Huievest Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

Gutsycurene Fanciful, disturbing, and wildly original, it announces the arrival of a fresh, bold voice in American cinema.

KnotStronger This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

Edwin The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

Hank Yank This one of the best series I have ever seen.It's a pure search into finding God. Showing people as they are; sinners, driven by power, driven by fear, driven by egocentric motives. It drives away from the thought that god wants us to be good girls and good boys. What's the essence of finding god? What does god really wants from us?Are we able to say what we really think is true in our heart and takes the consequences and accept the fear that might accompany it?That's the story of this young pope, honestly trying to find and speaking out his ideas of a true relationship with god. Throwing away all clichés of what a god loving person is. All superficiality's. Yes this pope smokes, but does that make him a sinner?I think when we are all nicely dressed in church on Sunday, aren't we just wallowing in pride. Showing of how good we look. Are we truly searching god? Really accepting the body and blood of Christ? Does church help us find god? Where is the mystery? The divine aspect? Why look at the pope while god is always in and with us. Christ taught us that to be truthful. And this pope is truthful. How can we be truthful?This series is beautiful attempt in addressing the very essential questions on God in our lives in a new way.Paolo Sorrentino is an absolute master. Thank you for making this. And for anyone willing a true relationship with god this is a great way in finding new and challenging old perspectives.

Maryanne Smart I love Jude Law, and I was so up for a gripping HBO series addiction, but after the first episode, I was distracted and un-engaged. It might just be me, but every dramatic moment, every bit of profound dialogue followed by thoughtful violin music, landed flat. The new pope is American for some reason - cool. He's vindictive, petty and contrary - got it. He may or may not actually be an atheist sociopath - okay.So? So that's it I guess. Watch a mean pope stomp around the Vatican ordering cherry coke zeros and being rude to people who are forced to be reverent to him. If you like it, if it blows your mind, power to you. I might check out what else is on.

joefatica The Hero leaves the comforts and certainties of home, takes chances, makes mistakes, trusts and doubts in his abilities and judgments, makes enemies and friends looses what he loves and gains love and respect in the end returning full circle to some realization. And the pain we carry with us where ever we go;let's not forget that? This show is beautiful. I love the characters. A great ensemble cast. If it doesn't show us exactly how things are it shows us how they should be and that's important. Great storytelling!

mukava991 When he isn't dispensing cynical and often profane comments or cruelly taunting and teasing underlings, he alternates cigarette smoking with workouts on high-tech gym equipment. He is cold, remote, manipulative and downright repellent. In fact he has no redeeming qualities. Even his sketchy back story as an unwanted boy left in a Catholic orphanage by hippie parents fails to elicit enough sympathy to sustain interest in his trajectory through ten episodes. Such is the title character, played by Jude Law, of this undramatic and unsatisfying series, straining for irony at every turn, about the inexplicable election to Pope of a 40-ish American upstart with a murky past.The stilted dialogue comes off as carefully memorized line recitations. This is particularly evident with Silvio Orlando, the Italian actor who plays Cardinal Voiello, Law's chief rival in the Vatican viper's nest, who also sports a hideous black wart on his left cheek as if to symbolize something morbid and ugly in his nature. If the Vatican hierarchy is as rotten, cynical and hypocritical as depicted here, then upheaval is surely called for. Many supporting characters whose place in the tapestry is unclear enough as it is, also speak with thick accents, requiring yet more effort from the already fatigued listener. In fact there are four languages dominating: English, Italian, Spanish and Latin – the latter used in extended ceremonial sequences. Law's dry, generic American accent is technically correct but lacks individualistic character. Diane Keaton seems bewilderingly miscast as the nun who has been in charge of Law since his abandonment, but her character as written is virtually unplayable. The ultra-formal staging of scenes and artsy camera angles further distance the proceedings. Fellini-esque touches involving a kangaroo imported by the Pope that pops up now and then around the Vatican garden and interludes with a disabled youth apparently under the care of Cardinal Voiello draw attention to themselves but serve no worthwhile purpose.Jude Law has a few memorable, original and beautiful moments in this uninvolving oddity but they are so extrinsic to the whole that their power is diminished.