Could it be that the Vatican’s late-summer foray into film criticism was not 100 percent objective? It could indeed. “The Magdalene Sisters” is an emotionally pungent, sociologically scathing look at ...

GREENBELT Cinema has been showing Director Peter Mullan’s riveting Oscar-worthy film The Magdalene Sisters. In a country recently made aware of “clerical pedophilia” by Catholic priests, such sexual ...

The Scottish actor and director Peter Mullan delivers a scathing reproach to the Catholic Church in "The Magdalene Sisters," a devastating portrait of a particularly painful chapter in that ...

MISERY IS the prevailing tone in "The Magdalene Sisters," Peter Mullan's bracing yet moving drama about Irish girls who are condemned to languish away in the Magdalene asylums -- essentially laundry ...

IFC Films continued to perch atop the iW: BOT with its release of “Camp,” maintaining the same three screens in New York and Los Angeles. Miramax, meanwhile, graced five screens for its bow of “The ...

Peter Mullan's The Magdalene Sisters is essentially a prison movie, only the inmates are all innocent and their oppressors are a bunch of misguided Catholic nuns. That it's a true story makes all the ...

The history of the Catholic church in the last century is one of both triumph and failure. Its triumphs include Vatican II’s modernization of the church, its role in resisting communism and its deep ...

The girls are in Irish-Catholic prison for varying offenses: Margaret (Anne-Marie Duff) was raped by her cousin; Rose (Dorothy Duffy) had a baby out of wedlock; and Bernadette (Nora-Jane Noone) was ...

LUCKY SEVERSON, guest anchor: It may be hard to believe that, in the latter half of the twentieth century, institutions run by Roman Catholic nuns could amount to virtual prisons — for young women who ...