Novitiate
First screened in November 2017
Director: Maggie Betts. Cast: Margaret Qualley, Melissa Leo, Julianne Nicholson, Rebecca Dayan, Dianna Agron, Morgan Saylor, Liana Liberato, Maddie Hasson, Chelsea Lopez, Eline Powell, Ashley Bell, Denis O'Hare, Marco St. John, Chris Zylka. Screenplay: Maggie Betts. Twitter Capsule:
Potent and sobering through many passages, but capable of becoming shaky or tacky at a moment's notice. Nice photography.
VOR:③
Not every movie devotes itself to portraying all-female community or studies of faith, much less both. That said, some of these tropes are stale.
