The Nun - Movie Review

Starring Demian Bichir, Taissa Farmiga, Jonas Bloquet, Ingrid Bisu, Charlotte Hope and Bonnie Aarons.
Written by Gary Dauberman & James Wan.
Directed by Corin Hardy.

★½

The Conjuring-verse is hit or miss. This is a miss.

The "Nun" in The Conjuring 2 was one of its more scary elements. Now she gets her own origin story. Unfortunately this movie doesn't have much imagination beyond keeping everything dark and having stuff jump out and go "ROWR!" every once in a while.

The trailer was very effective. The trailer also featured the best scare in the movie.

Predator #1, Simple Favor #3 at box office

For the weekend of September 14-16, 2018, The Predator was #1, but it came in much lower than it was tracking. It had to have been hurt by bad reviews, plus no real star to hook audiences with.

Of the other new releases, A Simple Favor did well, considering. Marketing had the unenviable task of publicizing a movie that combines comedic elements with a mystery thriller, and it also needs to not give any of the significant twists away. White Boy Rick, meanwhile, continues to show that Matthew McConaughey's star power is pretty diminished.

The Nun had a big drop-off but that was to be expected. It'll easily hit $100 million next week and still has potential to be the highest grosser in the Conjuring universe.

September 21
THE HOUSE WITH A CLOCK IN ITS WALLS with Jack Black and Cate Blanchett.
LIFE ITSELF with Oscar Isaac, Olivia Wilde, Annette Bening and Antonio Banderas.
FAHRENHEIT 11/9 with Michael Moore.