This weekend, the Robert Harris adaptation Conclave, directed by All Quiet On The Western Front’s Edward Berger, is released in British cinemas. Since its premiere earlier this year, the ecclesiastical-themed thriller,

Helmed by Edward Berger, the religious thriller drama ‘Conclave‘ stars Ralph Fiennes as Thomas Lawrence, a British Cardinal who is responsible for conducting the papal conclave following the pope’s death.

Adapting Robert Harris’s bestseller, the movie finds a groove of high-end professionalism. The casting department is particularly overachieving. You realise that, somewhere in your mind’s eye, you have always imagined Stanley Tucci and John Lithgow as regal cardinals, more or less exactly as they both turn up among contenders for the throne.

There is one sin which I have come to fear above all others: certainty.” That line, delivered by the always reliable Ralph Fiennes, is the core of director Edward Berger’s excellent new papal thriller,

Ralph Fiennes is Oscar-worthy astonishing - 5/5 Edward Berger’s account of cardinals battling to be the new Pope is a thrilling succession story, and Ralph Fiennes is simply hypnotic