Conclave Review

Review of Conclave (2024) by screenqueeen: 👍 3.5/5

I'm someone who couldn't give two shits about how secretive the papacy is, or the machinations of religious politics. This does a great job of drawing you in for something unique and different, then slams everything into autopilot for something a lot more methodical and by the numbers, coasting on the actual interesting interrogations of how faith is literally governed until those threads die out like that guy in the beginning literally credited as "Dead Pope." Cool to see where it went but the writing forgot to fill in gaps of ideologies besides the reactionary politics on display (which are honestly a given when you cover Catholicism! you don't need to convince us The Cardinal Who Vapes is bad!). A lazy interrogation but contains enough raw ingredients to make the Academy likely hover their hand over the buzzer for best picture just because it includes what it does. Interesting but we can do better.

at least it wasn't a French guy.