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Dominican Rep. The Crime of Father Amaro
11,894
Drama
A handsome young priest, Padre Amaro (Gael Garcia Bernal) arrives in a small town and finds himself surrounded by hypocrisy and corruption--and also finds himself tempted by a beautiful young woman who confesses that when she "touches herself," she thinks of Jesus. What makes El Crimen del Padre Amaro (The Crime of Father Amaro) particularly effective is that Amaro is no innocent--he skillfully forces a newspaper publisher to retract a ... [+]
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"It's difficult to resist the sweaty passions, subversive intrigue, and Bernal's glowering, matinee-idol charisma." | POS |
United States |
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"May be morally tangled, pessimistic, lurid and foreboding, but it's also humanistic." | POS |
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United States |
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"However much the film may mirror the truth, dramatically it feels like a cheat. It omits the human spark that would make it work as a film" | NEU |
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United States |
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"Not an indictment of the Catholic Church as a whole, but a thought-provoking look at what can happen when decent individuals are seduced by the power of their position." | POS |
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United States |
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"Respectably crafted to avoid lurid excess, feature is nonetheless a bit potboilerish in its pileup of sexy, violent, duplicitous circumstances" | NEU |
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"Carrera's style is hard-hitting, lucid and technically superior" | POS |
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United States |
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"At two hours, the movie goes on too long and resolves too little -- even though it provides some interesting moments along the way" | NEU |
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