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Created Mar 29, 2010 07:19PM PST • Edited Mar 29, 2010 07:19PM PST

1. Quality

2. Summary

   Great 4.0

   Prodding some touchy subjects is the mainstay of Doubt, and this movie will surely keep your interest. Shanley gets his masterfully crafted story on the big screen via Streep and Seymour Hoffman’s perfectly cast roles. At the time of my writing this review, the Catholic church is in has been in the limelight over this general theme, and Doubt acts as both a deep exposer of hopeless corruption as well as a source of knowledge that the nuns are there to make things better.

4. Acting

   Really Great 4.5

   Streep and Hoffman acted with tremendous skill — top of their games to be sure. Could you imagine a scarier Catholic school principal that Streep? She’d have me shaking in my middle-school aged uniform to be sure. Hoffman clearly has a natural ability to bring out that shiny-exterior, slimy interior sort of character. Amy Adams shows promise as the innocent young nun. She really shines towards the end, when she has a chance to show some emotiion.

5. Male Stars Really Great 4.5

6. Female Stars Really Great 4.5

7. Female Costars Really Great 4.5

8. Male Costars Really Great 4.5

10. Film

    Great 4.0

    Stanley has it all down. The Irish Catholic shtick, the old-school Catholic school, and the seedier underbelly of the Catholic organization. The best part of it all is the story itself and the viewpoint from which it is told — the nuns.

11. Direction Great 4.0

12. Play Great 4.0

13. Music Great 4.0

14. Visuals Great 4.0
15. Content

16. Edge

    Sordid 3.4

    Touchy subject indeed

17. Sex Erotic 3.4

18. Violence Brutal 3.4

19. Rudeness Profane 3.4

21. Reality

    Glib 1.3

    Yeah, this stuff is really going on.

22. Circumstantial Glib 1.3

23. Biological Glib 1.3

24. Physical Glib 1.3