"Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson reunite to play renowned, real-life paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren, facing an "evil unlike anything they've ever encountered." That evil? It lives in the Pennsylvania suburbs of 1986, of course. The evil thing this time is a full-length wooden-framed mirror with carvings of three children. It's given as a gift to a girl's confirmation - a mirror, really?"
"There's too much reliance on thunderstorms, quick cuts of grinning monsters, a slow buildup to the climactic final battle that drags in parts - how many delicate moving music boxes can we enjoy watching? - and Ed Warren should probably by now have committed to memory the correct Catholic prayer passages to banish a demon (Ed, man, get off book)."
"This gives the moviemakers a chance to make a wedding dress shopping experience a truly frightening experience - if it wasn't already - and a garbage disposal explodes in blood. The Conjuring has always taken pedestrian things and tried to turn them creepy but maybe jumped the shark last time with a possessed water bed. The death of a recurring character connects the Warrens and the story of the poor Pennsylvania family with their horrible mirror. "It found us," says dad, ominously."
Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson return as Ed and Lorraine Warren confronting a malevolent wooden-framed mirror carved with three children in 1986 Pennsylvania suburbs. The mirror arrives as a confirmation gift and soon causes levitations, yanked telephone cords, and possessed dolls, escalating to a wedding-dress shop scare and a garbage disposal that explodes in blood. A recurring character's death links the Warrens to the afflicted family, leading to a drawn-out final confrontation. The film leans on storms, quick monster cuts, and repeated music-box buildups, yet ultimately delivers a conventional victory for the Warrens.
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