Brent_Marchant
Its more than a little frustrating when a film seemingly has all of the elements needed to make it work except the one thats most crucial, the one that enables a production to brilliantly succeed or doom it to failure the story. Such is the case with director Edward Bergers latest, the much-anticipated, much-celebrated drama about the convening of a papal conclave to select a new pope. From a technical standpoint, the filmmaker has pulled together everything that should make this an epic picture a gorgeous production design, stunning and inventive cinematography, and a stellar cast featuring superb performances by the likes of Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci, John Lithgow and Isabella Rossellini, as well as fine turns by such lesser-known pe...