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NUMBERS
Box Office: $5,433,078
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CONSENSUS
Though melodramatic, El Crimen del Padre Amaro's critique of the Catholic church is a timely one.
CAST & CREW
Gael Garcia Bernal, Ana Claudia Talancon, Sancho Gracia
Directed by Carlos Carrera
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SYNOPSIS
Gael Garcia Bernal (Y TU MAMA TAMBIEN, AMORES PERROS) stars in EL CRIMEN DEL PADRE AMARO, a controversial drama that was a box office smash in its native Mexico. more...
MPAA RATING
R, sexuality, language, and some disturbing images
RUNTIME
1 hour, 59 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Nov 15, 2002
Video: Apr 22, 2003
RELEASE COMPANY
Samuel Goldwyn Films
GENRE
Dramas, Foreign Films, Romance, Corruption, Love Affairs, Mexico, Drug Dealers, Sex, Mexican, Teenage Girls
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official The Crime of Padre Amaro Site
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 "The film may appear naked in its narrative form... but it goes deeper than that, to fundamental choices that include the complexity of the Catholic doctrine"
-- The Wolf, IOFILM.CO.UK
 "This rather unfocused, all-over-the-map movie would be a lot better if it pared down its plots and characters to a few rather than dozens... or if it were subtler... or if it had a sense of humor."
-- Jeff Vice, DESERET NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY
"Bernal ... gives an ambiguous performance; he's a lightweight actor, but that's a positive quality when portraying a man on whom nothing leaves a permanent mark."
-- Lawrence Toppman, CHARLOTTE OBSERVER
"Exhibits the shallow sensationalism characteristic of soap opera...more salacious telenovela than serious drama."
-- Frank Swietek, ONE GUY'S OPINION
"A somewhat soapish but nonetheless beautifully acted excoriation of religious piousness and blind allegiance to faith as a socially constructed institution."
-- Brent Simon, ENTERTAINMENT TODAY
"Drama of temptation, salvation and good intentions is a thoughtful examination of faith, love and power."
-- James Rocchi, NETFLIX
"Like a south-of-the-border Melrose Place."
-- Jon Popick, PLANET SICK-BOY
"I admired it, particularly that unexpected downer of an ending."
-- Eugene Novikov, FILM BLATHER
"Take away the controversy, and it's not much more watchable than a Mexican soap opera."
-- Roger Moore, ORLANDO SENTINEL
"Melodrama with a message."
-- Maitland McDonagh, TV GUIDE'S MOVIE GUIDE
"...it’s junk, but it’s tasty junk — you’re fooling yourself if you think its politics run any deeper than the true yet obvious observation that power corrupts some people."
-- Philip Martin, ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE
"Without ever becoming didactic, director Carlos Carrera expertly weaves this novelistic story of entangled interrelationships and complex morality."
-- Arthur Lazere, CULTUREVULTURE.NET
"Nothing more than a mediocre trifle."
-- Bruce Kirkland, JAM! MOVIES
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"Compulsively watchable, no matter how degraded things get."
-- Bob Strauss, LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS
"The drama was so uninspiring that even a story immersed in love, lust, and sin couldn't keep my attention."
-- Dennis Schwartz, OZUS' WORLD MOVIE REVIEWS
"Watching it is rather like viewing a long soap opera in which only the first episode was any good."
-- Steve Rhodes, STEVE RHODES' INTERNET REVIEWS
"El Crimen Del Padre Amaro would likely be most effective if used as a tool to rally anti-Catholic protestors."
-- David Nusair, EXCLAIM!
"ordinary melodrama that is heavy on religious symbols but wafer-thin on dramatic substance"
-- John A. Nesbit, CULTUREDOSE.NET
"Cut through the layers of soap-opera emotion and you find a scathing portrayal of a powerful entity strangling the life out of the people who want to believe in it the most."
-- Sean Means, SALT LAKE TRIBUNE
"Para analizar esta película, es preciso separar dos criterios, el religioso y el cinematográfico"
-- Luis Martinez, CINENGANOS
"García Bernal and Talancón are an immensely appealing couple, and even though their story is predictable, you'll want things to work out."
-- Jean Lowerison, SAN DIEGO METROPOLITAN
"A slick, engrossing melodrama."
-- Jim Lane, SACRAMENTO NEWS & REVIEW
"An anticlerical indictment that one-ups Moliere's 'Tartuffe.'"
-- Harvey S. Karten, COMPUSERVE
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FRESH 68%
Avg. Rating: 6.3/10 |
"Nothing more than a stifling morality tale dressed up in peekaboo clothing."
-- Stephanie Zacharek, SALON.COM
"Eventually moves and stirs you, even if it often resembles those steamy Mexican TV dramas/soap operas called telenovelas."
-- Michael Wilmington, CHICAGO TRIBUNE
"Feels shrill, simple and soapy."
-- Chris Vognar, DALLAS MORNING NEWS
"Bernal's transformation from naive priest to tortured adulterer to hard-nosed careerist is riveting."
-- Megan Turner, NEW YORK POST
"The film is ... determined to treat its characters, weak and strong, as fallible human beings, not caricatures, and to carefully delineate the cost of the inevitable conflicts between human urges and an institution concerned with self-preservation."
-- Kenneth Turan, LOS ANGELES TIMES
"Predictably melodramatic."
-- Jan Stuart, NEWSDAY
"Overall, this is a juicy movie but certainly not a trashy one."
-- Steven Rosen, DENVER POST
"You can see the would-be surprises coming a mile away, and the execution of these twists is delivered with a hammer. Thumbs down."
-- Richard Roeper, EBERT & ROEPER
"The story is timeless, but when adapted to the modern age, it makes for a wrenching film -- never preachy or sentimental, and refreshingly non-judgmental about the fundamental and contradictory issues it raises."
-- Rex Reed, NEW YORK OBSERVER
"Lavishly, exhilaratingly tasteless."
-- Wesley Morris, BOSTON GLOBE
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"Don't hate El Crimen del Padre Amaro because it's anti-Catholic. Hate it because it's lousy."
-- Chris Hewitt, ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS
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