Schrader's intelligent, quietly subversive pic emphasizes spiritual agony over horror ecstasy, while paying occasional lip-service to the need for scares.
– Leslie Felperin,
Variety,
26 May 2005
rotten:
The frights, the scares, they just weren't there.
– Richard Roeper,
Ebert & Roeper,
24 May 2005
fresh:
It's a good, thoughtful horror picture -- and thiiis close to being a very good one.
– David Edelstein,
Slate,
20 May 2005
fresh:
Exorcism aside, Dominion is well-acted, handsomely photographed and hauntingly scored.
– Bruce Westbrook,
Houston Chronicle,
20 May 2005
rotten:
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.