The Nun

When it leans into its camp, (I.e. when the French-Canadian “Frenchie” is on screen), The Nun comes closest to its ideal form of go-to midnight-movie, the fun younger cousin of the Conjuring movies with less build-up but more of the money shots you’ll come to a theater to see.

The real nun in the movie is the heroine, played by a spirited Taissa Farmiga, and the dramatic weight falls on her able shoulders.

As a piece of the larger Conjuring universe puzzle, The Nun is a fun, if ineffectual history lesson that will provide fans with plenty of dots to connect. On its own merits, The Nun stumbles by not delivering any real terror or investment in its characters, instead resting on its strong visuals and atmosphere and, strangely, humor.

A presence that initially was disturbing grows repetitive and almost predictable over the course of an entire film.

Despite its clammy atmosphere and two credible and appealing leads, the movie is mechanical in its rhythms and unimaginative in its terrors.

The Nun resorts to makeup effects to put a frightening face on its supposedly scary sisters.

It’s about as effective as a Walgreens Halloween display, where any terror derives from uninspiring shock value, and given that each and every pop-up scare can be seen from over a mile away, the movie fails in that respect, too. It’s exhausting even.

This film is highly enjoyable. Whilst the film suffers from some poor musical placement choices, the film delivers a thrill ride of laughs and action. The Nun is a return to the classic monster film such as Frankenstein. If you wish to see the back broken of Nun's, Frenchies and more Nuns; this is your film.

The nun wasn't a good movie but it was okay it could have been better it was scary but it was not like a lot scary so that's why I get it like a six

Taissa Ferminga shines in this "Conjuring" spin off and it offers up moments of creepiness. Overall, it's not bad but it still could have been better.

If the scary/thriller movie genre is not your cup of tea, then this movie is clearly not for you. However, if you enjoy a good scary movie, this is also not the movie for you. The Nun is a movie that relies heavily on cheap jump scares (ones not even delivered well) and seems to just drag on, mostly because of side plot(s) that add little to nothing to the movie other than a padded runtime. There were some decent visuals throughout the movie that grab your interest, but mostly it just goes through the scary movie cliches checklist. And why in these movies do these evil demons from hell mess with everyone like some bad prankster? Overall, The Nun was a poorly told scary movie, that really wasn't that scary.

Vow To No More Wow. The Nun Hardy's drama is, yes, scary, but also comes with a ton of baggage that cannot be negotiated. This is what I have loved and flinched about this franchise, it dares constraint the all mighty power- "God Ends Here" it whispers- but fumbles to prove it. This mixed feeling is what's left in your hand at the end of the exorcism, is it a marketing tease or inadequacy, only God knows; if it is in its territory. The knack for drawing out humor and delivering cliched cinematic dialogues in an extremely tensed environment disenchants the viewers from its dark perilous vision and compromises the quality. Antics are smart enough to scar you let alone scare you, but as much as gripping as these sequences are, the build up of them aren't weaved out with clean execution, there is a lot of uncertainty in their own laws, the mythology lacks the malleability to blatantly announce or demand their rights. This installment is the most animated of all, and surprisingly the scariest of all, the neat environment and the poised nature of the demons is something to be inspired from. The real culprit is the predictability of the film, not for the characters, but for the sequences that the maker loves immensely, it aches you to see someone with so much effort working on one big hokum. There is no other room for the cast to invest, it is all Farmiga, from the curse to the blessing. If this is a horror served us by the makers, she comes off as the impenetrable beauty, the kryptonite to the evil, her performance justifies all the work done by her elder sister in previous installments. The Nun is worthy of a vow as far as thrills are concerned, drama has to be searched for and later be disappointed by.