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Review: 'The Apparition' investigates the strange phenomenon of Virgin Mary sightings

Ambitious and well-executed, "The Apparition" is a kind of ecclesiastical thriller. An involving and intelligent entertainment, if it ends up somewhat less than the sum of its parts, it's not for lack of attempting something different.

Best known for 2015's similarly unsettled "Marguerite," about an opera singer who didn't know how bad she was, writer-director Xavier Giannoli has taken as his theme another story outside the bounds of accepted reality: the alleged appearance of

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