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On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 86% of 212 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 7.5/10. The website's consensus reads: "Illuminated by Amanda Seyfried's sterling performance, The Testament of Ann Lee accepts The Shakers' founder on her own terms and reaches its own rhapsodic highs as a result." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 80 out of 100, based on 43 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews. In his five-star review for The Irish Times, Donald Clarke described the film as "the stuff of masterpieces" and praised Fastvold for "creating a convincing version of Lancashire torn between industrial modernity…
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60 of 243 · most liked firstAmanda Seyfried's new film, "The Testament of Ann Lee" opens Christmas Day (2025).
neutral · AI labelView post →Considering the Walt Disney Corporation owns the rights to both Princess Elsa (Frozen) and Ann Lee (The Testament of Ann Lee), they should let me write the ultimate "possibly gay, possibly ace, definitely queer" team-up movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →Amanda Seyfried tells us how she had to expand her vocal abilities for ‘THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE’ “We worked with a bunch of improvisational singers, some of them are actually in the movie, who use their voice to vocalize in ways that you’ve never heard.”
neutral · AI labelView post →My children’s reviews do so well on ScreenCrush I’m promoting them to full-time film critics. Coming up tomorrow: My eight year old reviews Marty Supreme. Next week: The ten year old tackles The Testament of Ann Lee.
neutral · AI labelView post →THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE (2025) Streaming: March 31, 2026 Hulu #TheTestamentOfAnnLee whentostream.com/the-testamen...
neutral · AI labelView post →The Testament of Ann Lee is definitely in the insane girl film canon
positive · AI labelView post →A 70mm film reel in the Projection Booth is music to our ears🎶 THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE is playing all week at the Music Box, presented in 70mm! Showtimes & Ticket Info: musicboxtheatre.com/films-and-ev...
neutral · AI labelView post →first teaser for The Testament of Ann Lee great movie
positive · AI labelView post →Prediction: As more people see THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE, the fact that this film got completely blanked by Oscars voters in crafts categories will be increasingly recognized as the egregious oversight that it is
positive · AI labelView post →#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched The Testament of Ann Lee, a lot more accessible and straightforward than I expected, Patton Oswald as a football fan who gets beat up by his NFL hero, a Martin Scorsese “short film” I hadn’t seen uncut and Lizzie Borden’s sci-fi about a failed socialist revolution
neutral · AI labelView post →Finally watched If I Had Legs I'd Kick You, and between that and The Testament of Ann Lee, I'm really despairing over female directors making brilliant and difficult movies about the female experience that few seem to care about. If I Had Legs was like the least promoted, hardest to see A24 film.
neutral · AI labelView post →It's got a pretty limited release understandably, but I thought the Testament of Ann Lee was a really extraordinary film. One of the most inventive and interesting films about religion I've seen
positive · AI labelView post →Favorite First Watches of April UNDERGROUND (1995) COHERENCE (2013) THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE (2025) THE TROJAN WOMEN (1971) And with one more spot, CHRONICLE OF THE YEARS OF FIRE (1975). #filmsky 📽
neutral · AI labelView post →The fall festival movie I have been most wowed by so far is The Testament of Ann Lee, which is an ecstatic experience.
positive · AI labelView post →A 70MM film reel for THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE🎶🎞️ Come see it while you can! It's your *Last Week* to see our 70MM Presentation of THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE, screening through Wednesday February 4th. Get Tickets Now: musicboxtheatre.com/films-and-ev...
neutral · AI labelView post →#NowWatching THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE (2025). Director: Mona Fastvold. Amanda Seyfried, Lewis Pullman. Tuneful biopic about founder of Shaker religious movement. I'll admit, if disciple Pullman showed up, sang me a song, & built me functional furniture...I'd be converted. #filmsky 📽
positive · AI labelView post →The husband and I were finally able to see The Testament of Ann Lee tonight, a movie I’ve been dying to see for several months now. It is, quite simply, one of my top three movies of all time. If you’re interested in Shakerism and women’s religious history, give this a watch. It is beautifully done.
positive · AI labelView post →THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE (2025) Streaming: March 10, 2026 VOD/Digital (Apple, Amazon, Fandango at Home, etc.) #TheTestamentOfAnnLee whentostream.com/the-testamen...
neutral · AI labelView post →I just saw the Testament of Ann Lee and it was in many ways a perfect film for me (including the surprise on screen singing of a dear friend). The audience response at parts was completely heartbreakin, though, because of the lack of historical empathy
positive · AI labelView post →Now available on Hulu, Mona Fastvold’s THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE remains one of those works that deserves your attention not because it was entirely and egregiously snubbed by the Oscars, but because it's a damn good film with a captivating performance by Amanda Seyfried that's one for the ages 📽️
positive · AI labelView post →Watched The Testament of Ann Lee. At the end of the film, a bit of text says she had 6000 followers at her peak. My podcast has about 7000 weekly listeners. Am I a minor religious figure?
