It turns into just another dispiriting pastiche of the original Exorcist – but sadly without its intelligence or its malevolent sense of dread.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 17, 2025

The Exorcism’s exorcism is stunningly mediocre, and the glimpses of genuine potential it fails to grab makes it all the more blasphemous.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 6, 2025

The Exorcism segues into an egregiously deliberate (and fairly dull) midsection and second half suffused with questionable attributes...

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Dec 20, 2024

It’s an average movie, with enough thrills to entertain the horror fans, but with a story that felt overpacked. It felt like the movie was trying to do too many things.

| Nov 27, 2024

Combines horror, psychological drama, and Russell Crowe. [Full review in Spanish]

| Aug 9, 2024

Hopefully one day, we will get an exorcism flick that actually does something original with the formula. The Exorcism, however, is a sure sign that there’s much more that needs to be done in order to bring this kind of movie back to life.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 5, 2024

The hall-of-mirrors between real and imagined and autobiographical and fictional is discarded for green vomit and swirling furniture kabuki.

| Aug 2, 2024

Boy, did everyone involved in this deserve a lot better than the same old...

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jul 24, 2024

Like Godard’s Tout Va Bien, the (figuratively and literally) storied set can make the viewer feel like a voyeur. The pacing can be too stately, but an impressive ensemble working through a surfeit of good ideas compensates for the lack of jump scares.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 13, 2024

What's frustrating about this is that it had potential.

| Jul 13, 2024

A totally unnecessary film that doesn't need to exist in any universe.

| Jul 13, 2024

Good ideas, willing cast, beyond-lousy execution.

| Jul 12, 2024

The film just skims the surface, preferring to indulge in tired tropes. It teases us with the promise of a psychological drama but delivers little beyond jump-scares and spooky noises.

| Original Score: 2 | Jul 12, 2024

No self-respecting demon would want their IMDb page stunk up with what follows: a half-lit, unholy mess in which nothing is explained and nothing makes much sense.

| Jul 11, 2024

RIP Russell Crowe's career

| Original Score: 3/10 | Jul 6, 2024

The film’s compromised nature is tough to deny, yet the imagination and ingenuity on display for much of its runtime renders it a worthwhile view overall.

| Original Score: B- | Jul 5, 2024

Even an actor of Russell Crowe's calibre is not enough to elevate the film beyond mediocrity.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 5, 2024

The Exorcism’s metatextual spin on possession yarns eschews subversion for familiarity.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 4, 2024

This film-within-a-film may give casual horror buffs a snack until Halloween but it may not be full-throttle enough for those expecting the likes of The Exorcist.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Jul 4, 2024

A good idea for a demon-possession movie with a decent cast eventually goes downhill, with themes underexplored and characters losing their focus in favor of routine horror pyrotechnics.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 3, 2024