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Sarah Silverman: Jesus is Magic

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Movie Info

Genre(s): Comedy

Written by: Sarah Silverman

Directed by: Liam Lynch

Release Date:
Theatrical: November 11, 2005
DVD: June 6, 2006

Running Time: 72 minutes, Color

Origin: USA

Summary

RATING: Not Rated

Starring Sarah Silverman, La'vin Kiyano, Bob Odenkirk, Brian Posehn, Laura Silverman, and Brody Stevens

Directed by Liam Lynch, the film comprises Sarah Silverman's performance before a live audience interwoven with stylish musical numbers and backstage intrigue. (Roadside Attractions)

What The Critics Said

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80

LA Weekly Ernest Hardy

For all its shock-driven, laugh-out-loud moments, what makes Jesus so entertaining is that it puts you in the presence of a dementedly sharp mind -- one that understands that leftist subversion doesn't have to coddle or breast-feed the choir.

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80

Slate David Edelstein

It has its own explosively twisted originality. It's a geyser of exhilarating tastelessness.

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80

Washington Post Stephen Hunter

She is so funny she should come with a seven-day waiting period.

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80

Dallas Observer Robert Wilonsky

What makes Silverman a truly gifted comic is her timing and delivery.

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75

Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker

Silverman is funny and, more often than not, so is the film.

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75

Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea

Silverman is wickedly fast. Her timing kills.

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75

San Francisco Chronicle Ruthe Stein

Funny, original, occasionally poignant and almost all of it too dirty to repeat in a newspaper.

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75

Portland Oregonian M. E. Russell

You see, in "Jesus Is Magic," Sarah Silverman plays "Sarah," a self-absorbed Jewish American Princess who also happens to be casually, cluelessly racist.

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75

Baltimore Sun Chris Kaltenbach

Sarah Silverman says things you wouldn't expect a nice, attractive Jewish girl to say. But that's only half her appeal.

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75

USA Today Claudia Puig

She has been compared to Lenny Bruce because of her incendiary topics, but Silverman's style, capitalizing on her innocent smile and good looks, is her own.

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75

Chicago Tribune Allison Benedikt

Pairing monumental insensitivity with a bright-eyed delivery, Silverman is the current valedictorian of the nothing-is-sacred school of comedy, a modern-day Lenny Bruce spared her forefather's legal woes by time, breasts and porcelain skin.

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75

Rolling Stone Peter Travers

Sarah Silverman is the most outrageously funny woman alive.

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70

The Onion (A.V. Club) Scott Tobias

Though Silverman's edginess never quite crosses into social consequence, she's a brilliant craftswoman on stage, blessed with crack timing and an ability to massage each line to maximum effect.

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70

Village Voice J. Hoberman

Sarah Silverman's cartoon bunny rabbit smile could make her the poster child for orthodontia, but it's her timing that's the real thing of beauty.

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70

Salon.com Stephanie Zacharek

The picture consists mostly of performance footage of Silverman, which, despite the fact that it's shot on grainy, anemic-looking digital video, is a pleasure to watch.

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70

Chicago Reader J.R. Jones

It's the most exciting stand-up performance I've seen in years, yet in all honesty I can't say it made me laugh that much.

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67

Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

If you're going to say the unsayable and stay charming while doing so, it helps to look more like Sarah Silverman than Andrew Dice Clay.

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63

TV Guide Ken Fox

How can such awful things come out of the mouth of such a pretty girl?

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60

Film Threat Pete Vonder Haar

Once you become accustomed to her material and begin to anticipate it, some of the shine comes off the act.

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60

The New York Times Dana Stevens

Ms. Silverman is a skilled performer, and Jesus Is Magic is occasionally very funny, but don't be fooled: naughty as she may seem, she's playing it safe.

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60

Los Angeles Times Carina Chocano

Sarah Silverman has a bright, toothy smile; a sweet, innocent demeanor; and the most outrageously impious sense of humor of any comedian working today. And I don't just mean she's dirty. (She's filthy.) She makes fun of things other comedians wouldn't acknowledge, let alone mock.

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50

The Hollywood Reporter Michael Rechtshaffen

Definitely acquired-taste material and will perform best in the hipper, bigger rooms.

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50

New York Post Lou Lumenick

Sarah Silverman: Jesus is Magic works best when this equal-opportunity offender is on the stage.

