El Crimen del Padre Amaro

A feverish melodrama about an idealist who, in following his heart and his bishop's orders, leads himself into temptation and his parish into hypocrisy. Full Review

Respectably 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. Full Review

May be morally tangled, pessimistic, lurid and foreboding, but it's also humanistic. Full Review

Conveys the character of this tiny, insular community through richness of detail. Full Review

Not 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. Full Review