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The Magdalene Sisters
Directed by
Peter Mullan
R
2002
1h 59m
Drama
,
History
7.7
91%
89%
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Three young Irish women struggle to maintain their spirits while they endure dehumanizing abuse as inmates of a Magdalene Sisters Asylum.
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Cast of The Magdalene Sisters
Anne-Marie Duff
Margaret
Nora-Jane Noone
Bernadette
Dorothy Duffy
Rose
Geraldine McEwan
Sister Bridget
Eileen Walsh
Crispina
Mary Murray
Una
Eamonn Owens
Eamonn
Britta Smith
Katy
Peter Mullan
Mr O'Connor
Eithne McGuinness
Sister Clementine
Frances Healy
Sister Jude
Phyllis MacMahon
Sister Augusta
Chris Patrick-Simpson
Brendan
Daniel Costello
Father Fitzroy
Rebecca Walsh
Josephine
Sean Colgan
Seamus
Stephen McCole
Young Man in Car
The Magdalene Sisters Ratings & Reviews
Orlando Sentinel
Jay Boyar
The Magdalene Sisters has the force of an alarm being sounded.
Detroit News
Tom Long
It is a strong, affecting movie about man's ability to twist holiness into horror.
Detroit Free Press
Terry Lawson
A story like this one could easily succumb to outraged melodrama, but not only does Mullan keep the drama human-sized, he even leavens it with the humor that one can easily believe had to be summoned to endure such misguided and malicious treatment.
Denver Post
Lisa Kennedy
Full of forceful, aching performances.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Jeff Strickler
Although it's heavy-handed in its emotional button-pushing, The Magdalene Sisters still manages to produce all the reactions the filmmakers want: repulsion, indignation, anger and outrage.
Arizona Republic
Kathy Cano-Murillo
Will make you furious and dejected, but in the end it offers an optimistic if unsettling twist.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Eleanor Ringel Cater
Definitely one-sided, but still very powerful.
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
The cast is uniformly fine, particularly smiley-eyed Geraldine McEwan as the avaricious Sister Bridget, and the filmmaking haunting.
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
A grim and unmistakable masterpiece of bleak, black sorrow.
Decent Films
Steven D. Greydanus
Whatever value the film might have had as an exposé of social sin is undermined by its prejudicial stereotyping of every single nun and priest. Instead of a morally serious film about a corrupt institution it becomes mere agitprop.
MovieFreak.com
Sara Michelle Fetters
There's been no sex, no unwanted children, just the allure of the possibility of carnal actions and for that she's been sent to work her life away in an inhuman institution.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
A film of haunting eloquence and justifiable fury.
Variety
David Rooney
This drama about a shocking reality from recent history balances a light touch with searing intensity and a sense of moral outrage.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Grimly believable.
The New Republic
Stanley Kauffmann
Why was this film made after the homes had already been abolished? One reason, hardly trifling, is that it was made excellently. Thematically, however, it stings.
Observer
Andrew Sarris
Mr. Mullan's fictional treatment of this subject in The Magdalene Sisters has much to commend.
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Watching the film, you can feel years of real pain. It feels more like gothic documentary than darkly limned fancy.
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
A stirring, emotionally galvanizing film, not only due to its shattering subject matter but thanks to Mullan's spot-on eye for casting and fluid, uncoercive style.
The New Yorker
Anthony Lane
You come away from the movie not just convinced but cowed.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
Blistering and brilliant work of true-life moral agitprop.
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