With all the revelations about the corruption of the Roman Catholic Curia and the Vatican Bank going on these days, the plotline of GFIII is especially salient and prescient. I have ragged on this film as much as anyone, but the performances by Andy Garcia, and the guy who played the Archbishop are really very good.

The silent scream, the soliloquy at Dontomassino's coffin, the transfer of power, the scene with Andy Garcia and Bridgette Fonda in his apartment and a few others are excellent.

I am going to take a vacation from complaining about Sofia Coppola. She has turned out to be a first rate director in her own right. She was thrown into the Mary role by her father when Wynona Ryder who was supposed to play the role got sick and couldn't do it. What was Sofia supposed to do?