More than the surprising and sometimes absurd comedy, the discussions and genuine explorations of faith are what make Agnes different.

| Jul 11, 2024

Reece ambitiously flips the movie into a heart-bending moment that focuses on the life of Mary, the one who needs special care from her superiors.

| Jul 20, 2023

While the movie tries to be clever with its dramatic shift in tone and completely new direction, it ends up feeling like two different films connected by the barest of threads. Even worse, neither story gets any kind of satisfying ending.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 16, 2022

Agnes, for all its quirkiness, is memorable as hell, delivering something truly unique and surprisingly poignant.

| Apr 9, 2022

Looking past what the film is trying to be and more analyzing what the film ends up being, it is safe to say that the positives of Agnes definitely outweigh the negatives of the feature.

| Original Score: B | Feb 12, 2022

Reece pulls out all the stops to create a wholly unique experience that subverts some of the usual suspects that frequent religious horror.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 12, 2022

Through its subversion of genre, precision blending of tones, and compelling performances that flit between idiosyncratic and naturalistic, Agnes is a welcome addition to the exorcism subgenre.

| Original Score: B+ | Feb 8, 2022

... boring, silly, blasphemous, bloody... as long as it seems random or wrong. Too tame to be considered "nunsploitation" yet too silly to be thought of as subvert, Agnes wastes its cast likes it wastes our time.

| Original Score: 0/4 | Jan 3, 2022

...you will cherish the meditative, unexpected detours Reece's engrossing film takes.

| Dec 31, 2021

The filmmakers create an immersive atmosphere, and keep us intrigued throughout. Best of all, they give us an exorcism story that we truly have not seen before.

| Original Score: B | Dec 17, 2021

A strange and beautiful tale of sex, religion, and dysfunction at the Carmelite convent of Santa Teresa.

| Dec 12, 2021

While confronting some provocative themes, the film lacks the dexterity to effectively juggle elements of broad comedy, gory horror, and introspective drama.

| Dec 11, 2021

A choppy, muddled mess of a movie that has its own identity crisis of what it wants to be or to show.

| Dec 11, 2021

Despite having elements of a typical exorcism movie, this isn't a horror tale as much as it is a comedy with jokes in the most unusual spots and a meditation on faith and what forms it takes.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 11, 2021

For all of its ruffled habits and bleeding eyes, Agnes is far sadder than it is scary (quite, versus not at all), and often sillier than it is sad.

| Original Score: B | Dec 11, 2021

Unpredictability is Agnes' greatest strength; its genre-hybridity lends a mixed bag of emotions, ultimately emerging as a raw tale about loss.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 11, 2021

'Agnes' will certainly surprise you. It presents itself as rib on exorcism movies that have come before it. Then it ventures into a thoughtful excavation of faith and what to do when you lose it.

| Dec 10, 2021

The result is unlikely to please most viewers.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 10, 2021

Reece shows an intuitive understanding of when to move the camera, and -- more importantly -- when not to move the camera. It's all very elegantly put together.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 10, 2021

Disturbing, occasionally violent, Agnes is a genre breaker that veers into unanticipated areas of drama, some of it absurd. The horror is more aligned with mood and atmosphere than shock and gore, like Ken Russell's The Devils.

| Original Score: A | Dec 9, 2021