By: Reel Faith, Dewayne Hamby
"Conclave," releading this week from Focus Features, delves into one of the most secretive and ancient rituals in the world—the selection of a new pope. The film follows Cardinal Lawrence (Ralph Fiennes), who is suddenly thrust into leading this delicate process after the unexpected death of the beloved Pope. Once the world's most powerful Church leaders gather behind the closed doors of the Vatican, Lawrence begins to uncover a web of secrets left by the late pontiff—secrets that threaten to shake the very core of the Catholic Church.