The newest Exorcist movie shows how American religion and Hollywood movies have shifted.

The first in a planned new Exorcist trilogy from director David Gordon Green fails to live up to its legacy

Fifty years after the Oscar-winning original upended the horror world, David Gordon Green’s “The Exorcist: Believer” makes for a fitfully satisfying reboot.

Fitful jolts aside, The Exorcist: Believer is a hoary and overcooked valentine to a horror classic.

It takes a village to perform an exorcism, and it takes the power of Ann Dowd and Ellen Burstyn to make this familiar material compelling.

Earnest and occasionally creepy but somewhat muddled sequel to a classic.

Not even the power of Christ could compel someone to put up with this inexcusable “requel” that’ll shake your faith in the idea of franchise reboots.

David Gordon Green’s sorta-sequel is the thinnest of pea-green soup

​The veteran Halloween ​director manages to turn terrifying material into a turgid mess in this fright-free revamp

The devil might have all the best tunes, but his record on horror franchises is patchy at best

After a promising start, the sixth film in a franchise that should’ve proudly called it quits 50 years ago becomes absolutely enraging.

Ellen Burstyn returns to the horror franchise for the first time in 50 years.

In 'The Exorcist: Believer', director David Gordon Green takes possession of the best franchise entry since the original

Five decades after the 1973 horror classic scared everyone, "The Exorcist: Believer" offers up unnerving sights but lacks the original movie's soul.

The film tries "tries to do is bring a very Catholic story into a non-denominational world," writes reviewer William Bibbiani

Film critic Peter Travers reviews "The Exorcist: Believer," in theaters now.

Ellen Burstyn hasn’t done an “Exorcist” since director William Friedkin’s 1973 smash. In "The Exorcist: Believer" she's treated as callously as Jamie Lee Curtis’s character was in “Halloween Kills.” Can filmmaker David Gordon Green do better next time?

Halloween Ends' David Gordon Green delivers a disappointing revival for a cornerstone of horror cinema.

Perhaps the last thing you'd expect a reboot of "The Exorcist" franchise to botch is -- you know -- the exorcism scene. But that's what "The Exorcist: Believer" does. It's another David Gordon Green ("Halloween" franchise) reboot, so you can expect sentimental returns of surviving characters from the original film, a renewel of the threat…

A half-century after the original helped rewrite the rules of horror and launched a thousand imitators, “The Exorcist: Believer” tries picking up that mantle, with the lure of 90-year-old Ellen Burstyn reprising her role. The nostalgia factor elevates an otherwise slow-building film that maintains an eerie creepiness before fumbling through a slightly muddled climactic act.

Ellen Burstyn and Leslie Odom Jr. can’t change the fact that exorcism tropes are old hat. 

David Gordon Green moves from Halloween to another massive horror franchise

The demon Pazuzu gets a two-for-one deal in this "requel," featuring Leslie Odom Jr. and Ellen Burstyn.

This is a toned-down, more limply palatable iteration of William Friedkin’s 1973 classic: the projectiled pea soup is gone, the verbal abuse has been whittled down to a single ‘c***ing’, and any and all acts committed with crucifixes barely register a shock

The Exorcist: Believer review: What the devil is going on here?

The Exorcist: Believer isn't the worst Exorcist sequel, but it is the least interesting Exorcist sequel. Read our review of the David Gordon Green film here.

Movie review, 'The Exorcist: Believer': this movie gets the feel of the 1973 classic right, but doesn't connect on the gut level.

'The Exorcist: Believer,' David Gordon Green’s newest attempt to raise franchise hell, results in a disjointed mess.

David Gordon Green’s 'Exorcist: Believer' is kind of awful, but fascinatingly so, revoltingly nasty in all the right ways for better and worse.