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A Miraculously Impressive Movie About the First American Saint Mother ‘Cabrini’ Is a Masterpiece (Movie Review)

Mike Szymanski
6 min readJan 18, 2024

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Cabrini

Rating: 10/10

Director: Alejandro Monteverde

Writers: Rod Barr and Alejandro Monteverde a

Style: Bio-pic

Time: 2 hours and 20 minutes

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPwnYlJ2L_c

John Lithgow as an unsympathetic New York mayor

Review by Mike Szymanski

Perhaps a story about a nun who becomes a saint is not a movie you’d sit down and care to watch, but this is not that.

Maybe you think that a movie that involves nuns may make you think that there is a lot of singing and sweetness.

Or, perhaps a bio-pic that takes place in the early 20th Century may seem stale and dated.

Well, you would be wrong to all of the above.

This movie “Cabrini” is a true masterpiece about a piece of history you may not ever have heard of. It is dramatic, poetic, inspirational, tragic and awe-inspiring. Not only are there incredible settings and breathtaking camera work at…

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Mike Szymanski
Mike Szymanski

Written by Mike Szymanski

Journalist, writer, activist and bisexual, living with Multiple Sclerosis and Dachshunds in Hollywood.

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