If you’re looking for a fright, why not spend your Halloweekend watching Conclave, the new Ralph Fiennes movie about a pope with a scandalous secret? After all, nothing is scarier than the Catholic Church.
Directed by German filmmaker Edward Berger—who recently won the Oscar for Best International Feature Film for his 2022 film All Quiet on the Western Front—with a screenplay by Peter Straughan, Conclave is a mystery-thriller based on the 2016 novel of the same name by Robert Harris. Fiennes stars as a Cardinal who must organize the election of the next pope, after the previous pope dies. But in the process, he finds the now-deceased pope was hiding a dark secret that involves his potential successors.
Also starring Stanley Tucci, John Lithgow, Sergio Castellitto, and Isabella Rossellini, Conclave first premiered at the Telluride Film Festival in August, where it was met with positive reviews from critics. Now
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