Just barely manages to set itself apart from the generic possession subgenre, though only barely.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 22, 2023

Despite the film's technical precision and Jeffrey Dean Morgan, The Possession doesn't offer anything novel or particularly entertaining. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/10 | Jun 13, 2023

A PG-13-rated chiller that starts out spooky enough but gradually turns toward the cliché and silly.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Oct 3, 2022

The film emphasizes mood and atmosphere over actual chills and thrills.

| Original Score: 2.5/4.0 | Sep 20, 2020

There's a new face of evil in town. It's time to get possessed with The Possession.

| Nov 27, 2019

A hollow shell of a possession flick, one that kills 90 minutes successfully but doesn't do anything more.

| Aug 2, 2019

Derivative, predictable and unforgivably mediocre.

| Jul 30, 2019

Familiar tropes require something original in execution for interest arousal, and The Possession simply does not deliver the goods.

| Feb 28, 2019

The Possession is unlikely to unseat The Exorcist in the pantheon of this horror subject, but it nonetheless works.

| Jan 31, 2019

It's a shame that the film couldn't have been possessed by the spirit of Sam Raimi. Or even Ted Raimi, for that matter.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Nov 4, 2018

By objectifying Jews as exotic others rather than presenting them as subjects, the Raimi production eliminates the precise element that would have been most powerful for a Jewish audience.

| Aug 16, 2017

Not every film needs to reinvent the wheel, and nothing here is particularly ground-breaking, yet this is one of the more satisfying horror jaunts in quite some time.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 25, 2013

...a better-than-expected variation on an exceedingly hoary theme...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 13, 2013

Puppet-master technique and a generally well orchestrated sense of moodiness help this chiller deliver on more than it botches, despite a fumbled third act.

| Original Score: B- | Feb 7, 2013

"The Possession" offers a few scares here and there. But, mostly it's a retread of spooky films that went before.

| Original Score: C- | Jan 25, 2013

The movie is well-appointed if not terribly well thought-out.

| Original Score: C- | Dec 17, 2012

Isabelle Adjani and Sam Neill give mesmerizingly out-there performances as a troubled couple trying to hold it together for their young son.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 13, 2012

While frustratingly vague in terms of character and motivation, The Possession is among the more competent of recent studio horror efforts. If only that wasn't the best thing I could say about it.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 5, 2012

When it comes to exorcism movies, the Catholics have the Jews beat

| Oct 20, 2012

Disquieting, lush in style, and most importantly, emotionally engaging, The Possession is a throwback to celebrated cinematic horror of old.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 19, 2012