The melodrama is amped up early and if they had found a way to exorcise those demons rather than the standard, predictable supernatural ones maybe there would be something worthy of discussion, but that compelling idea is soon lost to the same old noise.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 26, 2024

With every over-the-top line of dialogue and tone-deaf gamble, The Deliverance inches closer to becoming a parody of itself.

| Original Score: D | Oct 25, 2024

Great performances cannot hide how bad this movie is. The script and direction never earns the acting talent at the movie's disposal.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Oct 23, 2024

For when the possession tropes begin, the film’s quality takes a severe nose-dive as every Exorcist knock-off that’s hindered many a genre outing gets unveiled quicker than projectile vomit.

| Oct 7, 2024

Daniels isn't always able to find a steady equilibrium between melodrama and drama. But his cast is compelling enough to ground even the most outlandish moments

| Sep 27, 2024

A promising slow burn that is quickly doused by a flood of weak tea.

| Original Score: 6.5/10 | Sep 21, 2024

Fun if you go in without expectations.

| Sep 16, 2024

Daniels is in unhinged mode here, reveling in the disreputable, R-rated trappings...this is trash. Tasty, succulent trash.

| Sep 16, 2024

While the deliverance tackles some important and interesting themes in the beginning, the plot slowly unravels and becomes a generic and poorly handled horror movie by the end.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Sep 13, 2024

The final act is a sludgy mess of gross-out gimmicks, ultimately too disappointing to offer up any real scares.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 13, 2024

... It's a good ensemble and Daniels knows how to direct them. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 10, 2024

The Deliverance is a wild crazy ride anchored by by Andra Day, Mo'Nique and the phenomenally fierce Glenn Close.

| Sep 7, 2024

It starts to lose coherence about 20 minutes in and completely derails about halfway through. Unfortunately, that leaves another 45 minutes of increasingly baffling nonsense.

| Sep 7, 2024

Daniels’ baroque approach to drama translates nicely to a horror framework. It’s unfortunate, then, that the specifics of the possession subgenre prove a trickier task for the director.

| Sep 6, 2024

Imagine if William Peter Blatty had co-written “The Big Book” of Alcoholics Anonymous. In theory, that doesn’t sound particularly appetizing, but Daniels damn near makes it work.

| Sep 6, 2024

For about an hour or so, it’s almost as if Daniels is attempting to make a psychological drama about the horrors that plague Black families. But the final act, with its loud religiosity and inept storytelling, belongs in a different movie altogether.

| Sep 6, 2024

Lee Daniels isn’t exactly presenting progress, but I can’t say his way of going big bores me, either.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Sep 6, 2024

Glenn Close nails her role. You have got to be a wild character to upstage a demon. If you can't give her an Academy Award, at least give her a BET award.

| Sep 5, 2024

The Deliverance holds significant narrative potential but gets lost in a failed attempt to balance serious family drama with absurd supernatural horror.

| Original Score: D+ | Sep 4, 2024

It's yet another haunted house movie that barely distinguishes itself from the pack.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 4, 2024