The denouement spills over into hoary melodrama, but this is a distinctive slice of gothic realism whose social critique is unsettlingly sharp.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 21, 2025

"Raging Grace is a sociopolitical thriller that might wander too far into the absurd but does so with immense confidence and style."

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 18, 2025

Raging Grace is effectively a solid and chilling debut from Zarcilla.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jul 12, 2024

combines sharp social critique with supernatural sentiment, making Raging Grace queasy, creepy and utterly brilliant.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 9, 2024

Paris Zarcilla’s Raging Grace is a powerful, occasionally funny, and dark exploration of how whiteness impacts the lives of immigrants, particularly Filipino immigrants living in the United Kingdom.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Apr 7, 2024

The film is shrewdly directed, intelligent and entertaining, from a director who knows how to play his audience’s nerves like a piano, and its funny bone like an idiophone.

| Mar 7, 2024

The story in Raging Grace gets a bit messy, and some of the acting is too stiff, but it's a genuinely unique horror movie that succeeds in offering many effective jump scares along with astute observations about immigrant exploitation.

| Jan 3, 2024

Grace is the film’s hidden ace — almost its mascot, playful and mischievous, with more to her than meets the eye.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 2, 2024

Peel back the cliches and there’s something interesting here: a gnawing sense of injustice and biting social commentary.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 31, 2023

Zarcilla strains so hard to match the politics of the premise with the parameters of horror that he ends up diluting both — imagine Roma meets Poltergeist, or The Maid meets Insidious.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 29, 2023

Raging Grace elegantly balances gothic horror and social drama.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 28, 2023

Zarcilla may have more ideas than this film can easily accommodate, or the viewer easily swallow, but he is a distinctly stylish and confident director to keep an eye on.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 28, 2023

There is ingenuity here, and good acting, but the film for me feels flawed by its strained melodrama, an absence of scares and by a very odd scene of almost unreal, farcical absurdity.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 27, 2023

The final act doesn’t quite hold together, but the overall intent is more than effective.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 24, 2023

The horror films that hold the biggest, lasting cultural impact hold a mirror up to society, and Raging Grace (which understandably won several awards at SXSW this year) does it better than most.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Dec 20, 2023

Using elements from gothic horror, writer/director Paris Zarcilla gives us a film with tension, haunted house atmosphere and for some, a few jump scares while also addressing some socio-political themes head on.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 17, 2023

With Eigenmann and Boadilla delivering standout performances, Raging Grace is a must-watch that fearlessly explores the intersection of horror and social commentary.

| Dec 14, 2023

A strong central performance and relevant themes related to the hardships immigrants regularly confront will command your attention, even if the mystery at the center of the plot isn’t entirely satisfying.

| Dec 12, 2023

Raging Grace is a breath of fresh air and does things that are difficult to pull off in movie making, like showcasing a story that’s not often told, do it in an engaging and satisfying way...

| Dec 9, 2023

Although it indulges in genre tropes, this thoughtful and atmospheric British drama with a horror twist is layered with relevant social commentary and rich cultural specificity.

| Dec 8, 2023