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

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

Fun if you go in without expectations.

| Sep 16, 2024

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

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

Well-intentioned, with a strong performance from Andra Day — but uneven human drama eventually gives way to boringly familiar horror tropes. All around, The Deliverance struggles to deliver.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 3, 2024

Once “The Deliverance” turns into a full-tilt genre movie, it offers the kinds of scares we’ve seen countless times before.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 2, 2024

The film succumbs to being undiluted tripe yet still has the gall to bolster itself with a dedication to Latoya, aiming to be taken seriously by simply inventing the gospel truth.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 31, 2024

Yet the intention here is golden, and indicative of a film-maker who has approached a hoary genre with originality and verve, even if The Deliverance does eventually relapse into perfunctory shenanigans.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 30, 2024

A floundering Exorcist wannabe.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 30, 2024

Even talented people can make terrible movies like this all-star, devil-made-me-do-it horror show from Lee Daniels with an overqualified cast underfunded special effects, a sinkhole of a script and a nutso confidence in its own nonexistent profundity.

| Aug 30, 2024

Lee Daniels frees his actors to exorcise their demons with audacious performances that rank among the most memorable of their careers.

| Aug 29, 2024

A subpar exorcism movie that’s all the more depressing for being directed by Lee Daniels, whose distinctive flair is only sporadically spied amidst its shopworn clichés.

| Aug 29, 2024

The Deliverance does jump the shark, but it is undeniably entertaining and powered by terrific over-the-top performances.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 28, 2024

As “Exorcist” knockoffs go, “The Deliverance” is at least highly pedigreed.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Aug 28, 2024

With a terrible inevitability, it just turns into a big, standard-issue derivative sub-Exorcist slice of ridiculous nonsense in which, like so many real-life exorcism films, nobody involved has apparently seen the film The Exorcist.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 17, 2024

In The Deliverance, almost everything to do with the supernatural -- i.e., the devil -- is something you’ve seen way too many times before, and is therefore a lot less scary than it ought to be.

| Aug 17, 2024

Lee Daniels’ effectively chilling albeit somewhat formulaic horror story “The Deliverance,” which is inspired by the story of Latoya Ammons and her family after they moved into a rental home in Gary, Indiana...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 17, 2024

Netflix’s regrettable attempt at subverting expectations results in a throwaway effort that wastes its big names.

| Original Score: C- | Aug 16, 2024

[Daniels'] desire to wrest explicit meaning out of the mother’s experience and corral viewers toward a single conclusion unwittingly places The Deliverance in mawkish and disappointingly cartoonish territory

| Aug 16, 2024

Lee Daniels does such a good job investing us in the human drama of The Deliverance that it almost feels unnecessary when the supernatural elements inevitably take over in the final act.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 16, 2024