Gregory Peck takes everything pitch-perfect seriously. This is one of his best performances.

| Original Score: A- | Oct 21, 2019

The Omen contains some of the most memorable untimely deaths in cinema history.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 29, 2014

Richard Donner directs more for speed than mood, but there are a few good shocks.

| Oct 9, 2012

It was the performance of Harvey Stephens as the young Damien that invested the film with the chill of genuine credibility.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 9, 2012

Richard Donner's direction is taut. Players all are strong.

| Mar 26, 2009

A bald-faced lamprey hitching its razor-tipped maw on the chassis of The Exorcist, The Omen's Sunday school parable of gothic Cathsploitation comes twice as thick and thrice as pious.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 21, 2006

This apocalyptic movie mostly avoids physical gore to boost its relatively unoriginal storyline with suspense, some excellent acting (especially from Warner and Whitelaw), and a very deft, incident-packed script.

| Jan 26, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 7, 2005

A member of the Exorcist family, it is a dreadfully silly film, which is not to say that it is totally bad.

| May 9, 2005

As long as movies like The Omen are merely scaring us, they're fun in a portentous sort of way.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 23, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 17, 2004