Dogma Critic Reviews

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Entertainment Weekly | Owen GleibermanAdd Critic to Favorites

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 the full review

Rolling Stone | Peter TraversAdd Critic to Favorites

The first commandment of Dogma: Thou shalt not stop laughing.Read the full review

Chicago Sun-Times | Roger EbertAdd Critic to Favorites

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 the full review

Boston Globe | Jay CarrAdd Critic to Favorites

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 the full review

San Francisco Chronicle | Mick LaSalleAdd Critic to Favorites

Mature, thoughtful and occasionally dazzling.Read the full review

Los Angeles Times | Kenneth TuranAdd Critic to Favorites

A raucous, profane but surprisingly endearing piece of work.Read the full review

The New York Times | Elvis MitchellAdd Critic to Favorites

Smith makes a big, gutsy leap into questions of faith and religion. He miraculously emerges with his humor intact and his wings unsinged.Read the full review

USA Today | Susan WloszczynaAdd Critic to Favorites

There is a keen intellect behind this devoutly defiant fable.Read the full review

Slate | David EdelsteinAdd Critic to Favorites

The first truly countercultural apocalypse fantasy.Read the full review

Washington Post | Rita KempleyAdd Critic to Favorites

For a while, the film is screamingly funny, but the further it goes, the more muddled the narrative becomes.Read the full review

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