The film contains one of the great gross-out scenes of all time...

| Oct 21, 2024

[Possession] remains one of the most grueling, powerful, and overwhelmingly intense cinematic experiences that you are likely to have in your lifetime.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 1, 2021

Adjani won the best actress prize at Cannes for her dual performance (as an unfaithful wife and her angelic doppelganger), but the whole cast is astonishing, exorcising painful feelings with an intensity that rivals that of the filmmaking.

| Jan 23, 2014

That the film is much more than a gawk-at-it freak show is testament to Zulawski's talent for making even the most exaggerated behavior resonate with pointed and potent emotion.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 29, 2011

In much the same way that Possession blurs and blends genres, it also inextricably entangles the personal and the political.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Nov 29, 2011

really Possession is like nothing else - an uncompromising and idiosyncratic vision of the divisions that exist around, between and within us all.

Full Review | Nov 2, 2010

Horror being a profitable genre in the early 1980s, Possession was made to pronounce an aesthetic more visceral than cerebral, in turn more superficial than it was initially conceived to impart.

| Original Score: 4/4 | May 24, 2006