Evans departs from his usual action fare to weave a gripping story centered around unique Pagan-like mythology steeped in blood and sacrifice. It's folk horror, but with a new level of brutality and viscera unlike most of its ilk.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Dec 17, 2018

A muddled Wicker Man-inspired horror that has bursts of style, but fails to find depth beneath its blood-spewing surface.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 15, 2018

But for the most part, it's a breathlessly oppressive experience, a dark and sometimes strikingly beautiful film that lives up to its most obvious cinematic forefathers.

| Oct 13, 2018

If you're on the hunt for a frightening and original horror movie, it's a stellar choice.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 12, 2018

Apostle gets too bound up in the island cult it's meant to be escaping.

| Oct 12, 2018

Apostle is ultimately an absorbing, horrifying movie that's maybe not as smart as it wants to be. But it is a lot stranger, and more disturbing, than you might expect.

| Oct 12, 2018

I'm not sure 'Apostle' quite justifies its 130-minute running time, but you have to say this about it: It's like nothing else you could include in your annual Halloween horror marathon this year.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 12, 2018

That rarest of treats: a horror movie that starts out as one thing, and finishes having mutated into another.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 12, 2018

This is a timely tussle with a nation's collective sense of shame.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 12, 2018

A Gothic horror mystery that's less like an adrenaline shot to the heart than a rusty, hand-cranked drill to the skull.

| Oct 12, 2018

Alas, everything here is muted build-up with little pay-off. Psychological realism is abandoned. Characters switch loyalties and temperaments for no reason.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 12, 2018

Evans' signature intensity translates seamlessly in Apostle...

| Original Score: B- | Oct 12, 2018

The film's victims are simply pawns in a super-gory bacchanal, which is aesthetically striking but emotionally dull.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 11, 2018

Shifting his energies to a Victorian-era island blood cult hasn't dimmed Evans' taste for feverish body harm, but it's more clearly laid bare his narrative shortcomings.

| Oct 11, 2018

Feels like a mash-up of 2015's arthouse chiller The Witch and 1973's original The Wicker Man, without being as engagingly creepy as either one of those movies.

| Original Score: B- | Oct 11, 2018

Evans will likely disappoint many of the fans he has attracted here; while the film does build to some gory battles, it's hardly a thrill ride.

| Oct 2, 2018

A sharp dissection of religious fervour abetted by cinematic extremes.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 2, 2018

By the time Apostle arrives at its big reveal, the movie has veered off on so many tangled pathways that the ending can't resolve them all.

| Original Score: C | Sep 26, 2018

(Dan Stevens) true calling is clearly to be covered in viscera and forced to face off against a power-mad Michael Sheen in a grisly and gory horror-thriller.

| Sep 22, 2018