neutral · AI labelView post →THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE 📽️ is both a religious movie and a dance movie, with an unusually good depiction of how the human body moves through the world, and it hangs on an extraordinary performance from Amanda Seyfried as someone righteous but not insufferable movieswetextedabout.com/the-testamen...
positive · AI labelView post →“Not my headline” is a common refrain of journalists on social media, but in the case of my THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE review, the headline is mine, and I’m sorry. variety.com/2025/film/ne...
neutral · AI labelView post →THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE is one of the year’s best movies— folk horror without the horror, an extravagant and sensuous musical about austerity and celibacy. Read my review in @cambridgeday.com— catch it on 70mm at @thecoolidge.bsky.social or @somervilletheatre.bsky.social!
positive · AI labelView post →Having written about religious radicalism, I was keen to see the film *The Testament of Ann Lee*, about the charismatic leader & the Shaker movement in the 18c. The film bends the history a bit but it evokes the subject and the times powerfully. Highly recommended. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zK_...
positive · AI labelView post →making my print debut (!) in @lwlies.com with a dream commission – talking to one of my fav musicians daniel blumberg about THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE! we spoke about adapting shaker hymns, his process of gathering voices to make up the cacophony we hear in the film, and so much more
neutral · AI labelView post →wrote about 'The Testament of Ann Lee', religious music, suffering, evangelism, every prestige film from 2025 having crying babies in it, licking a church pew, getting drunk and running around nude in the Czech Republic... www.ienjoymusic.net/the-testamen...
neutral · AI labelView post →The Testament of Ann Lee expands into more theatres today (including on 70mm in Toronto), and i cant recommend it more highly a great film about religion, art, feminism, utopianism, history, movement, the body, and righteousness
positive · AI labelView post →Really enjoyed “The Testament of Ann Lee”, a film with a rhythmic strumming pulse about belief and vision and power that makes a fitting companion to “The Brutalist.” Amanda Seyfried is mesmerising in it.
positive · AI labelView post →saw The Testament of Ann Lee on 70mm went to a Toronto Symphony Orchestra concert watched the s1 finale of The Traitors UK about to put on DaCosta's Hedda movie having a good day
neutral · AI labelView post →Amanda Seyfried took her style in an unexpected direction for the #TIFF premiere of #TheTestamentofAnnLee. Is she IN or OUT? tomandlorenzo.com/2025/09/toro...
neutral · AI labelView post →The Testament of Ann Lee, wow that’s like a real movie with human emotions and living characters
positive · AI labelView post →#NowWatching 📽️ - The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) Dir. Mona Fastvold PLUS it's free small popcorn day at Cineplex!
neutral · AI labelView post →[me, workshopping my new character, “Sarcastic Film Critic Who Is Also a Scholar of American Religious History,” reviewing THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE]: “I guess the Fifth Great Awakening will be what happens at the end for everyone who sits through this movie!”
negative · AI labelView post →That was a whole lot of movie, haha. Up next, hopefully just as much with THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE!
neutral · AI labelView post →So lucky to catch The Testament of Ann Lee in 70mm at the Irish Film Institute, amazing watch for any fans of female mystics and Amanda Seyfried serves incredible Margery Kempe energy! 🙏🎬
positive · AI labelView post →Send Help, The Testament of Ann Lee. We just need Lacey Chabert to release an unhinged new film to complete the Mean Girls Unleashed collection
neutral · AI labelView post →"A movie that takes big chances in a culture that, most days, seems allergic to them" -- TIME THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE is Now Playing at the Music Box, presented in 70mm! Get Tickets Now: musicboxtheatre.com/films-and-ev...
neutral · AI labelView post →For my last New Yorker piece of the year, I visited the Shaker room at the Met with the director Mona Fastvold, whose film "The Testament of Ann Lee" opens on Christmas Day and is absolutely weird and wonderful. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
neutral · AI labelView post →Watching The Testament of Ann Lee Me - wow for a "religious" movie i kind of like this @powerpoofbear.bsky.social : so her boobs are as wonky as her eyes...
positive · AI labelView post →Style File: Amanda Seyfried came to the Berlin International Film Festival to promote #TheTestamentofAnnLee and also to wear two bad dresses that she evidently didn't want to wear tomandlorenzo.com/2026/02/berl...
