Lest anyone think Paul Verhoeven’s latest shocker was intended to be a serious look at sexuality in religious service, the promotional poster for the film plastered around the Cannes Film Festival — ...

Some see the whole world in a grain of sand; Paul Verhoeven, with typical abundance, expands that old dictum, swapping a measly pebble for a whole damn convent. And so it is with his long-awaited ...

Paul Verhoeven, director of Robocop, Showgirls, Starship Troopers, etc. has always been a horny little altar boy at heart and never has that been more clear than in his new film, Benedetta, a tale of ...

The flesh is weak but the third act is even weaker in Paul Verhoeven's transgressive but frustratingly self-conflicted period piece. You probably won’t be shocked to hear that Paul Verhoeven’s erotic ...

“Benedetta” is something else, a “nunsploitation” picture filled with sex, violence and the plague that takes down the Catholic Church, seemingly, within the structure of a serious period piece. It ...

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If the movie gods were to choose any filmmaker alive to adapt Judith C. Brown’s 1986 book Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy, Paul Verhoeven probably would have eagerly ...

Benedetta was reviewed out of the New York Film Festival, where it made its North American premiere. It will debut in theaters on Dec. 3. As a child, young Benedetta has a unique relationship to the ...

Inspired by true events and set in the 17th century, Belgian actress Virginie Efira portrays the title character, a nun named Benedetta Carlini. Elena Plonka plays her as a young girl who is sold to a ...

At the ripe age of 83, Dutch boundary pusher Paul Verhoeven is still pushing boundaries, even if at this point they're only of good taste. The "RoboCop" and "Starship Troopers" filmmaker's first film ...

This review of “Benedetta” first published on July 9, following its screening at Cannes 2021. Some see the whole world in a grain of sand; Paul Verhoeven, with typical abundance, expands that old ...

Director Paul Verhoeven’s lesbian nun drama pushes the envelope on sexuality, but proves fairly conventional in most other respects. Let’s begin with the wooden statue of the Virgin Mary that is young ...