{"id":378090,"date":"2021-12-08T09:56:08","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T06:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-agnes-review-a-devilishly-conflicted-tale-of-possession-and-doubt\/"},"modified":"2021-12-08T09:56:08","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T06:56:08","slug":"watch-agnes-review-a-devilishly-conflicted-tale-of-possession-and-doubt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-agnes-review-a-devilishly-conflicted-tale-of-possession-and-doubt\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch &#8216;Agnes&#8217; Review: A Devilishly Conflicted Tale of Possession and Doubt"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3cc62f1bfb0\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3cc62f1bfb0\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-agnes-review-a-devilishly-conflicted-tale-of-possession-and-doubt\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Agnes_Review_A_Devilishly_Conflicted_Tale_of_Possession_and_Doubt%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Agnes&#8217; Review: A Devilishly Conflicted Tale of Possession and Doubt&#8221;<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-agnes-review-a-devilishly-conflicted-tale-of-possession-and-doubt\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Agnes_Review_A_Devilishly_Conflicted_Tale_of_Possession_and_Doubt%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;&#8216;Agnes&#8217; Review: A Devilishly Conflicted Tale of Possession and Doubt&#8221;<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-agnes-review-a-devilishly-conflicted-tale-of-possession-and-doubt\/#optional_screen_reader\" >optional screen reader<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-agnes-review-a-devilishly-conflicted-tale-of-possession-and-doubt\/#Read_More_About\" >Read More About:<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Agnes_Review_A_Devilishly_Conflicted_Tale_of_Possession_and_Doubt%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Agnes&#8217; Review: A Devilishly Conflicted Tale of Possession and Doubt&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Agnes_Review_A_Devilishly_Conflicted_Tale_of_Possession_and_Doubt%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;&#8216;Agnes&#8217; Review: A Devilishly Conflicted Tale of Possession and Doubt&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n                        Those uncertain just how seriously Paul Verhoeven intended us to take the alternately earnest and lurid nunsploitation of \u201cBenedetta\u201d will be even more flummoxed by Mickey Reece\u2019s \u201cAgnes.\u201d The prolific, idiosyncratic Oklahoma auteur\u2019s latest is half exorcism thriller, half character drama of lost faith. But those two sharply differentiated parts add up to much less than a coherent whole, in addition to being too underdeveloped and tonally wobbly to satisfy in themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike the squirrelly genre-bender that was the director\u2019s last feature, \u201cClimate of the Hunter,\u201d conceptually near-random \u201cAgnes\u201d does not find its own singular terms to work within. Viewers lured in by the horror-movie marketing will be particularly irked by this bait-and-switch oddity, which Magnet releases to limited U.S. theaters and VOD on Dec. 10.<\/p>\n<p>When a young nun suddenly begins ranting obscenities in a \u201cdemonic\u201d voice at a Carmelite convent, the bishop informs Father Donaghue (Ben Hall) that he must attend to the situation. He\u2019s been trained for such possession cases but is most reluctant to go, as he doesn\u2019t \u201creally believe in this medieval woo-woo\u201d anymore, assuming instead that the woman is simply acting out a delusional fantasy. Nonetheless, he grudgingly consents, taking along as assistant the much less jaded recent seminary graduate Benjamin (Jake Horowitz). The latter is shocked to learn his erstwhile mentor got the assignment largely so the diocese could get rid of him \u2014 he\u2019s been accused of sexual misconduct and has not denied it.<\/p>\n<p>Father D.\u2019s caustic attitude and the fat-cat caricaturing of his superiors suggests \u201cAgnes\u201d will be less a horror film than a sendup. That notion is furthered by the depiction of the convent, where variously bitchy and lecherous sisters seem to inhabit a mashup of \u201cNunsense\u201d and \u201cThe Little Hours.\u201d Yet the plight of the title character (Hayley McFarland) is presented pretty straightforwardly: She\u2019s an <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>arent innocent whom some evil spirit has turned into a foulmouthed, violent gremlin. When Donaghue\u2019s nose is nearly bitten off in one encounter, he calls for backup in the form of excommunicated celebrity exorcist Henry Black (Chris Browning). But that attempted intervention doesn\u2019t go well either.<\/p>\n<p>Roughly at the film\u2019s midpoint, this in-progress crisis is abandoned \u2014 its resolution never related \u2014 and we leap forward to its aftermath. Now the focus is on Mary (Molly C. Quinn), a novice nun who was Agnes\u2019 friend, and who\u2019s since abandoned the vocation. She\u2019s making an awkward reentry to secular life, working a crap big-box-store job for a creepy boss (Chris Sullivan), living in a dinky apartment with an equally untrustworthy landlord. She is visited by people from her old life (including Benjamin), who encourage a return to the fold. But she\u2019s lost the requisite faith. Oddly, the only thing that seems to comfort her is the company of a stand-up comic (Sean Gunn as Paul Satchimo) she pursues after wandering into his gig.<\/p>\n<p>For all Mary\u2019s (and the Father Karras-like Donaghue\u2019s) verbalized doubt, it\u2019s difficult to suss whether \u201cAgnes\u201d takes religious belief seriously at all \u2014 let alone if it thinks demonic possession is an actual thing. Quinn is convincing as a person spiritually adrift, but the movie doesn\u2019t make enough of the disillusioning secret she carries, and undercuts all of the above with the in-jokey character of the unfunny co<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>n. Using the veteran priest\u2019s apparent pederasty as a kind of throwaway gag further muddies the waters here. Whatever Reece and sometime collaborator John Selvidge\u2019s script is aiming for, it ultimately finds no particular point that makes sense of its wayward peculiarities for the viewer \u2014 or even makes their disharmony seem a deliberate provocation.<\/p>\n<p>Having made a remarkable 20 features just in the past decade, the director has by now honed an impressive dexterity with modest resources. Samuel Calvin\u2019s widescreen photography, Nicholas Poss\u2019 diverse original score and the assured (if sometimes tonally clashing) performances are all a cut above for a regional indie. But quirkiness as an end in itself can be treacherous, and not every left-field idea merits realization. Despite a polished surface, \u201cAgnes\u201d winds up feeling like an ungainly home craft project that maybe should have been taken apart and reshaped into some entirely different, more purposefully cohesive form.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-tags \/\/ a-children-icon-bullet lrv-u-font-family-primary u-letter-spacing-012 lrv-u-line-height-large lrv-u-color-brand-primary\">\n<h2 id=\"optional-screen-reader\" class=\"lrv-a-screen-reader-only\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"optional_screen_reader\"><\/span>\n        optional screen reader  <span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<nav class=\"o-nav  o-nav lrv-u-border-b-1 u-border-color-brand-secondary-40 lrv-u-border-t-1 lrv-u-text-align-center lrv-u-padding-b-025 u-padding-t-050@desktop u-padding-t-050@tablet u-padding-t-050@mobile-max lrv-u-margin-t-2 lrv-u-margin-b-2\" data-dropdown=\"\">\n<h4 id=\"\" class=\"o-nav__title lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-font-family-secondary o-nav__title a-content-ignore u-line-height-140 u-letter-spacing-0002\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Read_More_About\"><\/span>Read More About:<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<\/nav>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n  !function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n    if (f.fbq) return;\n    n = f.fbq = function() {\n      n.callMethod ?\n          n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments);\n    };\n    if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n    n.push = n;\n    n.loaded = !0;\n    n.version = '2.0';\n    n.queue = [];\n    t = b.createElement(e);\n    t.async = !0;\n    t.src = v;\n    s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s);\n  }(window, document, 'script',\n      'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('init', '586935388485447');\n  fbq('init', '315552255725686');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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