Admittedly, the film's structure is more interesting than the story itself; if it had been laid out in chronological order, it wouldn't have been very interesting. But Perkins's eerie style is what sells it.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 20, 2024

Keenly and decisively, The Blackcoat’s Daughter carries a nearly strict reliance on suggestion and atmosphere over exploitation.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 16, 2024

The best thing to be said about The Blackcoat’s Daughter is that it’s unconventional. The worst thing is that, for a horror film, it’s neither scary nor creepy.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 18, 2023

An experience that is haunting and chilling that leads you in unexpected directions, which succeeds thanks to its confident direction and nuanced performances.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 20, 2023

Perkins’ budding signature atmosphere wins once again with this, delivering an intriguing story with a moody aesthetic.

| Feb 22, 2023

Deliberately paced, atmospheric with a creeping foreboding, The Blackcoat’s Daughter is a perfect watch on a crisp fall evening, that’ll be sure to take your mind down a dark path.

| Oct 26, 2022

The result is a horror film for those who enjoy more thoughtful chills.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 23, 2022

Full of ominous dread, this understated and contemplative work by Oz Perkins nestles into your head and just sits there. The implications of the finale, featuring fantastic work by both Shipka and Roberts, is haunting.

| Original Score: 4.5 | Mar 9, 2022

Another month, another overhyped horror flick that ultimately represents much ado about nothing.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 22, 2021

The Blackcoat's Daughter (also known as February), is a bleak and cold film about temporal uncertainty, possession, murder, madness and a sadness that comes from a place of spiritual emptiness that we don't yet have words for in the English language.

| Sep 10, 2021

In other words it's a horror film that does not behave like a horror film... the reason I personally changed my views on this film is because the devil is in the details and I have missed so many details.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Apr 14, 2021

I was surprised that I couldn't see my breathe after watching the bone chilling horror film- The Blackcoat's Daughter.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 7, 2021

An impressive victory for a young horror filmmaker on his way to bigger but hopefully just as brooding and baleful things.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Dec 16, 2020

I found February affecting on an emotional level as well, and will be evangelizing for it until it makes it out of the festival circuit and into theaters.

| Original Score: A- | Dec 5, 2020

Solid performances across the board help make The Blackcoat's Daughter a moderately interesting watch, though the predictability hinders the enjoyment and keeps it from realizing its full potential.

| Original Score: C | Jul 2, 2020

[O]ne of the most original, and strongly female-led horror movies of the year thus far.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Oct 7, 2019

It's Hitchcockian in style, however, the thrills are doused in dread to create a surprisingly effective horror movie.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 5, 2019

This creepy indie will form a kinship with horror fans

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 25, 2019

This methodical possession riff further establishes writer/director Oz Perkins as one of the few horror filmmakers whose every work will have my attention, as The Blackcoat's Daughter is a beautiful way to get the jitters.

| Original Score: B+ | Jun 25, 2019

The young leads are all uniformly excellent, but they're stuck in a film that doesn't seem to know what to do with them.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 4, 2019