Sydney🚀’s review published on Letterboxd:
For all the talk about Immaculate being shocking, The First Omen kind of just showed them up with the freaky shit! There are definitely signs of some studio-influenced editing tomfoolery, which was to be expected from an addition to a franchise like this and can hobble the narrative at times. Sad, but Arkasha Stevenson’s direction shines through with a heavy assist from Nell Tiger Free’s star making performance. Real ones have known how great she is since Servant. Really gorgeous movie that has the patience of a 70s horror film in the first act, maybe a little too much, but ramps up into something genuinely suspenseful that ties into the original film perfectly. It arguably even improves on the approach to the Omen concept in the midst of civil unrest. Fun! Maybe we can be done with the nun stuff for a while though.
