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Apparition, The (12A)

Drama

A journalist is sent by the Vatican to investigate a young girl claiming to be visited by the Virgin Mary. Read more …


The critical consensus

Unfortunately, much of the runtime is occupied by a standard investigation whose ambiguity is as appropriate as it is frustrating, and its ill-timed release means that The Apparition arrives in cinemas too soon after First Reformed, a film which grapples with many of the same ideas in a more compelling manner.

***(*)(*)Iana Murray, The Skinny, 31/07/2018

A laconic religious procedural that maybe has too many answers.

***(*)(*)David Jenkins, Little White Lies, 01/08/2018

This long film doesn’t quite succeed in being as powerful or as moving as Giannoli might have wished, due to an uncertainty about how great a role rational scepticism has to play, but it has a satisfying ending that might have pleased the veteran screenwriter and storyteller Jean-Claude Carrière.

***(*)(*)Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian, 03/08/2018

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