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After Nazi officers force Merrin to choose ten members of his congregation for immediate execution, Merrin is left an emotionally broken man, and he takes a leave of absence from his duties to conduct archaeological excavations in British-administered East Africa.
It's a good, thoughtful horror picture -- and thiiis close to being a very good one.
May 20, 2005
Christianity Today
After 32 years, two sequels, and two prequels, The Exorcist remains an impossible act to follow.
September 22, 2006
Antagony & Ecstasy
I can't call it a success, but it is certainly an outstanding failure, an attempt to broaden the horizons of a stale genre with real discussion of the matters that consume its maker.
To be fair, Schrader's version fails in ways that Harlin's dumbed-down version didn't.
May 20, 2005
Combustible Celluloid
I like both versions of Exorcist IV about the same... It's too bad that a clever editor couldn't have taken the best bits from both films and put them together into a co-directed, successful whole.
Exorcism aside, Dominion is well-acted, handsomely photographed and hauntingly scored.
May 20, 2005
Hollywood Reporter
The Schrader variation is awfully dull, with scant evidence of the sort of things that make horror movies attractive -- like mounting suspense and spine-tingling creepiness and, oh yeah, the element of horror.
May 20, 2005
Film Threat
"Dominion" isn't outright horror, and a welcome relief from the days where shots are shorter than the hairs on our heads.
Schrader's intelligent, quietly subversive pic emphasizes spiritual agony over horror ecstasy, while paying occasional lip-service to the need for scares.