The Magdalene Sisters Critic Reviews
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Based upon 15 Critic Reviews- Highest Rated
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Blistering and brilliant work. Read the full review
A harrowing look at institutional cruelty, perpetrated by the Catholic Church in Ireland, and justified by a perverted hysteria about sex.Read the full review
The rare movie that turns cruelty into art.Read the full review
Graced with performers who bring a purity of emotion to their work, the film is always dramatically convincing. There is a fundamental air of truth about it, a sense that, horrific though things seem, this is how it must have been. Read the full review
A disturbing and compelling motion picture that depicts the forces that try to suppress the human spirit, and the strength of these girls in overcoming it.Read the full review
Mullan errs by making all the sisters dragon ladies. Still, the film gets to you; it's a powerhouse. Read the full review
A powerful document of cruelty and sadism. Read the full review
Both a masterpiece and a holy hell: Watching it, you feel you're being punished for a crime you didn't commit. Which puts you, come to think of it, in the same frame of mind as those poor Magdalene girls. Read the full review
The Magdalene Sisters would be too painful to watch if it didn't have a silver lining. Suffice it to say that it is possible to fly over this religious cuckoo's nest and remain free. All it takes is courage and the timely kindness of strangers.Read the full review
The film might have been more powerful, not to mention fair, if the nuns believed they were doing right; only on movie night, when McEwan sees herself in Ingrid Bergman in "The Bells Of St. Mary's," does Mullan grant her so much as the delusion of rectitude. Read the full review
