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By Brian Tallerico (1,600) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 03 Dec 2021

There are times when Verhoeven is throwing so many ideas into his purposefully overcrowded screenplay that it starts to feel unfocused, like…

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By Bilge Ebiri (1,050) for New York Magazine (Vulture) (3,519) on 03 Dec 2021

In some ways, it encapsulates the director’s best and worst instincts…

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By Habibiehakim (321) on 03 Dec 2021

Benedetta is a story that might already sounds familiar, but it's not, it's more than just a story, it's a fascinating and powerful story that…

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By Katie Rife (451) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 02 Dec 2021

Belgian movie star Virginie Efira plays the title character with complete conviction, whether she’s kneeling in awe before the Virgin Mary…

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By Jenny Nulf (101) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 02 Dec 2021

There is a raw sexiness to Benedetta that’s deeply engaging and thrilling…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for Movie Nation (3,875) on 02 Dec 2021

Benedetta is a gripping, graphic and shockingly moving film biography…

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By Mark Kennedy (184) for The Associated Press (882) on 01 Dec 2021

There is perhaps an intriguing movie here somewhere — “Who decides what is God’s will…

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By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 30 Nov 2021

Benedetta continues Verhoeven’s strong run with as good a movie as he’s ever made…

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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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