The Nun is a timeless story about a girl who’s sent against her will to a convent as a tenuous, quick fix to her precarious place in life.
The slender facts in this particular case (since it’s yet another film “based on true events”) can’t even begin to withstand the mammoth weight of a 150-minute running time.
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