Immaculate
Neon | Release Date: March 22, 2024 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
57
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 39 Critic Reviews
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17
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19
Negative:
3
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
90
TheWrapChase HutchinsonMar 13, 2024
Giving life to a horror vision that would not have nearly the same power and potency without her at the forefront of it, Sweeney has never been better than she is here. What a darkly beautiful yet brutal, bloody and bold film this is for her to wield. Read full review
80
Film ThreatBenjamin FranzMar 26, 2024
This is a hard film to watch. If you can stomach it and its terrors, this film rewards you with a cracking good fireside story Read full review
80
The Irish TimesDonald ClarkeMar 21, 2024
It would be nothing without a charismatic star at its heart. Sweeney is certainly that – and, as the final shot confirms, she is as game as they come. Nun more fun. Read full review
80
The GuardianRadheyan SimonpillaiMar 21, 2024
Sweeney’s fight for bodily autonomy, against religious fanatics in Immaculate, transcends the screen in a way most B-movies like it could only pray for. Read full review
80
The New York TimesManohla DargisMar 21, 2024
Immaculate doesn’t try to reinvent anything but instead cheerfully embraces the familiar, which is part of what makes the movie enjoyable. Read full review
80
Los Angeles TimesKatie WalshMar 20, 2024
It’s goopy, gross fun, if not entirely terrifying, and if there’s a weak link, it’s the screenplay, which toys with deeper social and sexual themes but skims along the surface and leaves loose ends untied. Read full review
75
ObserverDylan RothMar 20, 2024
There are and have been countless Hollywood actresses for whom this role would be particularly resonant, but for this moment, there’s no better person to tell this story than Sydney Sweeney. And, thankfully, she gets to tell it on her own terms. Read full review
72
PolygonAusten GoslinMar 20, 2024
The movie is full of mood and carefully paced terror that is more sustained than bolstered, with a plotty ending that never pays off the movie’s conspiratorial promise. The good news is, in true exploitation fashion, the movie’s final moments are grisly, pitch-black, and perfect. Read full review
70
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriMar 22, 2024
Mohan seduces us with form while the central performance engages us on a more elemental level. Read full review
70
TimeStephanie ZacharekMar 22, 2024
It’s bad-gal blasphemy of the highest order. Read full review
70
VarietyStephen SaitoMar 13, 2024
No small part of the satisfaction of Immaculate comes from witnessing someone find faith in herself. Read full review
67
The A.V. ClubMatthew JacksonMar 25, 2024
Uneven and sometimes predictable though it is, it’s a film that knows how to push the buttons of its particular subgenre, and you get the sense that any number of stars might have been able to carry it in the right context. You also get the sense, from the very first moment she’s onscreen to the unforgettable final frame, that none of those other possible stars could have carried it quite as well as Sweeney. Read full review
67
Austin ChronicleAlejandra MartinezMar 21, 2024
It’s deranged, but also at times curiously defanged. At least it’s still a fun, bloody watch, even if it frustrates along the way. Read full review
65
The AtlanticDavid SimsMar 29, 2024
It’s a straightforward piece of genre silliness, an 89-minute thrill fest crammed with the requisite jump scares and creepy religious imagery. But it’s also part of a larger body of evidence that Sweeney, unlike the guileless characters she often portrays, is carefully constructing her career in ways that suit her skill set. Read full review
63
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliMar 25, 2024
Immaculate is at times unsettling and the ending contains a strong shock element but the movie as a whole feels a little too familiar to engage its audience. Read full review
63
Washington PostJen YamatoMar 20, 2024
A modern Gothic slow burn that simmers in pedestrian frights until it finally boils over into bursts of delicious, gory violence. When it does, anchored by an impressive performance by Sydney Sweeney, the bloodshed isn’t just welcome but cathartic, a gonzo takedown of religious patriarchy with one hell of a memorable finale that reconfirms the good news: Nunsploitation is back, baby. Read full review
63
Slant MagazineDerek SmithMar 14, 2024
The film’s final act contains some of the most twisted, gory violence this particular subgenre of horror has seen in years, ultimately recalling nothing less than the films of the ultra-violent New French Extremity movement. Read full review
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