Staid horror tries to be provocative and relevant, but fails.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 23, 2024

The Reckoning is tonally confused, ill-conceived, and fails in fulfilling the basic needs of a horror film, neither provocative enough to work as campy grindhouse or serious enough in its history tale.

| Original Score: D | Apr 3, 2024

What’s so special to me is Marshall’s delivered a film about early modern history that speaks so directly to so many pressing issues we continue to face today as a global society.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Nov 22, 2022

Hubble, bubble, The Reckoning toils but ultimately will not trouble the pantheon of witchery classics.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 12, 2022

Here's a movie where the witch trials are not merely evidence of a frightened patriarchal system resorting to violence to maintain control. It's a system that, apparently, fights the very real threat of witches and demons.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Feb 17, 2022

What we do get is empty, lacking in palpable grime and desperately in need of an injection of real black magic.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 29, 2021

Tonally it's dumb and ugly and woefully miscalculated.

| Jun 2, 2021

The Blu-ray itself isn't exactly bare-bones but we're not talking a Criterion level deep dive here, either. Luckily, the deleted scenes found inside actually add some softer, more intimate moments.

| Original Score: 3.0 | May 21, 2021

It is not simply bad - it is the sort of D-grade shelf filler that threatens to ruin careers.

| Original Score: 2/10 | May 21, 2021

By the time she gets helped out of her cell by the most unnecessary side character/savior of all time and finally got to her Revengenda I had pretty much lost all interest in anything that was happening because how? And why? And nope.

| May 10, 2021

It may seem odd to praise a movie as messy as The Reckoning is in places but despite all of its faults it does somehow scratch that particular itch for an occult horror movie that delivers in the old-school way

| Apr 22, 2021

Despite a spirited score and a few other redeeming features, The Reckoning is too clumsy, overlong and generally miscalculated to add up to an intelligent commentary on misogyny, or a satisfying riposte to it.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 18, 2021

The idea of a medieval #MeToo story, examining how powerful men have used witchcraft claims to control women throughout history, is interesting. So it's a shame this is a let-down.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 17, 2021

The Reckoning is the kind of film where the line "Did somebody say [long pause] witch?" is followed by a lightning strike and orchestral smash. You half-expect to see Marty Feldman hobble into view.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 17, 2021

The film left me shaking with anger more than fear.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 14, 2021

A witch-hunt thriller that lacks the texture to be realistic and the no-holds-barred energy to be pulpy.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 14, 2021

The Reckoning is overwritten and overacted. So much so, in fact, that it approaches a level of camp.

| Mar 16, 2021

Though the filmmaking and editing is serviceable, it doesn't feel like the hand of a director who seemed so natural and in control of his previous work.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 9, 2021

Poor Neil Marshall: Neither the director nor his leading lady have the talent to salvage this cheapjack Restoration-era horror flick

| Original Score: D+ | Mar 2, 2021

The Reckoning has a lot of problems that fall under the umbrella of its extremely bizarre tone. ... This film is voyeuristic, exploitative, and uses the specifically sexual horrors of the witch hunt era as an excuse to leer rather than to horrify.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Feb 26, 2021