| 90 |
TNT RoughCut
Matt Kelsey
Ranks with the best of the bunch, given its spooky storyline that fuses religion with down-to-earth characters.
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| 67 |
Portland Oregonian
Less and less a skillfully creepy B-movie and more and more a plea for ecumenical reform.
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| 63 |
Boston Globe
Could 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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| 60 |
TV Guide
Filled 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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| 60 |
Los Angeles Times
Essentially 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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| 50 |
Chicago Sun-Times
Possibly the funniest movie ever made about Catholicism. It confuses the phenomenon of stigmata with satanic possession.
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| 50 |
Miami Herald
A garish clashing of sacred images and bloody semihorror, this is a movie that defines the category: interesting failure.
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| 50 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
Begins with a scene of mass repentance, but the real sin here is a profligate waste of talent.
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| 42 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
There's not an authentically scary moment in it.
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| 40 |
Chicago Reader
This 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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| 40 |
Variety
David Rooney
A fiery, convoluted finale fails to deliver any satisfying payoff.
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| 38 |
USA Today
The 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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| 38 |
New York Post
Rod Dreher
What a bloody disappointment Stigmata is!
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| 38 |
New York Daily News
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!"
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| 38 |
Baltimore Sun
Busy, over-stylized mess of a movie.
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| 38 |
Charlotte Observer
Repeated lapses in continuity and common sense.
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| 30 |
Film.com
Can anyone but a lapsed Catholic possibly be interested in this unpleasant, anti-Papist creepshow?
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| 30 |
Village Voice
Despite exposition delivered so redundantly and witlessly you think you're in a Kaplan class, Stigmata manages to be incoherent.
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| 30 |
Salon.com
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.
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| 30 |
Dallas Observer
If a movie is going to be so totally derivative, it should at least do a better job of it.
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| 30 |
Washington Post
A vicious anti-Catholic diatribe disguised as an audition tape for MTV.
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| 25 |
Chicago Tribune
Tom Lazarus and Rick Ramage should be ashamed to have written such nonsense.
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| 20 |
LA Weekly
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.
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| 20 |
Rolling Stone
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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| 20 |
Newsweek
Jane Hogan
Save yourself from this mess.
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| 20 |
The New York Times
(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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| 20 |
Film.com
Moira Macdonald
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.
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| 20 |
Mr. Showbiz
Justine Elias
An incomprehensible mess.
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| 16 |
Entertainment Weekly
A crude, silly supernatural thriller.
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| 0 |
Austin Chronicle
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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| 0 |
San Francisco Chronicle
What is bloody and full of holes?
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