Robert Duvall has chosen parts in interesting,
meandering movies so often that it's no surprise he's finally
made one himself. The Apostle deals in the fuzziness of
morality, the difficulty of self-knowledge, and the uses and misuses
of religion so gracefully that you may not notice anything is
being questioned, at first. Duvall, with gleeful unselfconsciousness,
plays Sonny, a preacher who can't tell when he's being generous
and when he's being self-serving. His devotion to a life of God
looks an awful lot like a devotion to himself--he commits some
of the really bad sins, but he's prone to kindness as well.
The sheer ambiguity of this story is staggering, given the state
of American movies these days. How often can two people see a
film and come away with completely different ideas about its meaning?
With The Apostle Duvall, who has already proven himself
to be a spellbinding actor, has shown himself to be an intelligent
writer and director as well.
--Richter
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