"The healing process of purging the caldron of anger, grief and guilt out of a handful of small-town parishioners pans out with step-by-step lucidity and the ultimate embrace of forgiveness and agape is a hard-won reward but Komasa rarely overreaches himself into making a schmaltzy or homily fest out of it, the film's forte is in its clear-eyed, committed presentation of a none-too-credible story, and piling on the obvious and the understated (the tantalizing sexual consummation, a blackmailing juvie belong to the former and the solemn Last Rites, a tacit love interest the latter), CORPUS CHRISTI roundly puts Komasa's name on the map as a filmmaker very nearly edging his artistic maturity, not to mention it has obtained an Oscar nomination against fierce competition."
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read my full review on my blog: cinema omnivore, thanks