Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist Critic Reviews

It may not have been what the producers had in mind, but they asked for a Paul Schrader movie, and that's exactly what he delivered.Read the full review

Instead of cheap thrills, Schrader gives us a frightening vision of a good priest who fears goodness may not be enough.Read the full review

It's a good, thoughtful horror picture--and thiiis close to being a very good one.Read the full review

Result is hardly a diabolical failure, if not quite a heavenly masterpiece. Schrader's intelligent, quietly subversive pic emphasizes spiritual agony over horror ecstasy, while paying occasional lip-service to the need for scares.Read the full review

Instantly forgettable.Read the full review

Schrader, in Auto Focus, displayed a devious sense of sin, but in Dominion the Calvinist schoolboy in him insists on trumping sin with guilt.Read the full review

There's no escaping that "Dominion" is finally an act of commercial scavenging. You may retrieve the eggshells, coffee grounds and banana peels from your trash and assemble them into a cute, novelty gift basket. But if you bend down and take a whiff, your nose is still met with the scent of garbage.Read the full review

Awfully dull, with scant evidence of the sort of things that make horror movies attractive -- like mounting suspense and spine-tingling creepiness and, oh yeah, the element of horror.Read the full review