El Crimen del Padre Amaro Reviews
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Bernal, with his sweet man-boy looks, makes Padre Amaro's portrait of corruption all the more flabbergasting in its irony.
Read the full reviewMay be morally tangled, pessimistic, lurid and foreboding, but it's also humanistic.
Read the full reviewConveys the character of this tiny, insular community through richness of detail.
Read the full reviewIt's more of a melodrama, a film that doesn't say priests are bad but observes that priests are human and some humans are bad.
Read the full reviewNot 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.
Read the full reviewA suds-filled political melodrama that bashes the Roman Catholic Church in Mexico with a contempt that verges on hysteria, could be accused of many things, but timidity is not one of them.
Read the full reviewThe remarkable things about the new film, adapted by Vicente Leñero and directed by Carlos Carrera, are how smoothly it has been transposed to today's Mexico and how far good acting and skillful directing have gone toward tempering those melodramatic roots.
Read the full reviewThe real crime is the way that the movie turns Gael García Bernal, the hot-tempered, Roman-lipped costar of ''Y Tu Mamá También, into a backwater Freddie Prinze Jr.
Read the full reviewHowever 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, rather than a collection of dramatized issues.
Read the full reviewRespectably crafted to avoid lurid excess, feature is nonetheless a bit potboilerish in its pileup of sexy, violent, duplicitous circumstances that plague the consciences of latter-day clergymen.
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The Metascore® designation for this movie is 60
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