Consumers demand choice, and industry obliges. Creamy or crunchy peanut butter; diet or regular soda; dark or milk chocolate; Budweiser or cocktails wrung out of stale urinal cakes.
In 2021, choice means enjoying your pick of nunsploitation movies: Rose Glass’ “Saint Maud,” Paul Verhoeven’s “Benedetta,” and now, last but not least, Mickey Reece’s “Agnes.” (In strict terms “Saint Maud” doesn’t qualify as nunsploitation, but it bears just enough of the niche’s hallmarks to scratch the itch if you’re in a bind.) “Agnes” occupies a somewhat unflattering spot on the December release slate, premiering on the heels of “Benedetta,” one of 2021’s best films and one of the most noteworthy pervy nun productions to come out in this century.
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