Get Religion reports on the nervous reviews, including this one in The Hollywood Reporter

What’s troubling from a political point of view is that these filmmakers have, perhaps unwittingly, delivered a film certain to give succor to the religious right. In this ethical horror story, scientists experimenting with human genetics to advance medicine and cure illness are cast as Dr. Frankenstein villains. The chief villain, Dr. Merrick (Sean Bean), mouths platitudes about curing leukemia but clearly has greed in his heart.

It’s never "troubling" when movies "give succor" to environmentalists, secular feminism or other ideologies. I daresay that if Dr. Merrick were a hero, the film would not be "troubling" but rather..oh, I dunno…"nuanced" or "complex," don’t you think?

On an another spot on the life issues/pop culture frontier, you have to wonder where Six Feet Under is headed. How can we avoid the irony of Nate, fussing for weeks about the unacceptability of a disabled child who would be so much darn trouble…being felled by his own brain anomoly, perhaps being left seriously impaired, dependent on the care of others?

(Unless he’s dead of course.)