The Deliverance (2024)

	Directed by: Lee Daniels	COUNTRY USA GENRE Supernatural horror NORWEGIAN TITLE The Deliverance RUNNING TIME 112 minutes
	Produced by: Lee Daniels Todd Crites Jackson Nguyen Tucker Tooley Pamela Oas Williams
	Written by: David Coggeshall Elijah Bynum

Cast includes:
CHARACTER	ACTOR/ACTRESS	RATING
Ebony Jackson	Andra Day
Alberta Jackson	Glenn Close
Nathaniel "Nate" Jackson	Caleb McLaughlin	-
Shante Jackson	Demi Singleton	-
Reverend Bernice James	Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor	-
Cynthia Henry	Mo'Nique	-

Review

Another accomplished, brooding Glenn Close performance keeps the first part of this film watchable, even downright interesting at times. There are some effective elements of social drama at play, something about growing up on the wrong side of the tracks, the silver spoon, the racial divide, or whatever cliché you’d like to use to describe that something is not quite right in those allegedly United States. Unfortunately, the turning point and basic horror premise is both telegraphed and sadly formulaic, so that when it comes, it doesn’t hold your interest even if some of it is skilfully made.