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The Blackcoat's Daughter

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Canada, United States · 2017
Rated R · 1h 33m
Director Oz Perkins
Starring Emma Roberts, Kiernan Shipka, Lucy Boynton, James Remar
Genre Horror, Thriller

Kat and Rose are left stranded at their secluded boarding school over winter break. Meanwhile, Joan is a troubled young woman determined to get to the school as fast as she can. As Joan gets closer, the girls are cornered by a mysterious evil force that haunts them with progressively horrifying visions.

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RogerEbert.com by

In spite of some compelling performances and a consistent mood, the film fails to ground any of these aesthetic flourishes in story or emotion.

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The A.V. Club by A.A. Dowd

The Blackcoat’s Daughter is a clammy hand on the back of the neck, a chill running down the spine, a shot of ice water straight to the veins. Every moment, almost every shot, has been carefully calibrated to stand hairs on end.

63

Slant Magazine by Chuck Bowen

Oz Perkins exhibits a committed understanding of the cinematic value of silence and of vastly underpopulated compositions.

67

IndieWire by Eric Kohn

The root of evil in The Blackcoat’s Daughter isn’t particularly original or deep, but the movie’s twisty plot and eerie atmosphere makes it deeply unsettling anyway.

80

Variety by Joe Leydon

In addition to everything else he does right in February, Perkins plays fair: When you replay the movie in your mind after the final fadeout, you realize that every twist was dutifully presaged, and the final reveal was hidden in plain sight all along.

90

The Hollywood Reporter by Leslie Felperin

As with so many of the best mystery-horror films, the optimum way to enjoy a first viewing of this is try to remain as ignorant as possible about what happens. That said, it also brims with tiny, blink-and-you'll-miss-them details that will repay repeat viewings.

75

The Film Stage by Michael Snydel

A stylish exercise in dread, teasing out its slow-drip horrors with precision, and building a deliriously evil presence that hovers along the fringes.

50

Movie Nation by Roger Moore

The Blackcoat’s Daughter — an illusion to a priest’s cassock? — never amounts to much more than its tone, the dread Perkins summons up with morose faces, shadows and music.

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