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The Crucible
A Salem resident attempts to frame her ex-lover's wife for being a witch in the middle of the 1692 witchcraft trials.
6 September 1922, Huntington, West Virginia, USA
8 January 1939, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
30 June 1928
12 August 1975, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
23 November 1944, Chicago, Illinois, USA
5 November 1962, California, USA
27 January 1948, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
20 July 1912, McHenry, Illinois, USA
May 17, 2013
The physical production of the film is so authentic and compelling, you can't get beyond it, not for a second.
May 17, 2013
Arthur Miller's screenplay keeps everything nice and faithful to the period, and the actors have the dirt on their hands to prove it. The movie lacks polish as well, and that's to everyone's benefit.
May 17, 2013
Then there's always Mr. Scofield, bringing an almost unbearable, yet entirely believable, lightness of spirit to his loathsome character. It's a bold stroke by a great actor, making zealotry and evil seem positively beneficent.
May 17, 2013
A McCarthy-era retelling of the Salem witch trials, Arthur Miller's 1953 play is a literary classic, but this adap falls short.
May 17, 2013
Her cheeks flush, her winsome beauty seared with erotic rage, Ryder exposes the real roots of the piece. Forget McCarthyism; The Crucible is a colonial Fatal Attraction.
May 17, 2013
The story's sickening spiral into madness is preserved.
May 17, 2013
I very much admire how Hytner... keeps the pace swift and doesn't fetishize the 17th-century decors and clothes. But I can't help feeling that in more ways than one, The Crucible is a period piece.
May 17, 2013
An intelligent and gripping epic.
May 17, 2013
Too bad, though, that The Crucible fails to probe deeper into the sexual, religious, and political conditions that can give false accusations so much power -- even today.
May 17, 2013
The story is unchanged, but its theme relates surprisingly well to today's versions of the bias and scapegoating that Miller rightly deplores.
January 26, 2016
Plodding film based on play has mature themes, sex, violence
May 17, 2013
I recommend Hytner's movie highly, but a part of me resists a work that makes the audience feel as noble in our moral certainty as the characters it invites us to deplore. Some part of its power seems borrowed from the thing it hates.
