The Reckoning

Basing his film on the novel Morality Play by Barry Unsworth and a screenplay by Mark Mills, McGuigan shows a world in which characters project a rigid self-confidence which, when cracked, reveals venom.

...a slender morality play set in rural 14th-century England.

...the movie focuses on the ways that faith can be overwhelmed by circumstance and deliberate deception.

A troupe of medieval actors looking to freshen up their material expose a serial murderer in this moody, oddly compelling period drama.

The middle ages get a modern kick in avisually and intellectually inventive medieval murder mystery...