Critics Scoreboard
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Average Critic Score:
62
(36 sources)
62
(36 sources)
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91
Entertainment Weekly
It's not every day you get to see a movie that begins in satire and ends in reverence, but then, for Kevin Smith, they may ultimately be the same thing. Read Full Review » -
90
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90
Mr. Showbiz
One of those special movies whose freshness and vitality are so bounteously infectious, your humble reviewer wishes everyone had the pleasure of discovering it brand-new and undescribed. Read Full Review » -
88
Chicago Sun-Times
If the film is less than perfect, it is because Smith is too much in love with his dialogue. Smith is a gifted comic writer who loves paradox, rhetoric and unexpected zingers from the blind side. Read Full Review » -
80
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80
Salon.com
Kevin Smith's comic-religious fantasy turns out to be the sweetest hot-potato movie imaginable. Read Full Review » -
78
Austin Chronicle
One of the most intelligent, engaging, and gut-bustingly funny revelations to come along in a while. Read Full Review » -
75
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75
Charlotte Observer
A scathing, scurrilous, sometimes silly but often searching comedy about the nature of faith in the 21st century. Read Full Review » -
75
New York Daily News
A raunchy, irreverent, generally hilarious sendup of ritual and papal decree. Read Full Review » -
75
San Francisco Examiner
Dogma' is Kevin Smith's fourth film and it looks like his first but I'm not ready to quit him -- there's a landmark in him. I just wish the crafty, raucous Dogma was it. Read Full Review » -
75
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75
Boston Globe
Has that rarest of qualities in movies that think of themselves as religious. I'm talking about the vision thing. And the ability to make morality entertaining. Read Full Review » -
75
Baltimore Sun
Suffused with a sophomoric sensibility that belies its more serious underpinnings. Read Full Review » -
70
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70
The New York Times
Smith makes a big, gutsy leap into questions of faith and religion. He miraculously emerges with his humor intact and his wings unsinged. Read Full Review » -
70
Film.com
Smith has crammed the film with enough genuinely funny moments and insightful bits to make it well worth seeing. Read Full Review » -
70
LA Weekly
A profession of faith, made with the confident disrespect of a true believer. Read Full Review » -
70
Dallas Observer
Smith has fashioned a complex, contemporary Bible epic on his own terms. By turns crafty and clunky, pious and profane, it's clearly a labor of love. Read Full Review » -
63
New York Post
Kevin Smith's attempt to combine sketchy low comedy with long-winded theological speculation results in a mostly unfunny and occasionally tedious mess. Read Full Review » -
63
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63
Miami Herald
As funny as a lot of the film is, Dogma remains as frustratingly uneven as the rest of Smith's work. Read Full Review » -
63
Chicago Tribune
Smith's strongest suit is writing dialogue that slips smart insights in between pop-culture references and raunchy language. Read Full Review » -
63
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60
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60
TV Guide
Say what you will about (Smith's) sense of humor, genuine faith is rare enough in popular culture to make any sighting worthy of note. Read Full Review » -
58
Portland Oregonian
Dotted with real laughs and held together by some solid acting, but it's built of a fairly flaccid narrative and some really amateurish sequences. Read Full Review » -
50
Film.com
A surprisingly adult exploration of religion refracted, as always, through (Smith's) insistently pop-culture kaleidoscope. Read Full Review » -
50
Newsweek
As preposterous as the movie gets, it's clearly reveling in its own hokiness. Read Full Review » -
50
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42
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Smith has badly overextended his modest filmmaking gifts. Read Full Review » -
40
Washington Post
For a while, the film is screamingly funny, but the further it goes, the more muddled the narrative becomes. Read Full Review » -
40
Film.com
(Smith) seems out of his depth in this talky, rambling religious satire. Read Full Review » -
40
Variety
A very vulgar pro-faith comedy rather than a sacrilegious goof, Dogma is an extraordinarily uneven film. Read Full Review » -
30
Chicago Reader
If you're an 11-year-old boy at heart, this is undoubtedly even better than the pile of dinosaur shit in Jurassic Park. Read Full Review » -
30
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