The Exorcist Reviews
Top Critic
It's good stuff but, basically, The Exorcist is a museum piece, something to be enjoyed for its historical value, its datedness and its almost quaint shock value.
Sacramento News & Review
This notorious battle between good and evil, nominated for eight Oscars when it was originally released in 1973, is both a hysteric scream and an intentional as well as unintentional hoot.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Total Film
Essential viewing for anyone who loves cinema. If you can endure it...
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| Original Score: 5/5
Old School Reviews
succeeds best in developing its characters
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| Original Score: B
Some movies aren't just movies. They're closer to voodoo -- they channel currents larger and more powerful than themselves.
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| Original Score: A-
Film Blather
There's something new to be discovered in every viewing of The Exorcist.
Cinemaphile.org
The Exorcist is likely just as disturbing today as it was 25 years ago.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Film Freak Central
But, is it just me, or is Karras's the only story that's really compelling?
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| Original Score: 4/4
FEARnet
It just never gets un-scary. That's the best part.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Common Sense Media
Trendsetting shocker about a possessed child.
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| Original Score: 4/5
IGN DVD
An unforgettable horror film that doesn't just get under my skin - it stays there.
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| Original Score: 10/10
Movie Metropolis
...the movie is right up there with the cinema's better chillers.
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| Original Score: 8/10
Antagony & Ecstasy
If it failed on all other levels (which it doesn't), The Exorcist would nevertheless be an excellent family horror story.
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| Original Score: 7/10
Cinefantastique
From the day of its first release in 1973, "The Exorcist: was the greatest horror film ever made, and it remains so to this day.
LarsenOnFilm
... a crude religious exploitation piece (although poor Linda Blair - required to urinate, swear and vomit on cue - is exploited more than anything else).
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| Original Score: 2/4
Combustible Celluloid
The overall film has a well-developed sense of atmosphere that most films of today are missing.
Friedkin and Blatty seem to care nothing for their characters as people, only as victims-props to be abused, hurled about the room, beaten and, in one case, brutally murdered.
The Exorcist is not an unintelligently put-together film, which makes one all the more impatient with it.
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| Original Score: 2/5
