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Doubt is our #1 movie to see this holiday season.  Starring Meryl Streep and Phillip Seymour Hoffman, this film looks interesting, complex and chilling.  It sounds to us like an interesting story about moral conviction v. physical proof and the ways selfishness can cloud (or not cloud) these intuitons. 

Synopsis from Rotten Tomatoes:  

“A vibrant, charismatic priest, Father Flynn (Hoffman), is trying to upend the schools’ strict customs, which have long been fiercely guarded by Sister Aloysius Beauvier (Streep). The school has just accepted its first black student, Donald Miller. But when Sister James (Amy Adams), a hopeful innocent, shares with Sister Aloysius her guilt-inducing suspicion that Father Flynn is paying too much personal attention to Donald, Sister Aloysius sets off on a personal crusade to unearth the truth and to expunge Flynn from the school. Now, without a shard of proof besides her moral certainty, Sister Aloysius locks into a battle of wills with Father Flynn which threatens to tear apart the community with irrevocable consequence.”

Savages, starring Laura Linney and Phillip Seymour Hoffman, is a film about two siblings taking care of their ailing father.  Rotten Tomatoes calls this film a “beautifully three-dimensional look at the struggles and comforts of familial bonds,” and it is absolutely that.  Both siblings struggle a bit with their relationship with their father, but the relationship between Wendy and John (Linney and Hoffman) is subtely poignant – in the way a brother-sister relationship should be.  Great film.