How to Use Leviticus in a Sentence

Leviticus

noun
  • How does the movie 'Leviticus' end?
    Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 20 June 2026
  • Aside from a bloodied ear here or there, most of the horrors in Leviticus are implied rather than shown.
    Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 18 June 2026
  • Leviticus has a enough gore and jumpy moments to qualify it as a proper horror film.
    Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 24 Jan. 2026
  • Leviticus happened quite quickly.
    Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 22 June 2026
  • Leviticus has more on its mind than translating real-life issues into genre fodder, however.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 17 June 2026
  • Talk to Me ended up playing a larger, albeit subconscious part in the creation of Leviticus.
    Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Apr. 2026
  • New entries include Neon horror feature Leviticus.
    Aaron Couch, HollywoodReporter, 20 June 2026
  • Yet, the core narrative of Leviticus is a genuine love story, one that hinges on the performances of Bird and Clausen.
    Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Leviticus has the sturdy nerve and conviction to plainly state that sometimes home and family are irredeemable and worth abandoning.
    Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 24 Jan. 2026
  • Did Team Leviticus ever cross paths with Team Obsession on the festival circuit?
    Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 22 June 2026
  • Unlike Leviticus, Obsession and Backrooms didn’t build their audiences from scratch.
    Sophia Morano, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
  • Leviticus is currently 100% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes.
    Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Thankfully, Leviticus has a good grasp on how to leverage this conceit for scares and to score points about the insidiousness of mistaking hatred for salvation.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 17 June 2026
  • There are a lot of verses in the Bible’s Book of Leviticus, but a single passage in particular seems to get trotted out time immemorial.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 17 June 2026
  • For any uninitiated readers, the title is a reference to the Old Testament’s Book of Leviticus.
    Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 22 June 2026
  • The director knew of Bird through Talk to Me, co-produced by the same company attached to Leviticus, Causeway Films.
    Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Apr. 2026
  • And unlike so many modern horror movies, Leviticus finds its way toward a natural, graceful, if not necessarily definitive ending.
    Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 18 June 2026
  • Leviticus premiered in the Midnight section of the 2026 Sundance Film Festival.
    Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Leviticus, on the other hand, is Australian director Adrian Chiarella’s debut feature and has an entirely original premise.
    Sophia Morano, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
  • Just as churchgoers will lie about familiarity with Leviticus or Deuteronomy, so too will readers lie about having read Miquel Cervantes and George Eliot.
    Literary Hub, 21 May 2026
  • Purity, impurity, and the laws and rituals designed to manage the boundary between them — these are the cornerstone concerns of the Book of Leviticus, the third book of the Old Testament.
    Natalia Winkelman, IndieWire, 24 Jan. 2026
  • As a hardcore religious right gains traction around the globe, Leviticus challenges the notion, made too easy to accept by the Heartstoppers and Love, Simons of the world, that coming out isn’t really such a big deal anymore.
    Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 24 Jan. 2026
  • Getty Images Leviticus, 2026’s latest horror, failed to replicate the breakout success of Obsession and Backrooms in its opening weekend.
    Sophia Morano, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
  • The new film Leviticus, from director Adrian Chiarella, is a solemn and frightening acknowledgment of that reality, albeit one allegorized into supernatural horror.
    Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 24 Jan. 2026
  • Below, during a conversation with THR, Chiarella also discusses how Talk to Me factored into the development of Leviticus, as well as the casting of Bird.
    Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 22 June 2026
  • In ‘Leviticus,’ Adrian Chiarella harnesses horror’s visceral power to confront homophobia with intelligence and imaginative flair, transforming a story of young love under siege into a gripping, urgent debut.
    Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Leviticus writer-director Adrian Chiarella sensed a shift in the world’s acceptance and tolerance toward the LGBTQIA+ community.
    Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 22 June 2026
  • But Hugh Jackman is also bringing the gritty, folkloric actioner The Death of Robin Hood to theaters, alongside NEON's new horror offering Leviticus.
    Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 14 June 2026
  • Nolan commands more media attention than do directors of other summer 2026 pictures like John Early (Maddie’s Secret) or Adrian Chiarella (Leviticus), both new to the trade.
    Peter Bart, Deadline, 22 May 2026
  • Its fronds are strewn across churchyards worldwide during Palm Sunday processions to symbolize Christ’s last entry into Jerusalem, and palm leaves cover the Sukkot booths during the annual Jewish Feast of the Tabernacles as called for in Leviticus.
    Jacob Jones, JSTOR Daily, 13 Aug. 2025

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