Tockinit not horrible nor great

Console best movie i've ever seen.

Sharkflei Your blood may run cold, but you now find yourself pinioned to the story.

Jemima It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

Sto'bought This is a companion piece to the film The Magdalene Sisters, but is more brutal, and also more beautiful. Not for the squeamish, this work of art is a fantastic example of why we have film as an art form and as a way to bring light to social injustices. There are countless holy people--true saints--who have found Jesus through various Christian constructs such as Roman Catholicism, Greek Orthodoxy, and a wide variety of Protestant versions. However, for the most part those involved in maintaining the structures themselves are not Christlike at all, but demonic. Jesus promises that if anyone hurts one of his little ones, it is better that a millstone is tied around his neck and that he is then thrown into the sea. Maybe it's just me, but I never want to be on the other end of that warning. It's really too bad that there are those who do find themselves there, hiding their evil behind self-righteousness.

Marusi This movie is really the BEST movie i have ever seen, the actors are great and it has showed us what was going whit does little boys. It is terrible what have they done do them. Children should have great memories on their childhood, but to does children will have an traumatic marks. The boys who landed there, had - we could say - bad luck. The priests were mean pigs, they were using the boys for their nasty needs .. The meanest one was John.. Huh i want to punch him in his ugly face, like he did that to Liam. Well, it is sad that something like that was happening. We can be lucky that we live in this time. GREAT MOVIE, director! :)

angelic_babe4u_15 What a well made film! It's so sad about Mercer being killed and I could of beaten that man! he was PURE EVIL! All the actors were really good and I heard it was some of those boys first time at acting but they all looked professional! Especially they boy that played Liam mercer. I cried at some parts because of how touching it was! My favourite part was when they boys were taken out by the nice teacher on chirstmas eve, it was good for them, a nice treat and really sweet, but then came Christmas day and those poor two boys! but the ending was well done! very good! very very good! Just there isn't a perfect word to sum this marvoulous movie up! Marks out of 10, definitely a 10!

Roger An Irishman who fought in the Spanish Civil War is engaged as the only lay teacher in a reform school run by oppressive, predatory Catholic priests. In this brutal environment, the teacher kindles the intellectual enthusiasm of his initially illiterate students by introducing them to poetry. His resistance to the reformatory's regime sparks a harsher crackdown in response. The plot earns no awards for creativity or subtlety but then, we learn in the end that this is based on a true story. Although the characters can seem one-dimensional, I found the acting riveting and the story well-paced; hardly a dull moment. On a side note, I can't remember another recent film without female characters (although one appears in flashbacks).