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The Ritual
2025 98 min United States of America 18+
★4.6
Horror, Drama, Thriller
Director: David Midell
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Description
Two priests, one in crisis with his faith and the other confronting a turbulent past, must overcome their differences to perform a risky exorcism.
US Gross:
$527,118
Worldwide:
$3.2M
Starring
Al Pacino
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Dan Stevens
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Ashley Greene
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Key opinion
The Ritual is widely regarded as a derivative, cliché-heavy exorcism film that relies on standard genre tropes while offering little narrative innovation. Although Al Pacino's performance is frequently praised as a stabilizing force, the film suffers from thin character development and a polarizing visual style that divides critics on whether it achieves a grounded, documentary-like realism or an intrusive, shaky-cam aesthetic.
| Acting | Al Pacino provides a nuanced and commanding performance that elevates the material above typical genre fare. | |
| Screenplay | The narrative relies heavily on exhausted exorcism tropes and predictable clichés, lacking any significant originality. | |
| Cinematography | The film attempts a grounded, 1930s-inspired realism, but for many viewers, the shaky camera work is distracting and immersion-breaking. | |
| Theme | Character arcs, particularly those of the priests and the victim, are underdeveloped and lack the depth necessary to create a compelling psychological drama. |