Loved the overt psychopathy of the Manhattan elite on display, hated the earnest embrace of World's Most Toxic Man Fixed By Pure-of-Heart Virgin.

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Really nice cinematography and costumes. Good if slightly self-aware sound design. Dialogue too airport-novel-pulp-fiction. The film is compelling in its earnest embrace of Catholic mysticism, eschewing deeper cynicism about the church as mere facade in service of human power. The scene where the bomb goes off happens right as Lawrence is voting for himself, with the implicit subtext that he would have won that vote. So the explosion is literally god’s will be done, the divine hand guiding the papal…