The ‘Conclave’ Score Relied on an ‘Otherworldly’ Instrument That Must Be Played with Wet Hands
Composer Volker Bertelmann tells IndieWire about creating paranoia, danger, and good Catholic guilt in collaboration with ...
Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Conclave’ on Peacock, an Ungodly Entertaining Pope-Election Drama Led by Ralph Fiennes
Conclave ( now streaming on Peacock, in addition to VOD services like Amazon Prime Video) dishes up the hot pope-election ...
The Deeper Meaning Behind Conclave’s Surprise Ending, Explained
The conclusion of this gossipy Vatican drama makes one distinct change from the book it’s based on, in service of a message ...
'Conclave' review: Vatican-set thriller is divinely fun
The psychological thriller from All Quiet on the Western Front helmer Edward Berger stars Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci, John ...
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‘Conclave’: 6 Ways Edward Berger Turned Pope Drama Into a Paranoid ‘70s Thriller
Until a new pope is selected, the pressures of administering the conclave’s proceedings fall on one man, Cardinal Lawrence (Ralph Fiennes), who has been experiencing religous doubt — we learn ...
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New Movies on Streaming: ‘Conclave,’ ‘Here’ + More
This week’s new movies on demand are an assortment of weird and wonderful titles, including the papal thriller Conclave, the Florence Pugh-Andrew Garfield romance We Live in Time, the animated ...
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Conclave: Ralph Fiennes lends cardinal virtues to a brisk papal thriller
Pick a pope? Tread carefully. Robert Harris’s 2016 thriller Conclave whisked us inside the Sistine Chapel to eavesdrop on the hushed, cloistered, and backstabbing process of casting ballots for ...
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Conclave director on how film’s twist ending puts "little crack" in Vatican patriarchy
New papal thriller Conclave is packed with many twists and turns, but perhaps the biggest of all is left for the very end of the film. After an assortment of scandalous revelations are made about ...
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How accurate is Conclave and why is it controversial?
Ralph Fiennes' new drama Conclave heightens the drama around its titular meeting, the voting process that takes place to elect new pope. The film, which is based on Robert Harris' novel of the ...
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The twisty, Oscar-tipped Conclave needed more than shock and awe
When we first meet Cardinal Lawrence (Ralph Fiennes), chosen to oversee the papal conclave to elect a successor to the (very) recently deceased Pope, he puts his red skullcap on as if he were ...
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Conclave: Ralph Fiennes is flawless in Robert Harris’s preposterously gripping drama of papal electioneering
drama of papal electioneering finds itself competing for multiple first-division Academy Awards. There are analogies here with national elections, but what goes on in the conclave, with its tidier ...
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Conclave film review — Ralph Fiennes shines in juicy papal succession drama
Put the two together and you get Conclave, an expertly juicy drama of ... The setting is the Vatican, the scene the death of a fictional pope, and even with the body still in situ, minds turn ...