neutral · AI labelView post →Thanks for the shout-out @darrenmooney.bsky.social ! 😍 Tickets to our 70mm screenings of THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE are on sale now 🎟👉 ifi.ie/film/the-tes...
neutral · AI labelView post →THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE opens today. It's wild! @amuredda.bsky.social reviewed it at TIFF. filmfreakcentral.net/2025/09/tiff...
neutral · AI labelView post →Now reading. Rare non-fiction book for me, but I was so fascinated by The Testament of Ann Lee film, I wanted to find out more. Thanks to @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social for bringing this to my attention 📕 ✝️ #wholelottashakinggoingon
neutral · AI labelView post →y'know, The Testament of Ann Lee is an extraordinary film i loved it at TIFF, but even then i'd underrated it, just the finest piece of filmmaking, and it's mad that Seyfried isn't a lock for Best Actress
positive · AI labelView post →I might need to ramp up my movie watching since I'm basically doing catch-up for the rest of the year. Anyway happy #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched Frankenstein (2025) One Battle After Another (2025) The Love That Remains (2025) The Testament of Ann Lee (2025)
neutral · AI labelView post →Official Discussion - The Testament of Ann Lee [SPOILERS]. **Summary** Set in the late 18th century, the film follows Ann Lee, the founder of the Shakers, as she leads her small but devoted religious community from England to America. Viewed by her followers as a spiritual visionary and by her detractors as a radical heretic, Ann’s journey explores faith, persecution, gender, and the cost of unwavering belief in a hostile world. **Director** Mona Fastvold **Writer** Mona…
neutral · AI labelView post →"Impossible to look away" -- @thirdcoastrvw.bsky.social THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE is Now Playing at the Music Box, presented in 70mm! Get Tickets Now: musicboxtheatre.com/films-and-ev...
neutral · AI labelView post →🎞️70mm Film Frames of THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE🎞️ Set sail for the historical epic from the filmmakers of THE BRUTALIST, Now Playing at the Music Box! Showtimes & Tickets Now Available through Thursday January 29th: musicboxtheatre.com/films-and-ev...
neutral · AI labelView post →Just saw The Testament Of Ann Lee. Loved it. What a sincere, uncynical movie. The brains that create systems of belief and societies like these, man. Humans are amazing. Just one of many great original movies I’ve seen in theaters lately. Cinema lives! God bless this crazy fragile art form.
positive · AI labelView post →Spouse agreed to see both The Testament of Ann Lee and the Bone Temple on Sunday, despite a general avoidance to seeing more than one movie each weekend, because they know I'm having a hard week. I have a great spouse.
neutral · AI labelView post →Make sure you see THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE in theaters. I believe it's the first female-directed movie to be shown in 70mm (Wonder Woman had a 70mm blowup). That and I love it.
positive · AI labelView post →#TheTestamentofAnnLee stars Amanda Seyfried, Thomasin McKenzie and Viola Prettejohn came to the BFI London Film Festival premiere in stupid dresses (click to see what we mean) tomandlorenzo.com/2025/10/bfi-...
neutral · AI labelView post →Amanda Seyfried borrowed Julia Roberts' dirty laundry for the #VeniceFilmFestival photo call for #TheTestamentofAnnLee and wound up looking better than most of her co-stars tomandlorenzo.com/2025/09/veni...
neutral · AI labelView post →the movie Fox Searchlight hid from wide access is finally on Hulu: THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE. you will see
positive · AI labelView post →THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE 2025, Fastvold ***** of five An absolute miracle of a movie. Here is a religious leader who throughly and fervently believes and the film pulls us along in her revery and ecstasy. Seyfried is a wonder and it’s more than a snub that this film didn’t get a single nomination 1/
positive · AI labelView post →Christy @christylemire.bsky.social and Alonso @aduralde.bsky.social give thanks and praise for The Testament of Ann Lee. #filmsky 📽
neutral · AI labelView post →#letterboxdfriday #lastfourwatched Accidentally rated THE TESTAMENT before rating the movie I’d actually seen, THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE, so I’m throwing in another film watched this past week.
neutral · AI labelView post →Style File: #TheTestamentofAnnLee star Amanda Seyfried hit the Palm Springs Film Festival and Critics Choice Awards red carpets over the weekend, but if this is her campaigning style. it's gonna need a refresh tomandlorenzo.com/2026/01/styl...
neutral · AI labelView post →What an odd, mesmerizing, rhapsodical film is The Testament of Ann Lee. A most unexpected musical. And how wonderful is Amanda Seyfried. Boy, that Mean Girls cast just keeps killing it.
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