I'm still shaking my head over the implausible way this film ends.
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12/13/08
Doubt (2008)
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Reviews Counted:204
Fresh:158
Rotten:46
Average Rating:6.9/10
Consensus: Doubt succeeds on the strength of its top-notch cast, who successfully guide the film through the occasional narrative lull.
Theatrical Release:06-02-2009
Synopsis: John Patrick Shanley brings his Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning play to the screen as a gripping story about the quest for truth, the forces of change, and the devastating consequences of... [More]
Starring: Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, Viola Davis
Director: John Patrick Shanley
Reviews for Doubt
121 - 140 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
Doubt still creaks a bit of the stage, displaying the kind of tidy narrative geometry that's easier to pull off in the acknowledged artifice of live theater than in the feigned intimacy of cinema.
12/12/08
Shanley's play would seem ideally suited for the scrutiny of a camera. But if anything, the film feels less nuanced, bulldozed by Streep's take-no-prisoner performance.
12/12/08
Objectively good, but that doesn't mean I enjoy it. I mean, woo hoo, debating suspicions of pedophilia in the Catholic church!
12/12/08
Doubt offers up the crackling pleasures of performance and a narrative that snaps shut like a mousetrap. It's the movie equivalent of a rousing night at the theater.
12/12/08
This is a simple story simply told. Doubt's pleasures are crackling dialogue, top-rate acting, provocative themes and serious convictions.
12/12/08
The movie is a mystery tour of human motives, and a cautionary tale about the dangers of being sure.
12/12/08
A taut, high-stakes game of cat-and-mouse drives the absorbing psychological thriller Doubt.
12/12/08
Doubt strikes a deeper chill in our hearts than the creepiest thriller.
12/12/08
Every element of Doubt is in perfect balance.
12/12/08
Doubt is a commendable rendering of John Patrick Shanley's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama.
12/12/08
Crammed with great performances and authentic period detail (you can almost smell the cafeteria food and the mimeograph ink), it's a fine adaptation of a provocative play. Shanley should feel proud of himself.
12/12/08
Meryl Streep is frighteningly good as Sister Aloysius, the fire-breathing principal of a 1964 Bronx parochial school in John Patrick Shanley's powerful but stagy Doubt.
12/12/08
Shanley paints a shaded picture where even a final, spontaneous act of contrition contains multitudes of meaning.
12/12/08
If you're going to set a faith-vs.-uncertainty debate in the heart of a church milieu, shouldn't some of the characters at least mention the beliefs that they've not just dedicated their lives to, but built them around?
12/12/08
The movie is less than the sum of its parts.
12/12/08
As a consideration of faith and propriety, the movie never managed to boil my blood or break my heart.
12/12/08
This is a film bound to provoke differing interpretations and lively conversation at the cafe or in the car after it's over. A movie that's rewarding to think and talk about: That's the nicest Christmas present you can give a moviegoer.
12/12/08
Stage-to-film religious drama tackles weighty issues.
12/12/08
Doubt has Oscar buzz stamped on every frame - for good reason.
12/12/08
Latest News for Doubt
May 25, 2009:
If Shanley is condemning any rush to judgment, why is the deck so solidly stacked, not just against Streep's shrew, but all the women? Not to mention dismissing priest pedophilia as a conspiracy theory by mean nuns, considering the alarming public record. 
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January 14, 2009:
Oprah Sought Viola Davis' Role in Doubt
Eager to share a screen with Meryl Streep, Oprah Winfrey approached "Doubt" director John Patrick Shanley about a role in the film -- but, as Winfrey recently told a surprised... More...
January 08, 2009:
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