The Stranger, September 8th, 2005
Lakes of pea soup have been spilled in its wake, but The Exorcist still reigns supreme among demonic cinema, mainly because director William Friedkin didn't appear to give a darn if the viewer was a believer or not. Aspirations to higher art aside, he basically wanted to make the audience whimper. The ambitious, awesomely cast The Exorcism of Emily Rose lacks the utter relentlessness of Friedkin's film, thank God (or whatever), but it still manages to lodge under the skin. Melding sharp court procedural and flesh-crawling flashbacks, it approaches its subject with an unusual and gratifying ser...
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