"Boorman and the Devil"
Linda Blair in “Boorman and the Devil,” a doc about a doomed “Exorcist” sequel, from Yellow Veil Pictures

"Boorman and the Devil"

There’s humor and heart in this dazzling and often delusional doc that tries to reframe a 50-year-old sequel to “The Exorcist” as a lost masterpiece.

By Peter Travers

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★★★ (3 out of 4)

I love the Screening Room section of The Travers Take because I can talk to rabid movie lovers like me who’d happily seek out a documentary about a 50-year-old cinema disaster of epic proportions. Such a wonder is “Boorman and the Devil,” now in a select theaters that cater to audiences who know that there is no such thing as minutiae when it comes to film history.

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