Overview
- Netflix’s limited theatrical rollout began this week to qualify for awards, with streaming set for December 12 and potential continued big‑screen play if theaters choose.
- Access is selective as AMC Theatres is not booking the film, and Netflix has published a finder tool to locate participating cinemas.
- Critics report broadly positive reactions, with some calling it the series’ best and early aggregator scores cited around 95% on Rotten Tomatoes.
- Set at a small upstate New York parish, the story centers on an ‘impossible’ locked‑room killing and leans into Gothic, horror‑adjacent atmosphere and questions of faith and power.
- Reviews note that Benoit Blanc arrives well into the film, with Josh O’Connor’s Father Jud serving as the emotional anchor early on alongside an ensemble including Josh Brolin, Glenn Close, Kerry Washington, Jeremy Renner, Andrew Scott, Cailee Spaeny, Daryl McCormack, Thomas Haden Church and Mila Kunis.