The Ritual
You must have faith.
Two priests, one in crisis with his faith and the other confronting a turbulent past, must overcome their differences to perform a risky exorcism.
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5.9
266 reviewsRuntime: 98 min.
Budget: N/A
Revenue: $3,195,869
Release Date: 2025-04-18
Director(s): David Midell
Production: Cinemachineshop, Redbird Entertainment, Andrew Stevens Entertainment, MetaFilms, Baweja Studios, BondIt Media Capital, Isro Productions, IFeelYouFilms, LB Entertainment, Jeff Rice Films, Eyevox, XYZ Films
Languages: English
IMDB: tt32194932
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CinemaSerf★ 5/106/4/2025
I’m guessing that Russell Crowe was busy for this latest exercise in priestly exorcism so an hardly recognisable Al Pacino decided to have a go. He is a Capetian father drafted in to help the reluctant Fr. Joseph (Dan Stevens) with a particularly difficult task. Fr. Theophilus must help rid the poor young Emma (Abigail Cowen) of an unwanted bodily guest. His methods do not impress the rather naive young father, nor the sisters in attendance as she increasingly resorts to involuntary bleeding, foul language, violent outbursts and even the usual hanging upside down from the ceiling lamp trick whilst under relentless assault from the repetitious bible verses being read across what I counted are at least seven of those ritual attempts at expulsion. Sound familiar? Well that’s because it is. Aside from Pacino turning in a slightly different style of performance from his norm, the rest of this hasn’t an original bone in it’s body. Indeed, its only claim to fame appears to be that it is based on the original, almost century old, transcriptions from Fr. Joseph of events that are really supposed to have happened but we’ve seen this all predictably play out so many times before that even the traditional collapsible bed doesn’t turn an head - spiritual or metaphysically. The one element that does provoke a little interest is, perhaps, the clear indication that Catholicism in the 1920s was riddled with incantations, superstitions and a degree of symbolism that probably hadn’t changed since much since there was a Borgia on the throne of St. Peter. This might work on the telly at Halloween of you’re full of Grappa, but as a cinema experience it is disappointing and entirely forgettable, sorry.
Dean★ 6/107/5/2025
I know we have seen a lot of exorcism movies which are copies of copies of copies, however this one wasn't that bad copy, lol. I think it was actually pretty decent. Not a best exorism movie, but not bad either.