
The New Yorker
Neither a parable nor an allegory, yet image after image seems charged with intent, from the opening shot... to the climax, an apocalyptic welter of fire and blood.
Full reviewA young offender, spiritually reborn, masquerades as a village priest in order to achieve his God-given dream in this Oscar-nominated Polish drama.
During his time in a Youth Detention Center, a 20-year-old becomes spiritually reborn. However, since his crime prevents him from applying to the seminary, he instead poses as a minister of a small-town parish.
Neither a parable nor an allegory, yet image after image seems charged with intent, from the opening shot... to the climax, an apocalyptic welter of fire and blood.
Full reviewIt's within the murky realm of self-doubt and spiritual anxiety that it's at its most audacious and compelling.
Full reviewShot in a grim, desaturated palette, this Polish film, directed by Jan Komasa, addresses big issues of conscience and morality.
Full reviewIt deviates enough from formula-especially in its arresting ending, which takes full advantage of Bielenia's haunted visage-to be worth seeing.
Full reviewThis is a movie that wants you to think about what redemption really means. And it has a lead... [that's] your new Hot Priest, Eastern European Division.
Full reviewDirected by Jan Komasa in only his third feature and starring a complexly compelling Bartosz Bielenia, this is a blistering drama, intense, disturbing and inescapably thought-provoking, a film that gets its power from a merging of potent opposites.
Full reviewA quite interesting and irresistible movie, a sort of cross between Paul Schrader's recent film of spiritual crisis, "First Reformed," and Spielberg's "Catch Me If You Can."
Full reviewIt's Shane, with more vodka and fewer horses. It's as Polish as a cabbage roll, yet startlingly universal.
Full reviewThere's visual command and a compelling intimacy to the storytelling, plus intellectual engagement in the reflection on who gets to claim nearness to God.
Full reviewOften moving but also disquieting and even intermittently funny, this drama unfurls a spiritual parable that is uniquely Polish but accessible to all.
Full reviewThe film is an important one, but above all, it is an exceptionally pleasing and easy one to watch despite its density.
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