Sister Aloysius (Amy Ryan), the school’s disciplinarian principal ... is mostly very effective. Schreiber’s hooded quality as an actor—the impassioned voice that emerges from a hard-to ...

Ryan’s Sister Aloysius fully ... were often the equivalent of the public-school athletic coach that masqueraded as a social-scene teacher). Schreiber is anything but nice. As an actor, he ...

And although the head-to-head battles between Sister Aloysius (Ryan) and Father Flynn (Schreiber ... a Bronx grade school principal who is dead certain that the popular new priest is having ...

And although the head-to-head battles between Sister Aloysius (Ryan) and Father Flynn (Schreiber ... is molesting one of the students in her school, but we never are so sure, thanks to John ...

Sister Aloysius (Ryan) is a hardened nun with a hunch: She suspects that Father Flynn (Schreiber) molested Donald Muller, the first and only Black student at their school. “She is a dog with a ...

The principal of a Catholic school in the Bronx in 1964 ... Why, after all, should Aloysius (Amy Ryan) already dislike the popular Flynn (Liev Schreiber) when the action begins?

the priest brings a different energy to St. Nicholas’ church and school, which has been a very formal center of learning run by the stern and unyielding principal, Sister Aloysius (Amy Ryan).

As most in the audience will know, Amy Ryan was a ... Father Flynn (Liev Schreiber) has been targeting – what we would now call grooming – another newcomer to the school, a 12-year-old boy ...