Margaret Betts‘ Novitiate (2017) movie trailer stars Margaret Qualley, Melissa Leo, Morgan Saylor, Dianna Agron, and Julianne Nicholson. Novitiate‘s plot synopsis: “Spanning over a decade from the ...

In the midst of a crowded awards season, there are inevitably worthy films that have been largely overlooked. That’s the case with “Novitiate,” a religious drama about a group of perspective nuns ...

NOVITIATE focuses on a young woman preparing to become a nun in the early 1960s, just as the Catholic church is poised on the brink of the sweeping changes of Vatican II. Maggie Betts wrote and ...

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Closing out October, Specialty titles are packing theaters for the coming weekend. Sony Pictures Classics is heading out with Maggie Betts’ Novitiate, a well-received Sundance title that later ...

Margaret Betts' narrative feature debut premiered in Sundance's U.S. Dramatic Competition section on Friday. Sony Pictures Classics is finalizing a deal to acquire the worldwide rights to the drama ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Two and one-half stars. Rated R. 123 minutes. Set against a backdrop of the Second Vatican Council — the early-1960s reassessment of Catholic doctrine and ...

Perhaps the quietest movie of the year, Maggie Betts’ “Novitiate” mostly takes place in the still, echoing hallways and rooms of a 1964 convent; its noise comes from its characters’ querying souls.

Questions of faith and devotion are explored with sensitivity and grace in “Novitiate,” a quietly moving drama about nuns on the cusp of great change. It’s 1964, just as Pope John XXIII is ...

They’re not made very often, and audiences don’t always applaud (Audrey Hepburn in “The Nun’s Story” is the notable exception), but films dealing with what goes on behind convent or monastery walls ...