The Crucible

"Apasionada versión de la obra de Arthur Miller que te hará hervir la sangre. (...) Recomiendo altamente la obra de Hytner, pero una parte de mí se resiste a una obra que hace que la audiencia nos sintamos tan nobles en nuestra certeza moral como los personajes que nos invitan a detestar. Parte de su poder parece tomarlo prestado de aquello que odia." 

"It is precisely by leaving Arthur Miller's 1953 play so emphatically in the Salem, Mass., of 1692 that Mr. Hytner's vibrant screen version succeeds so well in transcending time and place. (...) Handsome and impassioned, vigorously staged" 

"A superb cast headed by Daniel Day-Lewis, Winona Ryder, Paul Scofield, Joan Allen, and Bruce Davison do a fine job of making it work (...) It has plenty to say about sexual repression and puritanical hysteria" 

"The characters I believed in most were Elizabeth Proctor, the Rev. Hale, and Judge Danforth (...) Too many of the others seem like fictional puppets (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)" 

"As vividly imagined as 'The Crucible' is, it’s up to the actors to animate the stern Puritan cadences of Miller’s dialogue. They bring it off spectacularly" 

"[It] possesses the power to stir up wrenching emotion through its elemental crises and conflicts. But neither the establishing dramatic linchpin nor the final conversion of conscience is terribly convincing" 

"Despite some damaging cuts to the text, is a seductively exciting film that crackles with visual energy, passionate provocation and incendiary acting"