Well-plotted, with a first-class group of actors and sure-handed direction by Steven Spielberg's favorite cinema-tographer, Janusz Kaminski.

| Mar 29, 2019

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 10, 2007

Alas, look is everything here and storytelling and characters are next to nothing, so what emerges is oddly ineffectual and uninvolving -- visually striking set pieces set loose in a void.

| Jan 6, 2007

The tedious storytelling sucks the life and soul out of the characters far more effectively than Satan ever manages.

| Jun 24, 2006

[An] unholy mess of a flick.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Mar 22, 2002

With the original Exorcist back at the multiplex, you don't need this pale copy.

Full Review | Original Score: 0/5 | May 8, 2001

Lucifer has been poorly served by Hollywood's current penchant for Satanic shenanigans.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 16, 2001

For Winona Ryder completists, maverick Biblical scholars, fans of monied Manhattan interiors and Mark Kermode. All others, beware.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 7, 2001

Kaminski brings all the visual oomph one could ask for, but not enough narrative spine, momentum, or substance.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

A pretty dreary affair to sit through. It's not even scary.

| Original Score: 0.5/5 | Jan 1, 2000

Confusing, flatlined script.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

This generically promotable but heavy-handed pic should look forward to a quick and relatively painless transition to the video shelf.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Far from being frightening or brutal or harrowing, as an exorcism thriller ought to be, it's silly, undone by lack of faith in its own subject.

| Original Score: D+ | Jan 1, 2000

While it's beautifully shot, it's way too slow. And it isn't one bit scary.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Yet another story about the devil taking over the world, the film starts out strongly, but quickly loses its way in the morass of its own hocus-pocus.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

The barely relieved boredom is, apparently, an attempt to contradict David Byrne's contention that only 'Heaven is a place where nothing really happens.'

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 1, 2000

Muddled, relentlessly derivative and uninvolving except as a visually superb image roll.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Feels like a film student's awkward homage to Polanski's Rosemary's Baby.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

There are some inadvertently hilarious occurrences and some abominable acting.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

This muddled, shamelessly derivative mess should have been ticketed straight to video.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000