The Boston Phoenix
Review from issue: March 2 - 9, 2000

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One star

Stigmata

(MGM)

Rupert Wainwright's film pits simple Pittsburgh hairstylist Patricia Arquette, who wakes up in the ER with spike wounds through her wrist, against Gabriel Byrne playing the voice of reason as a Vatican specialist in debunking miracles. Unfortunately, he doesn't uncover the fraudulence behind this picture. Stigmata is too dimwitted and confused to be blasphemous -- the only god it worships is bad taste.
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