Critics Scoreboard
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Average Critic Score:
28
(31 sources)
28
(31 sources)
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90
TNT RoughCut
Ranks with the best of the bunch, given its spooky storyline that fuses religion with down-to-earth characters. Read Full Review » -
67
Portland Oregonian
Less and less a skillfully creepy B-movie and more and more a plea for ecumenical reform. Read Full Review » -
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. Read Full Review » -
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. Read Full Review » -
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. Read Full Review » -
50
Chicago Sun-Times
Possibly the funniest movie ever made about Catholicism. It confuses the phenomenon of stigmata with satanic possession. Read Full Review » -
50
Miami Herald
A garish clashing of sacred images and bloody semihorror, this is a movie that defines the category: interesting failure. Read Full Review » -
50
Philadelphia Inquirer
Begins with a scene of mass repentance, but the real sin here is a profligate waste of talent. Read Full Review » -
42
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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. Read Full Review » -
40
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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. Read Full Review » -
38
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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!" Read Full Review » -
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38
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30
Film.com
Can anyone but a lapsed Catholic possibly be interested in this unpleasant, anti-Papist creepshow? Read Full Review » -
30
Village Voice
Despite exposition delivered so redundantly and witlessly you think you're in a Kaplan class, Stigmata manages to be incoherent. Read Full Review » -
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. Read Full Review » -
30
Dallas Observer
If a movie is going to be so totally derivative, it should at least do a better job of it. Read Full Review » -
30
Washington Post
A vicious anti-Catholic diatribe disguised as an audition tape for MTV. Read Full Review » -
25
Chicago Tribune
Tom Lazarus and Rick Ramage should be ashamed to have written such nonsense. Read Full Review » -
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. Read Full Review » -
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. Read Full Review » -
20
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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. Read Full Review » -
20
Film.com
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. Read Full Review » -
20
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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?" Read Full Review » -
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