He is either innocent or guilty. I can respect a film that says we don’t always get to know the answer. But I can't respect a film, however well shot and acted, that says the answer hardly matters.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 27, 2025

An expert film, with a precision and lucidity in its intellectual quandary that few motion pictures can muster, making the experience at once entertaining and full of substance.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 5, 2024

Doubt never feels too theatrical in adapting for the screen but the powerhouse performances by the cast only serve to elevate John Patrick Shanley's script.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 1, 2024

Shanley apparently accepts everything about the world. How can an artist accomplish anything on such a basis?

| Feb 13, 2021

[W]hen every character besides Flynn lacks complexity, it's difficult for the priest to exist in a grey area.

| Dec 22, 2020

Streep's fussy, finicky performance, with all its insufferably mannered physical and vocal tics, is sheer camp... unlike Streep, [Davis] gets right inside her character and conveys an entire life history of struggle and resilience.

| Nov 19, 2020

An actor's film.

| Original Score: 4.0/4.0 | Sep 6, 2020

Doubt comes to the screen with a welcome restraint, relying as much on what is unsaid as on what is said and the kind of stylish visual juxtapositions of those suppers.

| Jan 27, 2020

Doubt is simply, engrossingly thought-provoking and, despite its subdued appearance, is one of the brightest films of the year.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 30, 2019

Both Streep and Hoffman are electric and impossible not to watch.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 2, 2019

It is an acting showcase with big questions and few answers, but for those willing to take the journey, it is an experience well worth having.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 7, 2019

The stage is set for an intense psychological drama, but perhaps that's the problem - Doubt hasn't translated well from stage to screen. With the theater's immediacy, it's easier in some ways to establish character.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 12, 2018

Don't miss it.

| Original Score: A | Sep 12, 2017

A film with a vibrant and current argument. [Full review in Spanish]

| Sep 19, 2016

I'm pretty happy with the conclusion that I've put together in my head. But, as with any certainty, I've got my doubts.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Oct 21, 2014

In a brisk 104 minutes, we meet four compelling people, establish a living breathing school environment, tackle legitimate moral dilemmas and wrestle with topics we'll spend longer than 104 minutes discussing.

| Original Score: A- | Jun 22, 2013

Streep bursts onto the scene in a shower of meteors and takes control of director John Patrick Shanley's scenario.

| Aug 16, 2011

You don't mess with two Capital-A actors when they decide to play the game of Who Can Yell The Loudest.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Apr 4, 2011

As a movie, very little actually happens. It's a lot of discussion about what might have happened or may occur in future, and then the emotional change that signals the curtain to drop and for the class to put down their pencils. The performances are st

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 15, 2009

An attention-getting bit of drama built on remarkable performances.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 9, 2009