The Two Popes: Anthony Hopkins and Jonathan Pryce divine in papal faceoff

Hopkins's Benedict XVI and Pryce's Francis I make for a winning Vatican odd couple in this succession drama whose careful script ends not with a bang but a wimple Anthony Hopkins and Jonathan Pryce find some tremendous actorly form in this humorous, indulgent, lop-sidedly sentimental "Pope-off" which becomes a Pontiff bromance adapted by Frank Cottrell-Boyce from Anthony McCarten's stage-play and directed by Fernando Meirelles.It's an entertaining if preposterous imagining of private meetings su...