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SummarySurviving your teenage years isn’t easy, especially when you’re possessed by a demon. It’s 1988, and best friends Abby (Elsie Fisher) and Gretchen (Amiah Miller) are navigating boys, pop culture, and a paranormal force clinging to Gretchen like a pair of neon legwarmers. With assistance from overly confident mall exorcist Christian Lemon (Christo... Read More

Directed By:Damon Thomas

My Best Friend's Exorcism

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58
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Metascore
58
42% Positive
5 Reviews
50% Mixed
6 Reviews
8% Negative
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Sep 29, 2022
100
Collider
My Best Friend’s Exorcism has something for everyone: strong female characters, spooky atmosphere, humor, heart, a bitchin’ 1980s setting. There is a lot to like here, and plenty to enjoy all year round.
Sep 30, 2022
70
Los Angeles Times
At its best and its sharpest, this film is less about supernatural monsters than about the common fear of drifting apart from the people you love.
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4.9
19% Positive
3 Ratings
69% Mixed
11 Ratings
13% Negative
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Oct 6, 2022
4
JLuis_001
I wasn't sure what I was going to see and I think that somehow helped me not to have any kind of high expectations, but I certainly think this movie was too soft in almost all its aspects, even in the comedy, so the horror moments also suffer a lot, especially because the moments in which it seeks to use that resource fall quite short, even in its confrontation and final act in which the boring and unexciting exorcism of the title takes place. I had thought about buying the book on which this movie is based, but now I can only say its results have taken away all my desire to do so.
Mar 8, 2023
3
alanpotter17
O filme até que promete no início, com uma trilha animada (tem até A-ha) e uma vibe meio "Menina Malvada", e a construção dos personagens é boa o suficiente para manter o interesse. Mas aí quando o filme inventa de falar sobre o exercismo em si, se perde geral. Se perde feio na verdade. é preciso de muita competência para criar a atmosfera necessária para migrar de gêneros tão distintos entre si. Veja, o problema maior não está na escolha dos gêneros, mas na transição e na construção da atmosfera. Acabou soando muito falso, e a simpatia pelas personagens logo se esvai, se torna um filme aborrecido, chato mesmo. Veja por exemplo o filme "A vida depois", que também começa good vibes e consegue com maestria inserir um drama pesado. Aqui a confusão que há entre um filme de colegial e um filme que fala de magia e exorcismo, simplesmente não decolou, é como se o roteiro não soubesse o que fazer. Para piorar, tudo soou genérico demais, se ao menos o problema se restringisse à transição, mas no caso o problema persiste, o padre por exemplo é de uma caricatura preguiçosa, o desenrolar todo é ruim. Em resumo, você pode assistir aos primeiros minutos e ir ver algum filme da saga Crepúsculo, que talvez se divirta mais.
Sep 30, 2022
67
The A.V. Club
Although the film makes some notable insights about the teenage psyche, there isn’t quite enough ‘there’ there to elevate the film above the ranks of average horror programming.
Sep 30, 2022
60
The Guardian
My Best Friend’s Exorcism could perhaps do with one or two genuine scares. But for anyone old enough to remember Tiffany and advice columns in teenage girls’ magazines, this is going to deliver a pleasing shot of nostalgia.
Sep 30, 2022
50
IndieWire
My Best Friend’s Exorcism isn’t funny enough to get away with so few genuine scares, and it isn’t scary enough to save most of its biggest laughs for the final act.
Sep 30, 2022
45
Paste Magazine
Ostensibly, this is a movie about best friends and the exorcism that comes between them. Only the second part of the title lands.
Sep 30, 2022
30
Variety
Though this ’80s-set horror-comedy takes an old-school approach to capturing the horrific happenings, the stunts are lackluster and the comedic hijinks are a tiresome bore. With very little interest conjured from the filmmakers to properly develop their characters, there’s little incentive to stay interested.
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Jun 14, 2024
2
ALMJ
Not a horror at all. Just a film with some spooky elements and the idea that demons exist. Overall just boring with some bad acting from the two leads. Unfortunately there's a ton of Amazon DEI thrown in as well. It's even thrown into it as an Easter egg of sorts, Look at the band posters in the girls bedrooms many of them are for "the culture wars"....
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Sep 30, 2022
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