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91It's not every day you get to see a movie that begins in satire and ends in reverence, but then, for Kevin Smith, they may ultimately be the same thing.
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90One of those special movies whose freshness and vitality are so bounteously infectious, your humble reviewer wishes everyone had the pleasure of discovering it brand-new and undescribed.
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90The first commandment of Dogma: Thou shalt not stop laughing.
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88If the film is less than perfect, it is because Smith is too much in love with his dialogue. Smith is a gifted comic writer who loves paradox, rhetoric and unexpected zingers from the blind side.
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80Kevin Smith's comic-religious fantasy turns out to be the sweetest hot-potato movie imaginable.
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80A tortured testament from a true believer.
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78One of the most intelligent, engaging, and gut-bustingly funny revelations to come along in a while.
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75A raunchy, irreverent, generally hilarious sendup of ritual and papal decree.
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75Mature, thoughtful and occasionally dazzling.
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75Dogma' is Kevin Smith's fourth film and it looks like his first but I'm not ready to quit him -- there's a landmark in him. I just wish the crafty, raucous Dogma was it.
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75Has that rarest of qualities in movies that think of themselves as religious. I'm talking about the vision thing. And the ability to make morality entertaining.
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75Suffused with a sophomoric sensibility that belies its more serious underpinnings.
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75A scathing, scurrilous, sometimes silly but often searching comedy about the nature of faith in the 21st century.
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75Frequently hilarious, often profound, and occasionally stupid.
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70A profession of faith, made with the confident disrespect of a true believer.
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70Smith has fashioned a complex, contemporary Bible epic on his own terms. By turns crafty and clunky, pious and profane, it's clearly a labor of love.
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70Smith has crammed the film with enough genuinely funny moments and insightful bits to make it well worth seeing.
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70A raucous, profane but surprisingly endearing piece of work.
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70Smith makes a big, gutsy leap into questions of faith and religion. He miraculously emerges with his humor intact and his wings unsinged.
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63Smith's strongest suit is writing dialogue that slips smart insights in between pop-culture references and raunchy language.
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63As funny as a lot of the film is, Dogma remains as frustratingly uneven as the rest of Smith's work.
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63Kevin Smith's attempt to combine sketchy low comedy with long-winded theological speculation results in a mostly unfunny and occasionally tedious mess.
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63It does commit a cardinal sin of filmmaking. It's boring.
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63There is a keen intellect behind this devoutly defiant fable.
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60Say what you will about (Smith's) sense of humor, genuine faith is rare enough in popular culture to make any sighting worthy of note.
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60The first truly countercultural apocalypse fantasy.
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58Dotted with real laughs and held together by some solid acting, but it's built of a fairly flaccid narrative and some really amateurish sequences.
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50Wildly irreverent fantasy.
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50A surprisingly adult exploration of religion refracted, as always, through (Smith's) insistently pop-culture kaleidoscope.
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50As preposterous as the movie gets, it's clearly reveling in its own hokiness.
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42Smith has badly overextended his modest filmmaking gifts.
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40(Smith) seems out of his depth in this talky, rambling religious satire.
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40A very vulgar pro-faith comedy rather than a sacrilegious goof, Dogma is an extraordinarily uneven film.
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40For a while, the film is screamingly funny, but the further it goes, the more muddled the narrative becomes.
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30A tediously childish exhibition.
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30If you're an 11-year-old boy at heart, this is undoubtedly even better than the pile of dinosaur shit in Jurassic Park.
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