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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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,…

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

Here everything feels limp – simultaneously over and undercooked…

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By Nick Schager (2,294) for Village Voice (8,525) on 28 Aug 2012

Bornedal's fondness for punctuating abrupt cuts to black with a solitary piano-key note is so pathological that it soon turns risible…

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By Chris Cabin (484) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 28 Aug 2012

Remarkable only in how brazenly it embraces the tired yet proven formula that these modern ghost tales deal in…

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By Jordan Hoffman (1,025) for ScreenCrush (954) on 27 Aug 2012

Finally, a Jewish horror film (and not just a Bernie Madoff documentary!)…

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