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Metascore®68 out of 100 | Generally favorable reviews

Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 100
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    Doubt 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. Read full review

  • 100
    ReelViews | James Berardinelli

    An intellectually and emotionally exhausting and engrossing experience. It is drama of the highest caliber. Read full review

  • 88
    Chicago Tribune | Michael Phillips

    While 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. Read full review

  • 88
    USA Today | Claudia Puig

    By eloquently probing the state of uncertainty and its accompanying discomfort and confusion, Doubt compels viewers to examine their own assumptions as they become caught up in this fascinating tale. Read full review

  • 83
    The Onion (A.V. Club) | Scott Tobias

    Doubt is a complex, thematically loaded piece of work, and though it isn't enhanced on film, it deserves the wider exposure. Read full review

  • 80
    Wall Street Journal | Joe Morgenstern

    Doubt leaves none in one respect: John Patrick Shanley was the right person to direct this fascinating screen version of his celebrated play. Read full review

  • 70
    Los Angeles Times | Kenneth Turan

    Shanley seems to have lost a certain amount of faith in what he'd written. As a director he's ended up pushing the drama harder than he needs to. He hasn't done anything fatal, but he has tampered with and hampered it. Read full review

  • 58
    Entertainment Weekly | Lisa Schwarzbaum

    Shanley 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. Read full review

  • 50
    Village Voice | Ella Taylor

    Doubt 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. Read full review

  • 50
    The New York Times | Manohla Dargis

    Mainstream moviemaking, with its commercial directives and slavish attachment to narrative codes isn't particularly hospitable to ambiguity...which may help explain why Mr. Shanley's film feels caught between two mediums and why Ms. Streep appears to be in a Gothic horror thriller while everyone else looks and sounds closer to life or at least dramatic realism. Read full review

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