THE EXORCIST III Review – **½

It may seem like damning with faint praise to say The Exorcist III is better than the abysmal Exorcist II, but it is, and to add that it’s still not as good as The Exorcist may seem like an obvious (if not universally shared) take, but it isn’t. In fact, on my 100-point scale, it…

THE EXORCIST Review – ****

When I first saw The Exorcist, sometime in my teenage years, my reaction was disappointment—mainly at my not being more scared by it, but also at what seemed to be the gaps in the story and the sluggishness of the prologue, set in Iraq, which introduces us to Fr. Lankester Merrin (Max von Sydow), the…