Atom User Reviews for The Exorcist: Director's Cut

Just as some of the footage deepens what is already there, additions in final reel, though closer to Blatty’s wishes, restate the obvious or add a feel-good patina which pushes the film closer to our own audience-pleasing period than the more daring early ’70s. [2000 re-release]

Robert Koehler

Variety

A museum piece, something to be enjoyed for its historical value. [2000 re-release]

Desson Thomson

Washington Post

William Friedkin’s full-throttle adaptation of William Peter Blatty’s novel works because it fuses the extreme and the everyday.