If The Ritual follows a similar pattern, you might see the movie on video-on-demand in a little over a months time, around mid-to-late July 2025. But this is all speculation.

This week’s new movies on VOD include Al Pacino as a demon-exorcising priest in The Ritual, and the vacation-gone-terribly-wrong dark comedy I Don’t Understand You, starring Nick Kroll and ...

The movie's much younger version of Schmidt - played by Abigail Cowen, who's in her late twenties and could pass for a teen - arrives at St. Joseph's as a frail, frightened and passive presence ...

Grade: D An XYZ release, “The Ritual” opens in theaters nationwide on Friday, June 6. Want to stay up to date on IndieWire’s film reviews and critical thoughts?

The real Reverand Joseph Steiger transcribed the events The Ritual is based on, so it only made sense that the narrative moved through him in the film.