| The Magdalene Sisters Review |
| by David N. Butterworth (Rating: 3/4) |
| "It is estimated that as many as 30,000 women were detained at Magdalene
asylums throughout Ireland" summarizes the epilogue of Peter Mullan's
harrowing
"The Magdalene Sisters." And if that statistic isn't startling enough,
consider
this addendum:...more |
| The Magdalene Sisters Review |
| by Shannon Patrick Sullivan (Rating: 3/4) |
| Directed by Peter Mullan, from his screenplay. Starring Geraldine McEwan,
Anne-Marie Duff, Nora-Jane Noone. Running time: 119 minutes. Rated AA for
controversial subject matter by the MFCB. Reviewed on November 19th, 2003. more |
| The Magdalene Sisters Review |
| by Steve Rhodes (Rating: 3/4) |
| THE MAGDALENE SISTERS, written and directed by Peter Mullan, is a harrowing and
mesmerizing story, which claims to be true, about the Magdalene Laundries in
Ireland. Over 30,000 girls have been imprisoned there by the Catholic Church
-- the last laundry...more |
| The Magdalene Sisters Review |
| by Robin Clifford (Rating: A-) |
| Until the last one was closed in 1996 the Magdalene Convents were
scattered throughout Catholic Ireland and their sole purpose was to
house the outcast girls of Papist society, committing them to a life of
grueling work, deprivation, humiliation and...more |
| The Magdalene Sisters Review |
| by Susan Granger (Rating: 9/10) |
| Susan Granger's review of "The Magdalene Sisters" (Miramax Films)
Why has Scottish writer/director/actor Peter Mullan's hard-hitting
depiction of brutality within Ireland's Catholic Magdalene convent schools has
drawn the ire of the Vatican?...more |
| The Magdalene Sisters Review |
| by Jon Popick (Rating: 9/10) |
| Imagine a society that sentences females, sans trial, to long yet undefined
incarcerations for their involvement in incredibly insignificant
infractions. Imagine that they're forced to perform hard labor in horrible
conditions for no wages and are...more |
| The Magdalene Sisters Review |
| by Laura Clifford (Rating: A-) |
| In the mid-nineteenth century, the Magdalene asylums were established as a
place where fallen women could go to literally wash away their sins laboring
unpaid in a laundry business that benefited the Catholic Church. In 1960s
Ireland, three young woman...more |
| The Magdalene Sisters Review |
| by Harvey S. Karten (Rating: B+) |
| Reviewed by: Harvey S. Karten
Grade: B+
Miramax Films
Directed by: Peter Mullan
Written by: Peter Mullan
Cast: Geraldine McEwan, Anne-Marie Duff, Nora-Jane Noone,
Dorothy Duffy, Eileen Walsh, Mary Murray, Britta Smith
Screened at: MGM, NYC, 5/28/03 more |
| The Magdalene Sisters Review |
| by Mark R. Leeper (Rating: 6/10) |
| CAPSULE: This may be an authentic expose of
conditions for penitents in convents, but really
comes off like a women's prison film. What makes
this film different from some is that it is no
fictional imagining though the frequency of...more |
