This is a tipping point movie. Through some pretty good work on some pretty good films, Tim Burton and Johnny Depp were able to build a deep reservoir of goodwill that saw them through some less-than-spectacular collaborations. But this film is more than a misfire. Here they’ve crossed a line into a bizarre (not in [...]
February 13, 2009 | Published in
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On the surface, John Patrick Shanley’s “Doubt”–adapted from his own Pulitzer Prize-winning play–seems to explore, with a reluctance to definitively reveal, whether or not a Catholic priest molests a boy from his parish. The critics have already begun to weigh in, some of them panning the film on grounds that Shanley uses doubt as a [...]
January 21, 2009 | Published in
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