“Exorcist II: The Heretic” was a historic ... James Earl Jones wears a bug costume in the same year he voices Darth Vader. In perhaps the film’s most ridiculous (and offensive) scene ...

A half-century after the original helped rewrite the rules of horror and launched a thousand imitators, “The Exorcist: Believer” tries picking up that mantle, with the lure of 90-year-old ...

In “The Exorcist,” neither the plot nor the characters can be understood from a nonreligious vantage point. That is not true of beloved costume dramas such as “Becket” (1964) and “A Man ...