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The Nun

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When a young nun at a cloistered abbey in Romania takes her own life, a priest with a haunted past and a novitiate on the threshold of her final vows are sent by the Vatican to investigate. Together, they uncover the order's unholy secret. Risking not only their lives but their faith and their very souls, they confront a malevolent force in the form of a demonic nun.
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The Nun boasts strong performances, spooky atmospherics, and a couple decent set-pieces, but its sins include inconsistent logic and narrative slackness.

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Bilge Ebiri Rolling Stone Once everyone gets to the abbey, the film simply gives up the ghost and cynically indulges every horror trick in the book. Rated: 2.5/5 Oct 10, 2018 Full Review Matthew Rozsa Salon.com By overly relying on jump scares, "The Nun" uses a mechanical approach toward instilling fear rather than a more profound understanding of terror. Rated: 2/4 Sep 23, 2018 Full Review Donald Clarke Irish Times Alas, The Nun is more chaotic than most of the many, many films set in The Conjuring universe. To compare it to a ghost train would be to understate the narrative cohesion that habitually governs those seaside entertainments. Rated: 2/5 Sep 18, 2018 Full Review Calum Cooper Source (Scotland) The movie isn’t so bad that it requires an exorcism, but audiences may still feel the need to repent… assuming they can remember what they’re repenting for. Rated: 2/5 Jul 14, 2024 Full Review Keith Garlington Keith & the Movies But then you get to the storytelling which slowly sucks out the film’s potential. Rated: 2.5/5 Aug 24, 2022 Full Review Desirée De Fez Fotogramas Hardy orchestrates horror with elegance and taste, reaching in some scenes an unexpected sophistication in the design, the choreography, and the editing... [Full review in Spanish] Rated: 4/5 Jul 21, 2022 Full Review Read all reviews

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Justin enjoyed this movie. great story telling. loved that farmigas daughter ggot to play a younger version of her. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/30/21 Full Review Albert W Better than the ratings would suggest... but not great. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/01/25 Full Review Ryan n i have sharted my self watching this movie, it has immpecible actors and contents, but the part of the movie that gives me a deep hatred towards this movie is the timestamp 27:50, i have shat in my chair when i saw the body fall from the tree Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 01/29/25 Full Review r96 s 'The Nun' is a let down. Based upon the glimpses we kept getting of this character in the preceding films from 'The Conjuring' universe, I was looking forward to seeing a movie about this character. Sadly, it's not a good watch. Demián Bichir, Taissa Farmiga (surname makes sense, I did think that she looked like Vera) and Jonas Bloquet aren't the worst actors to follow, in fact I didn't mind them, but their performances and their characters are equally forgettable. No-one else makes a mark onscreen. How Valak is portrayed is the issue, the close-ups really do take the creep factor away - same can be said for when the demons speak too, that village idiot line is very out of place. I do approve that The Nun moves about though, which is better than it largely staying still - à la 'Annabelle'. Longer shots and more silence would've done wonders. Six releases in, this franchise has been a rather large disappointment. Fingers crosssed the most recent four movies manage to satisfy me. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/28/25 Full Review Audience Member Slow and boring, probably time for these characters to give it up. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 01/22/25 Full Review Jason W Took a chance on a used $6 blu ray. Just jump scare after jump scare by a confusing range of different non-Nun type creatures. Hands busting through walls, coffins, glass. So much smoke everywhere, where is the smoke coming from? Constant seeing things that disappear and chihuahua growling sounds. Acting was sub-par, dialogue was horrid, no sense of urgency, sound design was abysmal, I had to turn it down and use subtitles for the talking, because the "scary" parts just about blew out the subwoofer. The look of the actual Nun was cool. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 01/15/25 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis When a young nun at a cloistered abbey in Romania takes her own life, a priest with a haunted past and a novitiate on the threshold of her final vows are sent by the Vatican to investigate. Together, they uncover the order's unholy secret. Risking not only their lives but their faith and their very souls, they confront a malevolent force in the form of a demonic nun.
Director
Corin Hardy
Producer
James Wan, Peter Safran
Screenwriter
Gary Dauberman
Distributor
Warner Bros. Pictures
Production Co
Atomic Monster, Safran Company
Rating
R (Terror|Disturbing/Bloody Images|Violence)
Genre
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Sep 7, 2018, Wide
Release Date (Streaming)
Nov 20, 2018
Box Office (Gross USA)
$117.4M
Runtime
1h 36m
Sound Mix
Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio
Scope (2.35:1)
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