Religious undercurrents gradually reach flood tide in this tale — written and produced by Ben Shapiro — of a seemingly innocent man arrested as a counterrevolutionary in the 1938 Soviet Union.
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Daily Wire Although “Confessions” is based on an original screenplay by Ben Shapiro — the arch-conservative writer whose Daily Wire media company is distributing the film, and whose very name in the credits will prime some critics to expect the worst from the get-go — it plays like an adaptation of a stage play that no one involved considered opening up for the screen. Indeed, Czech director Václav Marhoul (“The Painted Bird”) provides a fade to black between most sequences, suggesting prime spots for intermissions.
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