It’s as if we were being administered a series of rude slaps.

Priest shouldn't be missed -- much of it is strong and moving. My reservation is not that it bites off more than it can chew (these days, big teeth are welcome) but that there's something mechanical about its mastication.

The unexamined assumptions in the Priest screenplay are shallow and exploitative.

…Jimmy McGovern and Antonia Bird's Priest is a striking and powerful story about faith, religion and child abuse…well acted, thought-provoking and provocative…