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By Kim Newman (791) for Empire Magazine (3,326) on 05 Jun 2014

A masterclass in unsettling chills from West, lit up by another strong Seimetz turn…

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By Blake Crane (142) for Film Racket (579) on 04 Jun 2014

An exploitative packaging of a real-life horror…

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By Manohla Dargis (1,909) for New York Times (5,786) on 04 Jun 2014

Mr…

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By Joe Neumaier (1,294) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 04 Jun 2014

This sometimes-taut little thriller is sullied by its unnecessary masquerade as a documentary presented by HBO’s gonzo news show “Vice.”…

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By William Bibbiani (788) for CraveOnline (813) on 04 Jun 2014

It's an intelligent, even challenging work, although not quite as crisp and frightening as The House of the Devil…

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By David Jenkins (910) for Little White Lies (3,136) on 04 Jun 2014

One of America's most exciting young directors delivers half of a great movie with this investigation into religious cults…

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By Greg Klymkiw (20) for Electric Sheep (203) on 04 Jun 2014

All in all, The Sacrament is a terrific little thriller and I'm looking forward to seeing it again…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for Tribune News Service (1,102) on 03 Jun 2014

Pointlessly fictionalized, to make this version of the Jonestown mass suicide into a horror film. It doesn't come off…

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By Keith Uhlich (870) for Time Out (7,510) on 02 Jun 2014

Only Jones seems most at home, striking just the right note of low-key malevolence. You’d follow him anywhere — maybe even into a better movie…

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By Rob Staeger (71) for Village Voice (8,525) on 02 Jun 2014

Restaging the 1978 Jonestown massacre for a present-day suspense movie is by most definitions tasteless, although The Sacrament infuses the…

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By Matt Glasby (349) for Total Film (3,532) on 01 Jun 2014

The performances are excellent, the atmosphere tense, but West is too caught up in the facts to enlighten us further…

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By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 31 May 2014

With The Sacrament, director Ti West has bitten off more of a premise than his classically modest barebones approach to horror movies can presently…

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By Harvey S. Karten (2,210) for Compuserve (1,948) on 30 May 2014

Chilling tale of brainwashing that summons up the Jonestown Massacre…

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By Dustin Putman (2,479) for TheFilmFile.com (2,314) on 08 May 2014

The Sacrament is strong stuff, a concise, provocative exhibition of how the words of one individual can pull such an influentially harmful…

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By Scott Tobias (1,684) for The Dissolve (1,478) on 04 May 2014

Its skillful execution of a bad idea doesn’t make the bad idea any better; in fact, the scrupulousness with which West and his crew evoke…

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By Fr. Chris Carpenter (308) for Movie Dearest (271) on 02 May 2014

Those who watch (this film) expecting a supernatural element in keeping with (the director's) previous films will be disappointed, but the…

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By Felix Vasquez Jr. (1,949) for Cinema Crazed (1,907) on 01 May 2014

Though it's a horror film first and foremost, it's also a very volatile and relevant cautionary tale that needs to be seen…

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By Henry Northmore (46) for The List (2,018) on 04 Mar 2014

An interesting film that attempts to tackle some intriguing ideas but unfortunately doesn't offer anything new…

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By Anton Bitel (1,340) for Grolsch Film Works (64) on 28 Feb 2014

Goes all Cannibal Holocaust on its rapidly evolving situation, leaving us to wonder how much the presence of the media has contributed to the…

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By Rob Hunter (276) for Film School Rejects (1,198) on 01 Oct 2013

The Sacrament is worth a watch for fans of the director and cast, but its lack of purpose or anything to say limits its staying power dramatically…

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