Read Peter Travers's 12/11 Doubt review from Rolling Stone:
Go ahead, jump to conclusions. Force your prejudices on other people. Insist that Iraq is hiding weapons of mass destruction. Wait, wrong argument. Doubt, based on John Patrick Shanley's Pulitzer Prize-winning 2005 drama, is about a different kind of politics. Set in a Catholic school in the Bronx in 1964, Doubt deals with a nascent war between Sister Aloysius Beauvier (Meryl Streep), the principal, and Father Flynn (Philip Seymour Hoffman), the parish priest. Since Streep and Hoffman are two of the best actors on the planet, expect fireworks. Chatting with boys in the schoolyard, Father Flynn spies the nun watching him from above. "The dragon looks hungry today," he says with a grin that the good sister is determined to wipe off his face . . .
(Follow the following link for the rest of the review:)
http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/movie/18929641/review/24613127/doubt