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By Barry Hertz (792) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 29 Nov 2021

While Benedetta the woman may have been touched by Heaven or cursed from Hell or neither, Benedetta the film is undoubtedly a miracle…

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By Siddhant Adlakha (174) for IGN (1,013) on 27 Sep 2021

Benedetta is led by a wildly fun performance from Virginie Efira as a real-life 17th century lesbian nun…

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By Natalia Keogan (119) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 21 Sep 2021

The carnal Catholicism which permeates the film is at this point to be expected from the 83-year-old Dutch filmmaker—but equally so is the…

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By Jason Gorber (520) for Slashfilm (971) on 13 Jul 2021

This is a tonally rich, libidinously powerful, and psychologically complex tale told by a master filmmaker equally at ease with European art-film…

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By Stephen Garrett (65) for Observer (1,042) on 13 Jul 2021

The Danish director of Total Recall, Basic Instinct, Showgirls and Starship Troopers has never been one for subtlety, but this queer thriller…

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By Richard Lawson (539) for Vanity Fair (761) on 13 Jul 2021

Benedetta is full of surprising tones shrewdly introduced by Verhoeven, who keeps us leaning forward to suss out just what his film is trying…

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By Dave Calhoun (583) for Time Out (7,510) on 12 Jul 2021

Treat Benedetta as a pile-up of shallow pleasures undercut with a sardonic wink and some fairly obvious comments on power and corruption, and…

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By Nicholas Barber (220) for BBC (137) on 10 Jul 2021

Far from being a steamy nun-sploitation thriller about women with bad habits – well, it's partly that, to be honest – Benedetta is a substantial,…

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By Rory O'connor (154) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 10 Jul 2021

Verhoeven, as always, is more interested in playing games and is always at his best when needling an audience’s ideas of good taste…

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By Ben Croll (93) for TheWrap (3,203) on 09 Jul 2021

You can’t call a film as lurid and alive as Benedetta a closing statement, but there is something valedictory about the erotic religious…

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By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 09 Jul 2021

If Benedetta is a joke that Verhoeven is in on, and that is designed to play to those in on it too, we can at least be thankful that it’s…

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By Tim Robey (1,578) for The Telegraph (1,120) on 09 Jul 2021

As a statement, Benedetta won’t win any awards for coherence, but there’s just Too Much Verhoeven going on here for sensation hunters ever…

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By Jordan Mintzer (201) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 09 Jul 2021

We may never know if Benedetta was sincere about her visions in the end, just as it’s impossible to judge how sincere Verhoeven is when he’s…

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By Pat Brown (171) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 09 Jul 2021

Throughout Benedetta, Paul Verhoeven builds up a heady, campy mix of religious imagery, corporeal abjectness, and masochism…

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By David Ehrlich (1,229) for IndieWire (3,631) on 09 Jul 2021

Despite a handful of headline-worthy moments and a generally blasphemous — or perhaps just humanistic…

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By Lee Marshall (157) for Screen Daily (1,021) on 09 Jul 2021

It’s the tone that’s off here, as it is throughout a film which seems to wink at what it perhaps wants us to see as irony – its soft…

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By Peter Debruge (1,557) for Variety (12,700) on 09 Jul 2021

With its haters-be-damned approach to all things carnal, Benedetta is intended to arouse, thereby satisfying the most basic definition of pornography,…

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By Peter Bradshaw (3,667) for The Guardian (2,969) on 09 Jul 2021

Verhoeven just presents us with the raunchiness, using the religiosity as set dressing…

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