Novitiate

In the early ‘60s, Catholic school student Cathleen Harris (Margaret Qualley), weary of life with her free-spirited, agnostic mother (Julianne Nicholson) and searching for moral clarity, joined a local convent. The rigors that she and her fellow postulates came to face under the Reverend Mother (Melissa Leo)--a hardline conservative with no use for the emerging reforms of Vatican II--inform this compelling drama; Dianna Agron, Liana Liberato, Morgan Saylor, Maddie Hasson also star. 123 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack: English.