The Apostle

If you want to sample the sheer bouquet of great acting, you could get drunk on this movie.Read Full Review »

Duvall's screenplay does what great screenwriting is supposed to do, and surprises us with additional observations and revelations in every scene.Read Full Review »

Duvall is a blazing wonder in a film that ranks with the year's best.Read Full Review »

Unusual, unhurried tour de force--a seamless match of strong artistic vision and physical performance. [19 Dec 1997, p. 52]Read Full Review »

The fact that Duvall gives such a glorious performance in The Apostle is likely to distract people from the fact that he has also written and directed a glorious movie--the most vivid and radiantly made of 1997.Read Full Review »

The masterful Duvall skillfully illuminates the paradoxes of a very complex man; he also elicits honest performances from his cast. The zealous churchgoers seem more like real people than actors.Read Full Review »

Duvall's unobtrusive direction moves the film at a leisurely pace that lets many scenes build the gentle, pleasing rhythms of small-town Southern life. A rare display of spiritual light on screen.Read Full Review »

This little knockout of a movie, written and directed by Robert Duvall -- who also plays the title character, a roving Texas evangelist -- can strike you in the same way that Bible stories did when you first encountered them as a child.Read Full Review »

In his long and distinguished career, only his Oscar-winning performance in 1983's “Tender Mercies” was this raw. Duvall becomes Sonny. The energy and passion of a preacher are all present.Read Full Review »

A good little movie dominated by a great central performance that's likely to endure. [30 Jan 1998, p.D2]Read Full Review »