Season of the Witch

    Season of the Witch
    2011

    Synopsis

    A 14th century Crusader returns with his comrade to a homeland devastated by the Black Plague. The Church commands the two knights to transport a witch to a remote abbey, where monks will perform a ritual in hopes of ending the pestilence.

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    Cast

    • Nicolas CageBehman
    • Ron PerlmanFelson
    • Ulrich ThomsenEckhardt
    • Christopher LeeCardinal D'Ambroise
    • Fernanda DorogiGivaudon
    • Stephen GrahamHagamar
    • Rebekah KennedyPeasant Trurk Girl
    • Matt DevereSergeant in Arms
    • Robert SheehanKay
    • Claire FoyThe Girl

    Recommendations

    • 55

      Movieline

      Season of the Witch is barely even a Nicolas Cage movie. He wanders through the picture, zombified.
    • 50

      Entertainment Weekly

      The 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.
    • 40

      Empire

      Does to the medieval era what Cage's Wicker Man did to Anthony Shaffer. Hokum and not in a good way.
    • 40

      L.A. Weekly

      The 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.
    • 40

      The Hollywood Reporter

      Cage 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.
    • 30

      Los Angeles Times

      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.
    • 30

      Salon

      Off 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.
    • 30

      Variety

      Both overblown and undercooked, Season of the Witch is a fine example of a film that would've been great fun if only its creators had a sense of humor about the wild brew of absurdity they had percolating.

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