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The acting is great. Sophie, Kit, and Marcia Gay Harden were fantastic. Even the little kids did a good job! (Poor little Jago getting slugged in the face by Seamus. 😢)

The cinematography, setting, and coloring are delicious! As others have mentioned, the movie is very visually pleasing.

The romance was lovely! I wish Sophie and Kit's scenes had been longer (and that there had been more of them), but their scenes were great nonetheless! My favorite one: the "you're a greedy man" and pounce kiss scene. 🙂 (I also like Kit's choice, after Sophie delivers that line, to take and eat the berry she had been holding (greedy, indeed!) before kissing her.) I also like that he says "aye"--makes me think of Jon. 😍 AND I guess Jago was supposed to come off as maybe a bit creepy and obsessed...I mean, I got that a little bit. But, honestly...he mostly just seemed appealingly into Anne. I mean, if Kit Harington an attractive man paid me that kind of attention...I mean, I'm pretty sure I'd almost be ready to marry him on the spot. (Let's not dwell too much on what that might say about me. 👀)

As a Catholic, I was pleasantly surprised at how the faith was portrayed in this movie! It seems that most horror films that reference Catholicism do so in a kind of cartoonish, really distorted (and irreverent) way. But this movie handled it fine. (I mean, Morwen definitely has a distorted view of the faith, which she passes on to Anne to some extent; and the film doesn't shy away from some of the dark realities that are just part of the story of humanity, including among people of faith--like the Franciscan father who tries to sell them a supposed relic and Anne's own struggle with her faith/morality, her love for Jago, and the duty she feels she owes to Morwen. But, overall, yeah--I'll take it!) I also really loved the scene when she was praying to the Blessed Mother. 🥹 Very sweet and very relatable. It was also just fun to follow along with prayers, hymns, and psalms that I'm familiar with!

I generally do not like horror movies. I just don't enjoy being scared. 😨 So I was pleasantly surprised that this movie really wasn't very scary at all! And, despite the depictions of violence, I think they kept away from anything too gory, which I appreciate!

I agree with others who have expressed some disappointment with the ending. It didn't feel like the story was resolved (or as if anything had even really happened during the course of the film--no real plot, I guess, or bad guy to overcome or...something to achieve). But I was glad that Anne and Jago were still alive at the end (and I also choose to believe that they reconciled and married and had lots of fat babies.) And I even liked that Morwen had a sort of redemption at the end!