Cinafilm has over 5 million movie reviews and counting …

About Us
Contact Us
Sitemap
Follow us onCinafilm - Twitter Cinafilm - Pinterest

Last updated: 19 Jul 2026 at 15:06 UTC

Back to movie details

The Possession (2012) - Critic Reviews - Page 4 of 5

61-80 of 83 Reviews

Sort by:

Review of The Possession (2012)

By Shaun Munro (472) for What Culture (594) on 29 Aug 2012

The Possession is funnier and better-acted than many similar films, but still feels awfully rote…

Review of The Possession (2012)

By Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) (2,277) for St. Paul Pioneer Press (4,360) on 29 Aug 2012

The elegant closing credits are among the year's most stylish…

Review of The Possession (2012)

By Roger Moore (6,008) for Tribune News Service (1,102) on 29 Aug 2012

If you see only one Jewish demonic possession movie this year…

Review of The Possession (2012)

By William Bibbiani (788) for CraveOnline (813) on 29 Aug 2012

If The Possession really was 9/10ths of the law, our entire legal system would pretty much be based on The Exorcist…

Review of The Possession (2012)

By Staci Layne Wilson (667) for Horror.com (214) on 29 Aug 2012

Is The Possession destined to be a classic? Probably not…

Review of The Possession (2012)

By Jeannette Catsoulis (1,537) for New York Times (5,786) on 29 Aug 2012

Even if you resist the film's claims of being based on one family's actual experiences, The Possession is eerily enjoyable pulp…

Review of The Possession (2012)

By Bill Goodykoontz (2,123) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 29 Aug 2012

Ole Bornedal's film hits enough high notes to make it a worthwhile addition to the exorcism-film heap, somewhere in the lower middle…

Review of The Possession (2012)

By Tirdad Derakhshani (358) for Philadelphia Inquirer (3,920) on 29 Aug 2012

The Possession has none of the suspense that made Bornedal's morgue thriller Deathwatch such shuddering good fun…

Review of The Possession (2012)

By Wesley Morris (1,967) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 29 Aug 2012

Oh my God, evil. What's with you? Ever since The Exorcist, it's been the same song-and-crab-dance: Demons don't kill, divorce does…

Review of The Possession (2012)

By Claudia Puig (2,080) for USA Today (4,117) on 29 Aug 2012

While the sound design and spooky minimalist music add suspense, and CGI effects are duly sinister, a climactic strobe effect is more annoying…

Review of The Possession (2012)

By Elizabeth Weitzman (1,905) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 29 Aug 2012

Slick direction and a strong central turn from Jeffrey Dean Morgan will keep you watching, if rarely from the edge of your seat…

Review of The Possession (2012)

By Peter Hartlaub (620) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 29 Aug 2012

Bornedal invests so much time in the characters - Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Kyra Sedgwick play the split parents of the girls - that there are…

Review of The Possession (2012)

By Nathan Rabin (1,078) for AV Club (2,778) on 29 Aug 2012

The Possession attempts to breathe new life into a creaky old subgenre by taking its exorcist and demon from Jewish mythology, but even this…

Review of The Possession (2012)

By Tim Grierson (1,482) for Screen International (2,241) on 28 Aug 2012

Director Ole Bornedal deserves some credit for his restraint and tonal control, but there's only so much he can do for this latest twist on…

Review of The Possession (2012)

By Rob Daniel (202) for Sky Cinema (1,726) on 28 Aug 2012

Predictable, derivative, incoherent, dunderheaded and criminally unscary, this is proof the time has come to exorcise possession movies…

Review of The Possession (2012)

By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 28 Aug 2012

Like The Exorcist, the best film in the genre, it is inspired by some degree of religious scholarship and creates believable characters in…

Review of The Possession (2012)

By Alison Willmore (681) for Movieline (883) on 28 Aug 2012

This variation on the demon child subgenre has enough of the familiar and the new to be a decently good time at the movies…

Review of The Possession (2012)

By Geoff Berkshire (602) for Variety (12,700) on 28 Aug 2012

A ho-hum exorcism chiller that tries to spice up a formulaic screenplay by converting a predominantly Catholic-fixated horror subgenre to Judaism…

Review of The Possession (2012)

By Frank Scheck (1,741) for Hollywood Reporter (2,966) on 28 Aug 2012

Representing a sort of equal opportunity religious variation on an all-too-familiar theme, The Possession is a Jewish-themed Exorcist that,…

Review of The Possession (2012)

By Drew Taylor (218) for The Playlist (3,871) on 28 Aug 2012

Here everything feels limp – simultaneously over and undercooked…

1
2
3
4
5

Page 4 of 5

More reviews of this movie:

The Possession (2012) Movie Reviews (692)
The Possession (2012) User Reviews (609)

Perhaps you were looking for:

Rob LaBelle - Top 5 movies:

Jeffrey Dean Morgan - Top 5 movies:

Madison Davenport - Top 5 movies:

Movies you might like:

2009

42%295 Reviews

2018

49%861 Reviews

2004

49%670 Reviews

2021

42%15 Reviews

World Trade Center

2006

60%824 Reviews

Mission: Impossible III

2006

69%927 Reviews

2004

72%948 Reviews

2002

45%142 Reviews

Nosferatu the Vampyre

1979

75%565 Reviews

1985

72%18 Reviews

Share This Page

Share

Tweet

Popular Movies Right Now

Spider-Man: No Way Home

2021

79%458 Reviews

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

2014

79%1,167 Reviews

2018

72%1,650 Reviews

2023

85%310 Reviews

Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood

2019

81%344 Reviews

2022

68%181 Reviews

2019

69%207 Reviews

2019

70%94 Reviews

2022

56%11 Reviews

Avengers: Endgame

2019

86%432 Reviews

Movies You Viewed Recently

2012

58%692 Reviews

1989

67%611 Reviews

2006

74%365 Reviews

2005

70%832 Reviews

Ricki and the Flash

2015

55%521 Reviews

2007

77%778 Reviews

Terminator Genisys

2015

54%1,112 Reviews

2006

53%809 Reviews

Glengarry Glen Ross

1992

80%626 Reviews

Fruitvale Station

2013

79%1,003 Reviews

Get social with CinafilmFollow us for reviews of the latest moviesCinafilm - Twitter Cinafilm - Pinterest Cinafilm - RSS

© 2026 Cinafilm Internet Productions

Prime Video logo is a trademark of Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates

Our website support team can be reached by email at [email protected], or by phoning +44 3300 431 396

Cinafilm IP, Office 12693, PO Box 15113, Birmingham, West Midlands, B2 2NJ, United Kingdom