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

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

In his feature debut, writer and director Paris Zarcilla proves he is a master storyteller.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Dec 6, 2023

It’s refreshing to see a first feature which isn’t just a calling card, but driven by an authentic need to find a fresh angle on representing an undervalued cultural heritage.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 1, 2023

Paris Zarcilla’s debut is carried by the strength of its cultural specificity, perspective, and lead performers.

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

Raging Grace is too gleefully ridiculous to live up to its didactic ambitions, and too on-the-nose to let its wings of crushed velvet madness truly spread.

| Mar 20, 2023

Paris Zarcilla, the British-born Filipino writer-director here making his feature debut, does an impressive job of infusing scary movie conventions with the potent urgency of a sharply observed social critique.

| Mar 19, 2023

Gets its message across despite all the jump-scares and haunted house hysteria.

| Mar 12, 2023