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50

Variety Joe Leydon

Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic showcases the comic-actress in her familiar on-stage persona as a blithely self-involved Jewish American Princess whose penchant for perky vulgarity can be explosively funny or unnervingly shocking.

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50

New York Daily News Jack Mathews

On stage, the attractive 34-year-old Silverman is very funny. She's too blue for Comedy Central, and too slow-paced for an HBO hour, but she'd come off better in either of those formats than she does in this mishmash.

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50

Austin Chronicle Marjorie Baumgarten

The transitions from performance to song and to reality are strained and awkward.

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38

Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman

The hot comic du jour wants to startle us but is merely startlingly dull.

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38

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

A movie that filled me with an urgent desire to see Sarah Silverman in a different movie. I liked everything about it except the writing, the direction, the editing and the lack of a parent or adult guardian.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this movie is 6.1 (out of 10) based on 30 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Hal B. gave it a7:
Geez, why do viewers/critics take themselves (and this film) so seriously? It was a generally entertaining diversion, some laugh-out-loud moments, some light musical videos, lots of vulgarity and political incorrectness. Not everyone's cup of tea, but pretty damn funny nonetheless.. Jokes about 9/11 (actually, soy lattes), blacks, asians, hispanics, jews, caucasions, genitalia and "dooty" make up the bulk of her material. Sarah Silverman is undoubtedly talented and this movie showcases those talents. I'm not sure she's truly "edgy" or even trying to be that. She's just funny in a very offbeat and perverse way. And she happens to be very attractive & sexy. Not the girl to bring home to your mother, unless perhaps your mother is a jewish stripper who laughs at potty humor.

Josh C. gave it a0:
What Bruce did with obscenity and Mr. Pryor - especially in his first concert film - did with race was to find the outer boundary of the audience's tolerance and push beyond it, confronting and confusing the satisfied self-image of the liberal, sophisticated public. This kind of transgression has long since become ritualized and normalized, and Ms. Silverman's act is the latest evidence that mocking political correctness has become a form of political correctness in its own right. Her version of insult humor is actually flattering, both to herself and to those who find it funny. She depends on the assumption that only someone secure in his or her own lack of racism would dare to make, or to laugh at, a racist joke, the telling of which thus becomes a way of making fun simultaneously of racism and of racial hyper-sensitivity. (Like many young, otherwise deracinated Jewish comedians, Ms. Silverman falls back on her ethnic identity as a way of claiming ready-made outsider status.) Everything she says is delivered through enough layers of self-consciousness - air quotes wrapped in air quotes - to make anyone who finds it offensive look like a sucker. She even makes fun of the idea that she might be thought of as an "edgy" comedian. And indeed she isn't. Ms. Silverman is a gutless comic who is just playing it safe.

brett e. gave it a10:
Wildly funny. sarah hits it out the park with the deliverance of her matieral.

David R gave it a2:
Very, very hard to watch. Silverman pretending to be jewish is like Mencia pretending to be mexican. It's just not believable. The few times I did laugh were at the jokes that you had to think about. But instead of thinking about the jokes all I could think about is this woman is sleeping with Jimmy Kimmel. Not Adam Carolla but Jimmy Kimmel, an overweight prop comic who hosts a public access show at 4:00 in the morning. That alone left me with a bad taste in my mouth.

Robert M. gave it an8:
Absolutely hilarious! Silverman's timing is excellent and her "nice Jewish girl" shtick is worked to perfection. Some of the musical numbers are unimpressive, but overall this film is highly enjoyable.

Jim G. gave it a3:
Very disappointing effort. Blue humor is entertaining in two sets of circumstances: (1) you're in the audience drunk and young and just looking for diversion and (2) the messenger goes blue to exclaim or embolden some broader schtick. Silverman's got no schtick. She's just a deliverer of random profanity and schlocky shock. She hasn't found her way yet. When considered critically, the enjoyable parts of the movie turn out to be enjoyable because they were enhanced by a big budget. For example, her driving the in car sequence is bright and active, but without any humorous substance. Don't bother with this one. Unless, I suppose, you're drunk and young and got nothing else to do.

Chris W. gave it a9:
Probably the most original stand-up movie you will ever see! Great laughs the whole way through! Jesus is Magic!

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