sure, but…

Movie review:

Doubt

If certainty is your thing, this just isn’t the movie for you.

If you’re willing to share the numbing bleakness of a wish for certainty that gets chased by doubts, the little ones and the big ones, then Doubt is the ticket.

Meryl Streep is the hard-charging Sister Aloysius who’s all too ready to nail the apparent child-abusing priest in her school. Philip Seymour Hoffman is Father Flynn, who acts and talks guilty and innocent in scene after scene. Amy Adams is Sister James, who wants to believe him even though she personally experiences some of the putative evidence against him.

Doubt (2008, rated PG-13, 104 minutes) offers dramatic potency, high-class personality clashes, and deep, deep ambiguity in the final scenes that will not satisfy you, but will tie your emotions in a knot.

There’s no doubt about that.

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Book review: The Scarlet Letter

the beating hearts…by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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In other words: Poems for your eyes and ears with 64 free verse and haiku poems,

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