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Stigmata

1999

Rupert Wainwright

Patricia Arquette, Gabriel Byrne, Jonathan Pryce, Nia Long ...

5.7

17,200

Horror. Mystery Priest Father Andrew Kiernan from the Vatican is sent to Sao Paulo, Brazil to investigate the appearance of the face of the Virgin Mary on the side of a building. While there he hears of a statue of the Virgin Mary bleeding tears in a small town outside of the city. Meanwhile, Frankie Paige, a young woman in the U.S. begins to show signs of stigmata, the wounds of Christ. The priest from the Vatican links up with her and cares for her ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"Possibly the funniest movie ever made about Catholicism. It confuses the phenomenon of stigmata with satanic possession (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	David Rooney Variety	"Even [its] guilty pleasures soon pall under the dulling effect of a murky, rather uneventful scenario."	NEG
United States	Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times	"A late-'90s MTV version of 'The Exorcist'"	POS
United States	Peter Travers 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"	NEG
United States	Lisa Schwarzbaum Entertainment Weekly	"A crude, silly supernatural thriller"	NEG

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