the best acting was between Charlotte Rampling and Michael Caine, but Tilda Swinton does quiet well also.Perfectly paced, tense throughout, full of no-sympathy for Michael Caine nor all the priests who are helping him. Tilda's role is too stereotyped, but she acts so well it doesn't matter. Northam is something of a throw-in just to have another good character, same as Alan Bates. Caine is superb as the man with the twisted Catholic conscience who thinks he can do immense evil and then confess away hell. There was somewhat too much of the everybody-finds-everybody stuff, and the guys who were killed by Caine were too stupid for words, and that was the only false part of the movie.
Review of The Statement
