Doubt Critic Reviews

As a consideration of faith and propriety, the movie never managed to boil my blood or break my heart.Read the full review

Doubt has exact and merciless writing, powerful performances and timeless relevance. It causes us to start thinking with the first shot, and we never stop. Think how rare that is in a film.Read the full review

Shanley turns out to have dismayingly few original cinematic notions to back up the basic did-he-or-didn't-he hook in his study of conviction and compassion.Read the full review

Shanley seems to have lost a certain amount of faith in what he'd written. As a director he's ended up pushing the drama harder than he needs to. He hasn't done anything fatal, but he has tampered with and hampered it.Read the full review

An intellectually and emotionally exhausting and engrossing experience. It is drama of the highest caliber.Read the full review

You may have doubts about which side to choose, but there's no doubt about this mind-bender. It'll pin you to your seat.Read the full review

There seems to be something about the story itself that's better suited to the stage than the screen.Read the full review

Cinematically, Doubt is something of a dud. But if it remains a play, it's an ingeniously structured one, with smart, thought-provoking words spoken by fabulous actors, and how often do most of us get to see one of those, whether in three dimensions or two?Read the full review

The film is nothing if not provocative.Read the full review