Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
positive
1(8%)
mixed
7(58%)
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Jul 23, 2015
63
Like technological innovation itself, the film seems overwhelmed by the reach of all its techo-cultural parts.
Jul 23, 2015
60
The director Mark Neveldine deploys queasy lighting and a trembling score, but his best choice is to let Ms. Dudley stare at us. She conveys unnerving shifts in self-awareness and sinister intent with her eyes.
Jun 28, 2017
60
The Vatican Tapes relies heavily on its third act, but if you can stomach its more generic beginnings, you'll be treated to an exorcism story with higher stakes than normal.
Jul 28, 2015
50
The Vatican Tapes is basically “Exorcism’s Greatest Hits” played by a schlocky cover band.
Jul 26, 2015
40
Writers Christopher Borrelli and Michael C. Martin commit quite a handful of sins of contrivance that are difficult to absolve.
Jul 22, 2015
33
In nearly every way—from how the movie’s being released to the way it approaches the whole satanic possession subgenre — The Vatican Tapes is dispiritingly ordinary. It’s the rote B-movie that Neveldine up to now has tried so hard not to make.
Jul 26, 2015
30
At no point does this film strive to be more than a second-rate version of what it is: a halfhearted attempt to make some scratch while pretending the devil exists. Some trick.
