Doubt

Rating:	★★★★★
Category:	Movies
Genre:	Drama

"I had... such doubts."
- Sister Aloysius

Plot:
Set in 1964 at a Catholic church in the Bronx, the film opens with Father Flynn (Phillip Seymour Hoffman) giving a sermon on the nature of doubt, noting that, like faith, it can be a unifying force. That evening, Sister Aloysius (Meryl Streep), the strict headmistress of the attached school, discusses the sermon with her fellow Sisters of Charity of New York nuns. She asks if anyone has observed unusual behavior to give Father Flynn cause for preaching about doubt, and instructs them to keep their eyes open for any such behavior.

They Say:
Based on 130 reviews collected by Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 76% approval rating. The site reported in a consensus that "Doubt succeeds on the strength of its top-notch cast, who successfully guide the film through the occasional narrative lull." Another review aggregator, Metacritic, gave the film a 70/100 approval rating based on 34 reviews. Critic Manohla Dargis of the New York Times concluded that "the air is thick with paranoia in 'Doubt,' but nowhere as thick, juicy, sustained or sustaining as Meryl Streep's performance."

I Say:
The film gave me goosebumps. It was horrifying. Yet another one of those movies with narrative plot but, this time, with a strong element of suspense. The actors were good at their parts.
Somehow, the story was static at first. Yes, the scenes were not new to me since I was a Catholic before. But it couldn't be any more sinusoidal at the middle, where pressure and tension was crushing the scenes at all directions. And they shouted as if they were from Ancient Sparta. No, I'm not talking at the negative sense.