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Stigmata (1999)

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Reviews Counted:89

Fresh:19

Rotten:70

Average Rating:4.1/10

Consensus: The story is unconvincing and the acting is weak.

Runtime: 1 hr 42 mins

Genre: Horror/Suspense

Synopsis: Frankie Paige (Patricia Arquette) is in her twenties. She works as a hairdresser. She has a boyfriend. There are a hundred other girls like Frankie Paige within a mile radius of her apartment. ...

Frankie Paige (Patricia Arquette) is in her twenties. She works as a hairdresser. She has a boyfriend. There are a hundred other girls like Frankie Paige within a mile radius of her apartment.

But unlike all of them, things happen to Frankie -- terrible things she can’t understand or explain. And though she has tried everything to make them stop, they’re just getting worse. She goes to doctors and psychologists, but even they can’t answer the most important question: why her?

At the darkest moment of one of her episodes, a chance encounter with a local priest is caught on tape and the frightening implications of the incident drive the Vatican to send their own investigator, Andrew Kiernan (Gabriel Byrne). Confronted with the powerful force that has taken control of Frankie, Kiernan immediately recognizes the true danger she is in and he must search his own soul for the strength to save her life, even if it goes against everything he believes. [More]

Starring: Patricia Arquette, Gabriel Byrne, Jonathan Pryce, Nia Long

Starring: Patricia Arquette, Gabriel Byrne, Jonathan Pryce, Nia Long

Director: Rupert Wainwright

Director: Rupert Wainwright
Screenwriter: Tom Lazarus
Producer: Frank Mancuso
Composer: Billy Corgan

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The latest Exorcist rip-off Stigmata opens with a scene of a Virgin Mary statue that bleeds from the eyes. During Over the course of its 102 minutes, the painful-to-watch movie lets you know just how that statue feels.

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01/01/00
Todd Anthony
Todd Anthony
South Florida Sun-Sentinel

Worth a look, even if you walk away a bit offended by the viscera and blasphemy it depicts.

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01/01/00
Ted Anthony
Ted Anthony
Associated Press
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the picture had it's moments, I had my share of chills and as I said ... good point.

Full Review Source: Hollywood Report Card | comment Comment
01/01/00
Ross Anthony
Ross Anthony
Hollywood Report Card

Wildly overproduced, much of it is unintentionally funny.

Full Review Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer | comment Comment
01/01/00
William Arnold
William Arnold
Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Pone el dedo en la llaga al cuestionar a los líderes religiosos católicos

Full Review Source: Moviola | comment Comment
01/01/00
Jorge Avila Andrade
Jorge Avila Andrade
Moviola

Flimsy and often stupid.

Full Review Source: Sacramento Bee | comment Comment
01/01/00
Joe Baltake
Joe Baltake
Sacramento Bee

Stigmata is an unusually intelligent and original thriller.

Full Review Source: ReelViews | comment Comment
01/01/00
James Berardinelli
James Berardinelli
ReelViews
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An entertaining and eerie adventure!

Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | comment Comment
01/01/00
Athan Bezaitis
Athan Bezaitis
Filmcritic.com

A film this dramatically inept doesn't test your faith in the Papacy nearly as much as it troubles your faith in movies.

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01/01/00
Steven Boone
Steven Boone
Citysearch

Liberally ladled piles of mumbo jumbo!

Full Review Source: Orlando Weekly | comment Comment
01/01/00
Philip Booth
Philip Booth
Orlando Weekly

Even after watching Stigmata, I'll be damned, so to speak, if I can explain it!

Full Review Source: Orlando Sentinel | comment Comment
01/01/00
Jay Boyar
Jay Boyar
Orlando Sentinel

A supernatural thriller about a Vatican conspiracy to suppress an Aramaic text that could shake the foundations of the church.

Full Review Source: Spirituality and Practice | comment Comment
03/04/02
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Spirituality and Practice

All the Aramaic in the world can't save it from its own pounding slickness.

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01/01/00
Jay Carr
Jay Carr
Boston Globe
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The new Rupert Wainwright music video . . . I mean film.

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01/01/00
Shay Casey
Shay Casey
rec.arts.movies.reviews

Surprisingly serious and intelligent food for thought about faith and supernatural phenomena.

Full Review Source: TheMovieReport.com | comment Comment
01/01/00
Michael Dequina
Michael Dequina
TheMovieReport.com

The story makes increasingly little sense as it unspools!

Full Review Source: New York Post | comment Comment
01/01/00
Rod Dreher
Rod Dreher
New York Post
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Why make a movie bound to insult someone else's faith? Has Hollywood run out of ideas that simply insult our intelligence?

Full Review Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | comment Comment
01/01/00
Duane Dudek
Duane Dudek
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Stigmata is possibly the funniest movie ever made about Catholicism.

Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times | comment Comment
01/01/00
Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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Not only does Stigmata revel in anti-Vatican jabs that will offend religious-minded people, it goes over the top with its bloody Exorcist-style story.

Full Review Source: Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY) | comment Comment
06/28/04
Judith Egerton
Judith Egerton
Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY)

Melodramatic junk. It's for what you might call gnostic multiplex sheep, those of little faith but much gullibility.

Full Review Source: San Diego Union-Tribune | comment Comment
01/01/00
David Elliott
David Elliott
San Diego Union-Tribune
 
 
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