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Avg. Critic Score: 30 out of 100 Generally unfavorable reviews Metascore® based on all critic reviews
Information for Parents:
16 Iffy for 16+
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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 50
    San Francisco Chronicle |

    While the fourth "Exorcist" movie may have unmitigated disaster written all over it, the finished product is somehow sort-of-kind-of not all that bad. Read full review

  • 50
    New York Daily News | Jack Mathews

    Nothing fails like bad horror. But it's not despicable. It is merely boring. Read full review

  • 50
    Los Angeles Times |

    A perfectly mediocre horror film. There is some hoot-inducing dialogue and cheesy effects, but the film's workmanlike narrative marches gamely forward, managing a handful of respectable scares along the way. Read full review

  • 42
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

    The new movie is a dusty piñata stuffed with omens and not much more. Read full review

  • 40
    L.A. Weekly | Ron Stringer

    The “surprise” ending, when it comes, is more of a hoot than a holler. Read full review

  • 40
    Variety | Joe Leydon

    Earns points simply for not being bad enough to leave a stain on the screen. Unfortunately, this annoyingly disjointed shocker stumbles badly after promising early scenes, and quickly devolves into a chaotic blur of underdeveloped characters, illogical transitions and standard-issue scary-movie tropes. Read full review

  • 30
    The Hollywood Reporter | Kirk Honeycutt

    The scariest thing about this film is how desperate the makers are to earn a scream. Read full review

  • 30
    The New York Times | Manohla Dargis

    The risible dialogue, the bulging eyeballs, the heaving bosoms, the digitally rendered hyenas and squirming maggots, the movie fails to achieve the status of the instant camp classic. That's partly because the vibe of the film is too torpid. Read full review

  • 12
    Boston Globe | Wesley Morris

    This prequel has something to appall everybody. Read full review

  • 11
    Austin Chronicle | Marc Savlov

    Sloppy, confusing, and dull as a dented crucifix. Read full review


Information for Parents
Common Sense Media says Iffy for 16+ Brutal. Not for kids.
What Parents Need to Know Parents need to know that from the opening scene of bloody bodies stabbed and crucified across Kenyan soil, viewers are in for a brutal blood bath. Know that there is very graphic violence including a child being mauled by hyenas, a dead baby covered in maggots and someone slitting his throat.
  • Families can talk about violence in horror films. How much is necessary, and how much should be left to the imagination? Are films with more guts and gore scarier than more subtle films?
The good stuff
  • message true0 Positive messages: Characters are racist and misogynist -- and the film shows more vivid violence against Africans.
What to watch for
  • violence false5 Violence: Sickening graphic scenes including hyenas mauling a small child and baby born dead and covered in maggots.
  • sex false3 Sex: The beautiful doctor faces harassment, and sex and violence mix in the final showdown.
  • language false5 Language: Not too terrible until the very end when a possessed character spews a number of profanities at once.
  • consumerism false0 Consumerism: Not an issue
  • drugsalcoholtobacco false3 Drinking, drugs and smoking: There's some heavy drinking.

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