The Monastery: Mr. Vig and the Nun Review

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  4.0

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• 50

  out of 100

  The New York Times Stephen Holden

  Despite some pretty seasonal photography and evocative scenes of the nuns' rigorous daily rituals, which involve many hours of prayer, The Monastery is a flighty, disorganized film with a blurry timeline and a wandering attention span.

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• 70

  out of 100

  Village Voice

  Unlike far too many human-interest docs today, director Pernille Rose Grnkjr's fantastic little character portrait doesn't rest on the strength of its personality, with prudent attention paid to aesthetic nuances and the growing quasi-love that the titular bickerers have for one another.

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