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27 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 55MovielineStephanie ZacharekMovielineStephanie ZacharekSeason of the Witch is barely even a Nicolas Cage movie. He wanders through the picture, zombified.
- 50Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanThe best thing about it is Claire Foy's performance as the seething, caged is-she-a-witch?. Foy, like a Brit Kristen Stewart, has an entrancing sparkle of disdain.
- 40EmpireDavid HughesEmpireDavid HughesDoes to the medieval era what Cage's Wicker Man did to Anthony Shaffer. Hokum and not in a good way.
- 40L.A. WeeklyNick PinkertonL.A. WeeklyNick PinkertonThe makeup department's glommed-on plague pustules are fantastic, but the concession to modern technology in a badly rendered last-act CGI demon, cut and pasted from a Diablo II screen-grab, is so eminently lame as to cure all fear of hellfire.
- 40The Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttThe Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttCage supplies energy but no depth in his portrayal of a disillusioned knight. Ditto that for Perlman, who never feels comfortable in the sidekick role so he pretty much goes through the (exaggerated) motions.
- Season of the Witch is at its worst when it tries to be a straight-ahead action-adventure film. The early sequence set against the epic battles of the Crusades is almost brazenly bad with its unconvincing "300"-style special effects.
- 30SalonAndrew O'HehirSalonAndrew O'HehirOff the top of my head, I'm guessing that Season of the Witch claims a place in the top five all-time bizarre and pointless homages to art cinema.
- 25The A.V. ClubTasha RobinsonThe A.V. ClubTasha RobinsonThe film looks dispiritingly cheap and, as if in response, most of his cast seems half-committed at best, as if they're counting the moments until they can move on to a bigger picture.
- 10Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternWall Street JournalJoe MorgensternMr. Cage's knight ends up playing second banana to a digital devil. Welcome to the January dead zone.