Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The film, set in the early 1960s, tells the story of a young woman, Sister Cathleen (Qualley), who starts to question her Catholic ...

The Oscar winner gets characteristically candid about playing a role she'd long hoped to land, and the challenges of being a strong woman at any age. But the Reverend Mother’s ability to wield ...

At the tail end of the 1960s, in the wake of the Catholic Church’s Vatican II reforms to transform the church into a more progressive global entity, thousands of nuns left behind their habits and ...

Her film may have far too many weighty matters on its mind to leave much room for petty resentments, but one wonders if writer-director Maggie Betts isn’t the teeniest bit annoyed that a certain other ...

They’re not made very often, and audiences don’t always applaud (Audrey Hepburn in “The Nun’s Story” is the notable exception) but films dealing with what goes on behind convent or monastery walls ...

Don’t mess with Melissa Leo. As Novitiate‘s Reverend Mother Marie St. Claire, the boss lady who calls the shots at the fictional Tennessee convent where this religious drama is based, the actress ...

Alissa Wilkinson covered film and culture for Vox. Alissa is a member of the New York Film Critics Circle and the National Society of Film Critics. Stories about nuns living in convents often make for ...

The narrative centers on Cathleen (Margaret Qualley), a young woman from a fractured family—a non-Catholic family, like that of the filmmaker—who comes to the convent, and her calling, by way of the ...

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“Novitiate” is a love story about a girl in a relationship with a guy who just doesn’t seem to be paying much attention to her. It’s a fairly typical tale, except the girl is a 17-year-old nun in ...