Review – Doubt

Here’s unnecessary proof that you can take advantage of film’s ability to move easily between times and locations and still produce something as stiffly theatrical as the play upon which the picture is based. A cranky, self-righteous nun (Meryl Streep) squares off against a progressive priest (Philip Seymour Hoffman) whom she suspects of molesting boys. Though I thought the plot and most of the dialogue would have played better on the stage than it did on the screen, I did like the gloomy visual sense of the picture. And though normally I’d applaud anyone with the guts to make a morally-ambiguous movie, here I wasn’t sure if this was genuinely ambiguous or merely inept. Mildly amusing