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- 40TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghTV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghLedger swirls his cassock glamorously, while Weller is clearly concealing cloven hoofs beneath his; Addy plays the fool and the one-note Sossamon is thoroughly annoying, as fey as Meg Tilly but without Tilly's redeeming faraway air.
- 38PremierePeter DebrugePremierePeter DebrugeWith its ho-hum hero and lackluster love story, The Order would likely be one big implausible bore if it wasn't for production designer Miljen Kreka Kljakovic.
- 30VarietyVarietyCommits the first cardinal sin of cinematic horror -- it's boring and doesn't have a single scary moment.
- 30Los Angeles TimesManohla DargisLos Angeles TimesManohla DargisCast adrift with vague, improbable characters and a plot that's at once under-and overcooked, the actors struggle to find a steady tone, lurching from somber to silly as the director tries to figure out what he's doing.
- 25New York Daily NewsJami BernardNew York Daily NewsJami BernardCertainly a dark spirit is hovering over this inane production. Something has sucked the life out of it.
- 25New York PostJonathan ForemanNew York PostJonathan ForemanThe screenplay is packed with so many hilariously bad lines (it's hard to believe that writer-director Helgeland won an Oscar for co-writing "L.A. Confidential") that the movie would be perfect material for a resurrected version of the TV spoof "Mystery Science Theater."
- 20The New York TimesStephen HoldenThe New York TimesStephen HoldenA murky ecclesiastical horror film, may be the nadir of the subgenre that produced "The Exorcist" (at its high end) and "Stigmata" (at its middle-to-low end).
- 20Film ThreatRick KisonakFilm ThreatRick KisonakGodawful mess.
- 12Boston GlobeWesley MorrisBoston GlobeWesley MorrisA stupendous bore.
- 10Village VoiceVillage VoiceThis ghost-in-the-Vatican thriller regurgitates enough occult clichés to deserve its own special circle of hell.