Hoffman keeps this banal, stagy movie together in another supremely layered performance. Streep, however, is rubbish, and this can be added to the voluminous inventory of rubbish that is her CV. She’s not as bad here, though, as she was as Lady Thatcher in The Iron Lady (2011), which is a grating, painful experience to watch.
Casting blunders aside, I would summarise Doubt (2008) as a dull portrait of a repressive, gleefully authoritarian institution that everyone is aware of, inhabited by elders who operate as pedantic snores with no hinterland. It gets better after the dire exposition but barely.
A waste of time.
Bye for now.
Wanderings and ... wonderings. 