A compelling exploration of faith and the construction of identity, with a soaring performance from Vincent Lindon.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 4, 2019

Overlong and unconvincing in the end.

| Sep 22, 2018

The result is something rare: a genuinely engaging cinematic treatment of faith, one that offers revelations even as it casts a gimlet eye on Revelation.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 14, 2018

The Apparition undoubtedly has timely points to make about the survival of medieval beliefs in a post-Enlightenment world, but sadly does not tell them in a timely fashion.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 13, 2018

A bona fide thriller of faith, The Apparition is the best dramatic feature this critic has seen about spirituality, belief or even the church in years.

| Sep 8, 2018

There are ideas knocking around in this movie that, despite its overlong 144 minutes, are worth the time.

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 7, 2018

The resolution is clever, giving both secular and religious viewers something to hold on to, but unsatisfying in giving short shrift to the final piece of its complicated puzzle.

| Original Score: C+ | Sep 7, 2018

More successful than the likes of films such as God's Not Dead and its ilk. As an example of satisfying dramatic storytelling, however, it falls frustratingly short.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 7, 2018

An involving and intelligent entertainment, if it ends up somewhat less than the sum of its parts, it's not for lack of attempting something different.

| Sep 6, 2018

The movie, which for two hours is an absorbing, detailed procedural, becomes... willfully diffuse in its final 20 minutes.

| Sep 6, 2018

[A] peculiar yet provocative film, which exerts a slow, mesmeric pull over the course of nearly 2 1/2 hours.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 6, 2018

For regular moviegoers, [it] will seem most remarkable for what it is not. So accustomed are we to yarns of demonic possession that the beatific equivalent comes as quite a shock. No howling fiends are in attendance.

| Aug 31, 2018

Narrative non sequiturs abound, as does corny dialogue ...and an entirely unconvincing sense that Anna and Jacques are spiritually intertwined.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 6, 2018

A flawed but heartfelt film about the mysterious workings of divine grace, and things that can't entirely be explained away.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 3, 2018

At best, The Apparition has the tingling, drawn-out, truth-game suspense of a Costa-Gavras movie.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 1, 2018

Come for Lindon, stay for young female newcomer, Galatéa Bellugi.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 1, 2018

The Apparition is often entertaining, and sleekly crafted by Xavier Giannoli...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 23, 2018

Overstays its welcome and fails to deliver in the final stretch.

| May 24, 2018