Streep and Hoffman inhabit their roles to the fullest. Even for actors in their league, parts as rich as these don't appear too often.
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12/31/08
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.
Runtime: 1 hr 44 mins
Genre: Dramas
Theatrical Release:Dec 12, 2008 Limited
Box Office: $33,422,556
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
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Reviews for Doubt
If the movie has a skeleton which betrays its artifice and deliberateness, its actors give it real human flesh and blood.
12/31/08
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.
12/31/08
Is that it? Call me crazy for expecting a more tidy resolution of this ultimately unsatisfying parable, in spite of a taut plotline and several inspired performances.
12/31/08
John Patrick Shanley's Doubt left me less moved than querulously dissatisfied despite the impressive performances of Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, and Viola Davis in all the key roles.
12/31/08
Top CriticThe problem is Shanley as he's too close. He should have relinquished the helm to someone else, perhaps Riker or Piccard.
12/31/08
I never spent time in a Catholic church and school, and Doubt makes me happy I can observe that world for a couple hours and leave it at that.
12/31/08
Most movies would jump right to the yelling. Doubt lets things simmer for a while, with electrifying results.
12/30/08
Showcases some of the finest screen acting of the year.
12/30/08
This adaptation of the acclaimed, award-winning stage play doesn't quite live up to its expectations. With this material and this cast we expect bigger and better things. This drama is only, merely watchable.
12/30/08
Blessedly, the kernel of the writing remains undisturbed, and its arguments are still powerful.
12/30/08
Doubt, it appears, can be just as simplistic and dull in drama as dogma.
12/30/08
This is the sort of hand-to-hand acting we see only at Oscar time.
12/30/08
Doubt is a good movie that features great performances and great moments.
12/29/08
This is acting as contact sport.
12/29/08
The face-offs between these two form the foundation of Doubt, a close- quartered but psychologically expansive film directed and written for the screen by John Patrick Shanley, based on his Pulitzer Prize-winning stage play.
12/29/08
Superbly acted yet ultimately underwhelming...
12/29/08
This Doubt is big, glossy and dramatic. And pretty fulfilling, I guess.
12/29/08
As a person who had the glasses literally slapped from his face by a Roman Catholic sister in elementary school, I can testify that it's hard to exaggerate when portraying a nun.
12/29/08
What fascinated me about Doubt were two peripheries: The blatant sexism of the 1960s Catholic church and the anguish of a terribly conflicted mother, played by Viola Davis.
12/26/08
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