While the liberal elite praises Miramax’s new agitprop film “The Magdalene Sisters,” you may want to balance it with a strong dose of counter-point from the critics at the Catholic News Service:

The nuns, presented as consistently evil, money-grubbing, merciless hags, have no emotional depth. They are as exaggerated in their sadism as Ingrid Bergman is in celestial benevolence in “The Bells of St. Mary’s” — the film Sister Bridget sheds a crocodile tear over at a Christmas screening. Not one ounce of human kindness — not to mention Christian compassion — can be found under any wimple or collar.
This painting with broad brush strokes is better suited for the propagandist than the dramatist. Regrettably, drama is jettisoned along with objectivity since this kind of stacking the deck drains the narrative of any inner tension. The result is a cavalcade of cartoonish vignettes which present to viewers about as nuanced a picture of Irish nuns as 1915’s “The Birth of a Nation” did of African-Americans.