Stigmata
Metascore
28 out of 100

Generally unfavorable reviews - based on 31 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 31
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 31
  3. Negative: 20 out of 31
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  1. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Jack Mathews
    38
    By 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!"
  2. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Rod Dreher
    38
    What a bloody disappointment Stigmata is!
  3. USA Today
    Reviewed by: Andy Seiler
    38
    The scariest thing about this appalling and seemingly endless movie is that you paid for your ticket and now have to sit through it.
  4. Baltimore Sun
    Reviewed by: Ann Hornaday
    38
    Busy, over-stylized mess of a movie.
  5. Charlotte Observer
    Reviewed by: Lawrence Toppman
    38
    Repeated lapses in continuity and common sense.
  6. Salon.com
    Reviewed by: Mary Elizabeth Williams
    30
    A leaden exercise in what can go wrong when movies attempt to explore mysterious forces with dated special effects and easy symbolism...a soggy mess.
  7. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Michael Atkinson
    30
    Despite exposition delivered so redundantly and witlessly you think you're in a Kaplan class, Stigmata manages to be incoherent.
  8. Dallas Observer
    Reviewed by: Andy Klein
    30
    If a movie is going to be so totally derivative, it should at least do a better job of it.
  9. Film.com
    Reviewed by: Tom Keogh
    30
    Can anyone but a lapsed Catholic possibly be interested in this unpleasant, anti-Papist creepshow?
  10. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Stephen Hunter
    30
    A vicious anti-Catholic diatribe disguised as an audition tape for MTV.
  11. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Barbara Shulgasser
    25
    Tom Lazarus and Rick Ramage should be ashamed to have written such nonsense.
  12. Mr. Showbiz
    Reviewed by: Justine Elias
    20
    An incomprehensible mess.
  13. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Paul Malcolm
    20
    A better title for this flick might have been Astigmatism: Nothing ever comes into focus long enough ... to deliver even the faintest sense of fright.
  14. Rolling Stone
    Reviewed by: Peter Travers
    20
    There 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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  15. Film.com
    Reviewed by: Moira Macdonald
    20
    Lurches 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.
  16. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Stephen Holden
    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.
  17. Newsweek
    Reviewed by: Jane Hogan
    20
    Save yourself from this mess.
  18. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Lisa Schwarzbaum
    16
    A crude, silly supernatural thriller.
  19. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Bob Graham
    0
    What is bloody and full of holes?
  20. Austin Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Marc Savlov
    0
    The 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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User Score
7.6 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 30 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 14 out of 17
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 17
  3. Negative: 2 out of 17
  1. Nazgulero
    0
    I honestly do not see how anybody can enjoy this. The story is ok, it could be really good, if it weren't for the disgusting and nauseating cinematography. Freakish looking people, ADD/ADHD style editing, it looks like a LSD trip clip made for MTV. I always wonder what the life of directors looks like who make these films. They cannot possibly be normal and functioning people. Otherwise they would not be able to come up with this superweird crap.… Full Review »
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