The Pope’s Exorcist | 1-minute review

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Follow along as RANKED reviews a new movie release every week of 2023, slowly compiling the best films of the year into our sacred hierarchical list.

Previous Episode 2023 RANKED List:
1. Beau Is Afraid
2. Infinity Pool
3. John Wick: Chapter 4
4. Air
5. Creed III
6. Shazam! Fury of the Gods
7. Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
8. M3GAN
9. missing
10. Scream VI
11. The Super Mario Bros. Movie
12. Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
13. Renfield
14. Evil Dead Rise
15. Magic Mike’s Last Dance
16. Knock at the Cabin
17. Plane
18. Cocaine Bear

The Pope’s Exorcist has one thing going for it, and his name is Russell Crowe. His quirkily optimistic Father Gabriele Amorth is a neat change of pace as far as professional exorcists go. Telling jokes and making bird noises at groups of nuns makes thematic sense especially after he justifies it by telling his younger priest counterpart that the devil doesn’t like jokes.

Then this classic old priest and young priest pair are given proper backstories to weigh in on the trippy “it’s all in your mind” satanic possession imagery to give context and meaning for their exorcism scenes. Cool.

The movie also sets up some compelling world ending stakes to go along with the typical “we must save this child’s soul” smaller stakes.

However, in the end, as much as the movie takes itself seriously at the starting line, the problem (as with most exorcism movies) is that expressing abstract spiritual matters onscreen is very difficult, and so inevitably they fall back on special effects to the point that it looks like a wizard battle out of Harry Potter or Dr. Strange. On that note, they even go so far as to hint at this being the beginning of a Pope’s Exorcist cinematic universe.

But if that includes more fat Russell Crowe zipping around the world on a vespa scooter, count me in.

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