Perhaps its worst mistake is categorizing it as a horror film. It has nothing to do with the genre... [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 7/10 | Nov 30, 2023

A prefabricated plot with a predictable conclusion, cardboard characters, and an aesthetic devoid of that imagery with which Bergman dressed his stories about the dark contours of belief. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 30, 2023

Although it has a strong beginning and a great premise, the truly terrifying part is watching this movie go off the rails. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Nov 10, 2023

A psychological thriller that gets bogged down in its own game. [Full review in Spanish]

| Nov 9, 2023

A theological, philosophical, and metaphysical debate couched in the psychological thriller genre. The world currently needs this debate of atheism vs. a creation featuring a rock-solid moral underpinning that never changes due to human whims.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 27, 2023

After kicking things off with a pretty solid fake out, the film settles into a repetitive rhythm that quickly becomes tiresome.

| Jun 19, 2023

A battle of wits between a psychiatrist and possible demon makes for a tense film.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Apr 24, 2023

Nefarious has been inaccurately described as a horror movie. It's a poorly made psychological drama about a death row inmate, with no real scares and too much over-acting. As this dull movie drones on, it becomes preachy propaganda for right-wing beliefs.

| Apr 23, 2023

Nefarious advertises itself as a possession thriller but pulls a bait & switch to deliver a Christian and Conservative propaganda piece. Flanery does his best to elevate what is otherwise a 90 minute sermon on abortion, euthanasia, and the death penalty.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Apr 22, 2023

On the whole, the script, the ­cinematography, and the acting are all well done—but the ending falls apart with a clichéd climax to the action and an injudicious epilogue.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 21, 2023

If you like your demons on the preachy side, then you may enjoy [this movie]. The rest of us will find [it]...tedious, heavy-handed and indoctrinating.

| Original Score: 1.25/5 | Apr 20, 2023

The film's heavy-handed and bogus message tells us that Hollywood is immoral because it acts to corrupt its viewer's minds.

| Original Score: D | Apr 18, 2023

Aside from a few questionable decisions, Nefarious is interesting enough to give it a watch. Just leave prejudice behind and enjoy the possession take they're going for.

| Original Score: 2.8/5 | Apr 17, 2023

Well-acted and with decent production values, this faith-based thriller unfortunately gets stuck in its two-person back-and-forth sermoning, making it all too obvious what the outcome will be.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 15, 2023

While there are moments of intensity in Nefarious, there isn't a moment in the film that feels like cinematic horror unless you're talking about one of those evangelical haunted houses where demons pop out of the walls to warn of the evils of the world.

| Original Score: 1.0/4.0 | Apr 15, 2023

Nefarious builds to a howler of a climax that delivers exactly what you’d anticipate from the makers of God’s Not Dead, just in an even more preposterous way. The big scene would be perfect for an Airplane!-style spoof of evangelical-themed films.

| Original Score: 0.5/4 | Apr 14, 2023

Character-based thriller uses spare setting for big-time chills sans gore.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 14, 2023

Nefarious may not be great filmmaking, but it is confident filmmaking, and sometimes that can get you exactly where you want to go.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 13, 2023

Subtlety is not the film’s strong point. Neither is casting.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 13, 2023

[T]he storytelling ... [is] sacrificed at the altar of messaging.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 13, 2023