El Crimen del Padre Amaro
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- Synopsis
- A priest discovers the path of virtue can be steep, and temptation can demand a heavy price, in this controversial drama from Mexico. Father Amaro (Gael Garcia Bernal) is a young Catholic priest whose mentor, the Bishop (Ernesto Gomez Cruz), expects ......
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- Director(s)
- Carlos Carrera
- Distributor(s)
- Samuel Goldwyn
- MPAA Rating
- R
- Runtime
- 120 min.
Critic Reviews
Boston Globe | Wesley MorrisAdd Critic to Favorites
Bernal, with his sweet man-boy looks, makes Padre Amaro's portrait of corruption all the more flabbergasting in its irony.Read the full review
Washington Post | Desson ThomsonAdd Critic to Favorites
May be morally tangled, pessimistic, lurid and foreboding, but it's also humanistic.Read the full review
Chicago Sun-Times | Roger EbertAdd Critic to Favorites
It'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 review
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