 4.5

Streep and Hoffman acted with tremendous skill — top of their games to be sure. Could you imagine a scarier Catholic school principal that Streep? She’d have me shaking in my middle-school aged uniform to be sure. Hoffman clearly has a natural ability to bring out that shiny-exterior, slimy interior sort of character. Amy Adams shows promise as the innocent young nun. She really shines towards the end, when she has a chance to show some emotiion.

Film - Great 4.0

Stanley has it all down. The Irish Catholic shtick, the old-school Catholic school, and the seedier underbelly of the Catholic organization. The best part of it all is the story itself and the viewpoint from which it is told — the nuns.

Edge - Sordid 3.4

Touchy subject indeed

Reality - Glib 1.3

Yeah, this stuff is really going on.

2 Comments

• BrianSez Mar 31, 2010 12:31PM

  Regarding BrianSez’s Review
  That’s a good one. I actually left thinking that I wasn’t sure where I stood. Hoffman is cast equally well as a bad priest as an innocent priest. If I were a betting man, I’d say guilty :)

• Wick Mar 29, 2010 9:24PM

  Regarding BrianSez’s Review
  Good review Bri. So on the vexing question of whether the Priest is what the Nun accuses him of being, you think he’s guilty? I came down on the other side.

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