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On April 13, 2023, Mark Dujsik from Mark Reviews Movies gave Nefarious 1.5/4 and wrote "[T]he storytelling ... [is] sacrificed at the altar of messaging."
On April 13, 2023, Bill Goodykoontz from Arizona Republic gave Nefarious 2/5 and wrote "Subtlety is not the film’s strong point. Neither is casting." On April 14, 2023, Mike McGranaghan from Aisle Seat gave Nefarious 0.5/4 and wrote "Nefarious builds to a howler of a climax that delivers exactly what you’d anticipate from the makers of God’s Not Dead, just in an even more preposterous way. The big scene would be perfect for an Airplane!-style spoof of evangelical-themed films." On April 15, 2023, Richard Propes from TheIndependentCritic.com gave Nefarious 1.0/4.0 and wrote "While there are moments of intensity in Nefarious, there isn't a moment in the film that feels like cinematic horror unless you're talking about one of those evangelical haunted houses where demons pop out of the walls to warn of the evils of the world." On April 15, 2023, Jeffrey M. Anderson from Common Sense Media gave Nefarious 2/5 and wrote "Well-acted and with decent production values, this faith-based thriller unfortunately gets stuck in its two-person back-and-forth sermoning, making it all too obvious what the outcome will be." On April 16, 2023, Roger Moore from Movie Nation gave Nefarious 1/4 and wrote "The only thing not covered in this Christo-fascist manifesto of a movie is 'guns.' " On April 18, 2023, Dennis Schwartz from Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews gave Nefarious a D and wrote "The film's heavy-handed and bogus message tells us that Hollywood is immoral because it acts to corrupt its viewer's minds." On April 20, 2023, Josh Goller from Spectrum Culture gave Nefarious 1.25/5 and wrote "If you like your demons on the preachy side, then you may enjoy [this movie]. The rest of us will find [it]...tedious, heavy-handed and indoctrinating." On April 22, 2023, Cody Leach from Cody Leach (YouTube) gave Nefarious 1.5/5 and wrote "Nefarious advertises itself as a possession thriller but pulls a bait & switch to deliver a Christian and Conservative propaganda piece. Flanery does his best to elevate what is otherwise a 90 minute sermon on abortion, euthanasia, and the death penalty." On April 23, 2023, Carla Hay from Culture Mix wrote "Nefarious has been inaccurately described as a horror movie. It's a poorly made psychological drama about a death row inmate, with no real scares and too much over-acting. As this dull movie drones on, it becomes preachy propaganda for right-wing beliefs." On June 19, 2023, Tyler Smith from Battleship Pretension wrote "After kicking things off with a pretty solid fake out, the film settles into a repetitive rhythm that quickly becomes tiresome." On November 9, 2023, Erick Estrada from Cinegarage wrote "A psychological thriller that gets bogged down in its own game." On November 10, 2023, Juan Jose Cruz from Cine Premiere gave Nefarious 2.5/5 and wrote "Although it has a strong beginning and a great premise, the truly terrifying part is watching this movie go off the rails." On November 30, 2023, Paula Vázquez Prieto from La Nación (Argentina) gave Nefarious 1/5 and wrote "A prefabricated plot with a predictable conclusion, cardboard characters, and an aesthetic devoid of that imagery with which Bergman dressed his stories about the dark contours of belief." |