The Exorcist Reviews
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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.
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-
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
If movies are, among other things, opportunities for escapism, then The Exorcist is one of the most powerful ever made.
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| Original Score: 4/4
There's something elemental about The Exorcist.
There is nothing dated about The Exorcist, which remains an effective excursion into demonic possession more than a quarter of a century after it was first unveiled to the public.
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| Original Score: 3/4
An expert telling of a supernatural horror story.
This 1973 horror thriller is highly instructive as well as unnerving.
