Sun 25 Feb 2007 Middletown (15)
ALLAN HUNTER
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Running time: 89 minutes
RELIGIOUS fundamentalism is a blight on the soul of humanity. The sense of oppression, bigotry and hatred unleashed by tribal loyalties should be the stuff of great cinema. Peter Mullan showed how it could be done in The Magdalene Sisters. His film vividly evoked how the icy grip of the church led extraordinary injustices to go unchallenged and ignored. Nobody wants to rock the boat when a whole society colludes in setting the moral agenda.