Gave them a second chance and they improved.

Great review, wmcclain. I like this film very much although, as a committed atheist with a particular contempt for Roman Catholicism, I may have a different slant on it. But I could believe in all the characters' motivations.

I normally have an aversion to Julianne Moore. I do not know why. She is an excellent actress who normally chooses her roles carefully, a humane and intelligent person off-screen, and earns bonus points as a Yank for being a passionate Anglophile, so it is churlish of me. But she is one actress I would not want to meet in a dark alley.

She is the last actress I would choose to portray gullible superstition, but that did not bother me at all here. I found the "resurrection" scene extremely moving.

I found Jordan's remark about Dmitryk's earlier version (1955) disingenuous. I cannot believe a film buff like Jordan would have been unaware of its existence. It is quite good, although the 1999 version is better.