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The Exorcist

The Exorcist: Believer

2023

David Gordon Green

Leslie Odom Jr., Ann Dowd, Jennifer Nettles, Norbert Leo Butz ...

4.4

2,672

Horror Since the death of his pregnant wife in an earthquake in Haiti 12 years ago, Victor Fielding has raised his daughter Angela alone. But when Angela and her friend Katherine disappear into the woods, only to return three days later with no memory of what happened to them, it sets off a chain of events that will force Victor to confront evil and, in his terror and desperation, he seeks out the only person alive who has ever witnessed such ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"It’s no surprise that 'Believer' is less terrifying than its venerable progenitor. That it’s considerably less daring than a movie made half a century ago compounds the disappointment"	NEG
United Kingdom	Benjamin Lee The Guardian	"A silly, gloopy Halloween shocker that offers just about enough goofy entertainment for an undemanding fright night crowd. But it might be close to impossible for those with deep reverence for the original (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	David Ehrlich IndieWire	"The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing me that a 2023 legacy sequel to 'The Exorcist' might actually make good on its potential"	NEG
United States	Michael O'Sullivan The Washington Post	"Scary enough for fans but may not make converts (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 5)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Tim Robey Telegraph	"It's truly embarrassing how little imagination is flexed all round (...) Rating: ★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Jeannette Catsoulis The New York Times	"[Green's former] patience and sensitivity has now been sacrificed to the cannibalism of recycled ideas; and while I don’t begrudge him his success, I do miss the filmmaker he used to be"	NEG
United Kingdom	Olly Richards Empire	"As a perfectly serviceable horror movie, it at least gets the 'The Exorcist' franchise back into respectable territory, but there was the potential for something much better (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Justin Clark Slant	"A mélange of tired normcore horror tropes indistinguishable from any film in the Conjuring universe (...) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	Matt Zoller Seitz rogerebert.com	"A pretty good movie that's so stuffed with characters and not-quite-developed ideas that you may come away from it thinking about what it could have been instead (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Leigh Monson AV Club	"An exorcism movie may not need to be compelled by the power of Christ, but something about it needs to be compelling, and slapping the name 'The Exorcist' on a screenplay that reads like a brainstorming session is just not enough"	NEG
United States	Richard Roeper Chicago Sun-Times	"This film has double the exorcisms but about 10% of the Scare Value of the 1973 classic (...) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	Matt Donato Paste Magazine	"[It] works fine as a rewound relaunch of 'The Exorcist' franchise"	POS
United States	Owen Gleiberman Variety	"[It] Trots Out the Same Old Tropes, Minus the Dread"	NEG
United States	Rodrigo Perez The Playlist	"[It] is kind of awful, but fascinatingly so, revoltingly nasty in all the right ways for better and worse"	NEU
Ireland	Brian Lloyd entertainment.ie	"The kind of tepid filmmaking that's on display in 'The Exorcist: Believer' is an affront to its originator and ultimately underlines how irrelevant it is (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	William Bibbiani The Wrap	"[N]ot ambitious enough to be interesting, nor is it powerful enough to get under the skin"	NEG
Hong Kong	James Mottram South China Morning Post	"Lidya Jewett and Olivia Marcum act the hell out of their scenes and the bleak finale is chilling (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
Australia	Neil Geraets Sydney Morning Herald	"Green's strategy seemed simple: double everything. But more isn't always better, particularly when following a film praised for its horrifying rawness and simplicity (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Johnny Oleksinski New York Post	"The sixth film in a franchise that should've proudly called it quits 50 years ago becomes absolutely enraging (...) Rating: ★ (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	Dylan Roth The New York Observer	"[It] gets the feel of that 1973 classic right (...) A film wherein everyone's effort is all a little too visible on screen (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
Canada	Barry Hertz The Globe and Mail	"The film ends on the biggest shoulder-shrug possible"	NEG
United States	Mary Beth McAndrews Dread Central	"[It] fundamentally misunderstands its source material and has nothing of any real substance to say (...) Rating: ★ (out of 5)"	NEG

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