Stigmata 1999

Critics score:
22 / 100

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Tom Long, Detroit News: A bloody mess! Read more

Philip Wuntch, Dallas Morning News: The movie definitely needs cinematic first aid. Read more

Barbara Shulgasser, Chicago Tribune: Tom Lazarus and Rick Ramage should be ashamed to have written such nonsense! Read more

Stephen Holden, New York Times: At first seems to be about the Second Coming but turns out to be a half-baked anticlerical screed. Read more

Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: What Stigmata suffers from is a bad case of late-1990s moviemaking. That is, it prefers sensationalism to making sense. Read more

Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: A shameless guilty pleasure! Read more

Jeff Millar, Houston Chronicle: Unless you are an admirer of splicing, production design and cinematography, there's not much point in seeing the film. Read more

Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: A derivative, pretentious rock video with a half-cocked, quote-unquote religious melodrama. Read more

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James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Stigmata is an unusually intelligent and original thriller. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Stigmata is possibly the funniest movie ever made about Catholicism. Read more

Mary Elizabeth Williams, Salon.com: A leaden exercise in what can go wrong when movies attempt to explore mysterious forces with dated special effects and easy symbolism. Read more

Bob Graham, San Francisco Chronicle: Half-baked mess! Read more

Jeff Strickler, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Read more

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Desson Thomson, Washington Post: Is there an eighth deadly sin called 'narcissistic direction'? Read more