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Sarah Silverman: Jesus is Magic

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Sarah Silverman: Jesus is Magic (2005)

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Reviews Counted: 84 Fresh: 54  Rotten:30 Average Rating: 6.1/10
 
Consensus: Silverman's brand of humor is dirty, offensive, and, judging from this film, very, very funny. Silverman's brand of humor is dirty, offensive, and, judging from this film, very, very funny. more
 
Rated: Not Rated
Runtime: 72 mins
Theatrical Release: Nov 11, 2005 Limited
Box Office: $0
Synopsis:
Sarah Silverman is a comedienne who doesn't just court controversy, she positively wallows in it. Memorably putting in a brief yet discomforting and highly memorable appearance in THE ARISTOCRATS, Silverman offers viewers the chance to witness her stand-up act with JESUS IS MAGIC. The... [More]
Sarah Silverman is a comedienne who doesn't just court controversy, she positively wallows in it. Memorably putting in a brief yet discomforting and highly memorable appearance in THE ARISTOCRATS, Silverman offers viewers the chance to witness her stand-up act with JESUS IS MAGIC. The show itself was taped in 2004, and is interjected with off-set skits, songs, and general goofing around from Silverman and her friends in the comedy world. As soon as Silverman takes to the stage, sacred cows come tumbling down, and continue to do so throughout the set. Race, sex, class, 9/11, rape, the Holocaust--no topic is considered untouchable for the seemingly fearless Silverman. Amazingly, she also manages to come across as likeable and even prone to bouts of insecurity ("I just want you to think I'm thin," she pleads at one point), which undoubtedly makes some of the stronger material much easier to swallow. Director Liam Lynch, who has worked with Tenacious D, and made a memorable foray into the music industry with his song "United States of Whatever," keeps the visual trickery to a minimum, simply shooting Silverman with a basic crew and including a few swooping shots over the heads of the audience. The skits peppered throughout bring cult TV shows such as KIDS IN THE HALL and MR. SHOW to mind (Bob Odenkirk from the latter makes a brief appearance), and nicely break up the stand-up routine. Silverman never explains her humor or feels the need to put in a disclaimer to make everything seem okay, which is a device that not only makes some of the laughter a guilt-edged pleasure, it also forces the audience to think about many of the issues she is tackling, making Silverman's act enjoyable, unique, and deliciously funny. [Less]

Genre: Comedies

Starring: Sarah Silverman, Bob Odenkirk, Mark Williams

Director: Liam Lynch
Screenwriter: Sarah Silverman

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Jun 6, 2006

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There is a healthy release to be had in this address of our shared, so-often-facile Hallmark-card reverence. Humor can be the best weapon after all.

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03/01/07 03:36 AM
David Noh
Film Journal International
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Silverman fails at what she does not because she says dirty things, but because that's all she says, and she's not very good at it.

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06/22/06 01:23 PM
David Cornelius
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Silverman's raunchy pretend comedy act can't sustain its energy and humor.

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06/13/06 01:51 PM
Dennis Schwartz
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05/12/06 03:15 AM
Bob Grimm
Sacramento News & Review
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A montagem é caótica e as seqüências extra-palco são, em sua maioria, fraquíssimas. Ainda assim, a forma aparentemente inocente com que Silverman interpreta seu texto politicamente incorreto compensam estas falhas.

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04/26/06 11:54 PM
Pablo Villaca
Cinema em Cena
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Here, in her own vehicle, Silverman veers from the faux-naive mockery of minorities into an oncoming collision with white liberal guilt and condescension . . . stand-up [that] makes you sit and think.

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04/06/06 02:52 PM
Brian Gibson
Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Canada)
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Whether you think it's awesome or awful, there's no denying that 'Jesus is Magic' is sheer Silverman, a portrait of the artist as a young maniac.

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02/23/06 06:12 AM
James Sanford
Kalamazoo Gazette
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Silverman is clearly in the line of such fearless comedy forebears as Lenny Bruce and Richard Pryor. As she says at the end of this mostly hilarious movie, 'I don't care if you think I'm racist. I just want you to think I'm thin.'

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02/07/06 11:27 AM
Kurt Loder
MTV
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... her jokes ... are often obliteratingly funny in themselves, they are compounded and deepened by the disconnect between the blackness of their substance and the pretty mouth that utters them

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01/13/06 09:30 AM
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
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If 'Jesus is Magic then God is, without a doubt, a Woman: Sarah Silverman.

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01/01/06 03:15 AM
David N. Butterworth
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(Silverman) finds what's funny about an uncomfortable situation, then plunges past the point of good taste to end on shocking instead of entertaining.

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12/21/05 10:16 AM
Sean O'Connell
Charlotte Weekly
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Sarah Silverman is the third rail of American comedy.

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12/17/05 03:47 AM
Duane Dudek
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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Jesus Is Magic is full-scale offensive; don't say you weren't warned.

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12/16/05 04:57 PM
Jack Garner
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
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She's like a child who's discovered that adults can be disturbed by dirty words and runs through her repertoire at Mommy's cocktail party.

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12/16/05 12:48 PM
Lawrence Toppman
Charlotte Observer
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Barely 70 minutes, but any more of her routine might drive audiences either to the showers or to church.

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12/15/05 03:26 PM
Thomas Delapa
Boulder Weekly
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I wouldn't take my mother, but this stand-up movie is pretty funny.

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12/15/05 01:39 PM
Bill Muller
Arizona Republic
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12/11/05 03:16 AM
Marjorie Baumgarten
Austin Chronicle
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As expected, whether you find any of this funny depends on your tolerance for outrageously and politically incorrect humor.

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12/10/05 03:59 AM
Jeff Vice
Deseret News, Salt Lake City
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It's [Silverman's] hysterically wrongheaded standup persona, showcased in the one-woman show Jesus Is Magic, that's been twisting politically correct writers into descriptive knots.

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12/09/05 03:43 PM
M.E. Russell
Oregonian
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Silverman comes across as a racist, callous diva in Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic.

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12/09/05 03:36 PM
Bruce Westbrook
Houston Chronicle
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