I completely checked out by the halfway mark, occasionally made to sit upright by the obnoxiously loud noises the film mistakes for scares.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 14, 2024

It’s not nearly as horrible as The Nun, and honestly, that’s a good compliment for such a typical, cliche horror flick. Michael Chaves truly saves what could have been a disaster with another director.

| Original Score: C+ | Jul 24, 2023

The Curse of La Llorona replaces storytelling for incessant jump scares.

| Original Score: D+ | Mar 8, 2023

“La Llorona” gets off on the right foot and Cardellini does what she can. But it’s yet another Conjuring installment built on a promising idea but with execution that feels all too familiar.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 19, 2022

The franchise continues, whether you want it to or not, because each entry is relatively inexpensive, and because they earn hundreds of millions at the box-office. Although you might need a flowchart to determine how they all fit together.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 3, 2022

A Mexican folk legend is co-opted by the beloved Conjuring franchise, with some success, but not enough.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Feb 4, 2021

Aggressively fine.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 30, 2020

At the end of the day I can't be mad about is film because it is what it is, it serves a purpose it's a simple story.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Dec 16, 2020

The wheels begin to come off the film pretty quickly, with a soporific middle act of clunky, pseudo-religious exposition.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 15, 2020

Outside of just feeling wedged in and laughable, it feels like the filmmakers didn't have enough faith in the material to allow it to stand on its own and that a bigger audience might be generated if it tied together with this other horror mega-franchise.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 21, 2020

The Curse of La Llorona is the sixth film in the hugely popular Conjuring franchise. While the other films have continued to entertain, this newest entry lacks depth and energy, instead just repackaging things we've already seen.

| Jul 12, 2020

It offers cheap thrills with little substance, taking advantage of a folktale but not enriching or expanding upon it.

| Original Score: C- | Jul 8, 2020

Most of the good work in this mid-strength horror movie is handled by a sinister spectre infamous in Mexican folklore as a one-size-fits-all boogeywoman.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 20, 2020

[E]xtremely boring cinema.

| Mar 17, 2020

A very long time coming, The Curse of La Llorona, ultimately fails to entertain much less scare.

| Original Score: 4 | Feb 10, 2020

It would have been fresh to set this film in Mexico, centred on a Mexican family and have it steeped in an entirely different landscape and culture. Instead, it's the same story seen many times before - an innocent American family targeted by ghouls.

| Sep 27, 2019

The performances are good, but I wanted more complexity for the original folk tale of La Llorona.

| Sep 27, 2019

The appearance by Father Perez marks this as another entry in The Conjuring Universe, but I daresay that a character from a different Warner property -- say, Clint Eastwood's drug smuggler from The Mule -- would have made for a more interesting crossover.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 17, 2019

The Curse of La Llorona whitewashes iconic Mexican folklore and replaces it with tense scares but nothing of substance.

| Original Score: 4.5/10 | Aug 17, 2019

The movie delivers on the jump scares, and gets extra points for exploring Mexican folklore. Yet, The Curse of La Llorona suffers from generic plot and easily forgettable characters.

| Aug 13, 2019