“Director David Kittredge’s sympathetic and engrossing documentary argues that Exorcist II: The Heretic was not a failed franchise cash-in, but rather one of those grandiosely intentioned, late-1970s Icarus flights where an auteur high on his own supply steered too close to the sun. It’s one of the best movies I’ve seen about the making of a movie.” – Spliced Personality Substack, 03/20/2026