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36 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliAn intellectually and emotionally exhausting and engrossing experience. It is drama of the highest caliber.
- 100Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertDoubt has exact and merciless writing, powerful performances and timeless relevance. It causes us to start thinking with the first shot, and we never stop. Think how rare that is in a film.
- 88Rolling StonePeter TraversRolling StonePeter TraversYou may have doubts about which side to choose, but there's no doubt about this mind-bender. It'll pin you to your seat.
- 88Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsChicago TribuneMichael PhillipsWhile Streep has a tiny bit too much fun with some of her character's excesses, she's awfully good. So is Hoffman, who walks a fine line between obvious guilt and possible innocence.
- 83The A.V. ClubScott TobiasThe A.V. ClubScott TobiasDoubt is a complex, thematically loaded piece of work, and though it isn't enhanced on film, it deserves the wider exposure.
- 70The Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttThe Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttThe film is nothing if not provocative.
- 58Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumEntertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumShanley turns out to have dismayingly few original cinematic notions to back up the basic did-he-or-didn't-he hook in his study of conviction and compassion.
- 50NewsweekDavid AnsenNewsweekDavid AnsenDoubt stirs up a lot of stormy theatrical weather, but the stolid transfer from stage to screen does Shanley's play no favors.
- 50Village VoiceVillage VoiceDoubt is only marginally, and tendentiously, about moral uncertainty--it's more about the sins of a nosy old biddy who pulls out all the stops when going through the official channels of a male-dominated Catholic Church would get her nowhere.
- 30The New YorkerAnthony LaneThe New YorkerAnthony LaneStreep can do anything. She is, of course, wasted on this elephantine fable; if only Doubt had been made in 1964, shot by Roger Corman over a long weekend, and retitled "Spawn of the Devil Witch" or "Blood Wimple," all would have been forgiven