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90Ranks with the best of the bunch, given its spooky storyline that fuses religion with down-to-earth characters.
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67Less and less a skillfully creepy B-movie and more and more a plea for ecumenical reform.
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63Could have been a classy thriller. But all the Aramaic in the world can't save it from its own pounding slickness.
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60Filled with short, rapid-fire takes, edited to a pulsating beat and punctuated with blasts of noise...the style suits the often violent material, as well as Arquette's remarkable physical performance.
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60Essentially a late-'90s MTV version of "The Exorcist," a half-serious, half-silly piece of business that keeps us involved despite (or maybe because of) being more than a little overdone.
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50Possibly the funniest movie ever made about Catholicism. It confuses the phenomenon of stigmata with satanic possession.
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50A garish clashing of sacred images and bloody semihorror, this is a movie that defines the category: interesting failure.
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50Begins with a scene of mass repentance, but the real sin here is a profligate waste of talent.
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42There's not an authentically scary moment in it.
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40A fiery, convoluted finale fails to deliver any satisfying payoff.
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40This serious if assaultively stylish meditation on faith uses traditional elements of religion-based horror in a way that's more innocent than calculating.
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38By the time the credits roll and a disclaimer informs us that there may, in fact, be a lost gospel of Jesus and that it is being suppressed by the Church, all we can think to say is, "Ah, shaudup!"
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What a bloody disappointment Stigmata is!
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38The scariest thing about this appalling and seemingly endless movie is that you paid for your ticket and now have to sit through it.
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38Busy, over-stylized mess of a movie.
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38Repeated lapses in continuity and common sense.
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30A leaden exercise in what can go wrong when movies attempt to explore mysterious forces with dated special effects and easy symbolism...a soggy mess.
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30Despite exposition delivered so redundantly and witlessly you think you're in a Kaplan class, Stigmata manages to be incoherent.
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30If a movie is going to be so totally derivative, it should at least do a better job of it.
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30Can anyone but a lapsed Catholic possibly be interested in this unpleasant, anti-Papist creepshow?
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30A vicious anti-Catholic diatribe disguised as an audition tape for MTV.
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25Tom Lazarus and Rick Ramage should be ashamed to have written such nonsense.
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20An incomprehensible mess.
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20A better title for this flick might have been Astigmatism: Nothing ever comes into focus long enough ... to deliver even the faintest sense of fright.
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20There should be a place in hell for hacks who turn out derivative terror trash and then pretend they're doing an important investigative piece on Vatican corruption.
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20Lurches on for the better part of two hours with a ludicrous plot and even worse dialogue, interspersed with what look like excerpts from a music video made by some naughty Catholic-school graduates.
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20(Patricia Arquette's) irritated reactions to her dire situation have all the force of a pet owner's whiny complaints when her feline refuses to use the cat box.
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20Save yourself from this mess.
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16A crude, silly supernatural thriller.
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0What is bloody and full of holes?
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0The only question audiences are likely to be asking their higher power in the wake of viewing the film is, "What the fuck?"
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Positive: 14 out of 17
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Mixed: 1 out of 17
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Negative: 2 out of 17