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Stigmata

Play trailer Poster for Stigmata R Released Sep 10, 1999 1h 43m Mystery & Thriller Play Trailer Watchlist
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A young woman with no strong religious beliefs, Frankie Paige (Patricia Arquette) begins having strange and violent experiences, showing signs of the wounds that Jesus received when crucified. When the Vatican gets word of Frankie's situation, a high-ranking cardinal (Jonathan Pryce) requests that the Rev. Andrew Kiernan (Gabriel Byrne) investigate her case. Soon Kiernan realizes that very sinister forces are at work, and tries to rescue Frankie from the entity that is plaguing her.
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The story is unconvincing and the acting is weak.

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Rod Dreher New York Post The story makes increasingly little sense as it unspools! Rated: 1.5/4 Jan 1, 2000 Full Review Andy Seiler 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. Jan 1, 2000 Full Review Tom Long Detroit News A bloody mess! Rated: 1/4 Jan 1, 2000 Full Review Andy Greenwald Spin Masking incoherence with a barrage of stylized images, Wainwright makes a lot of noise and still manages to say nothing. Dec 28, 2022 Full Review Rob Gonsalves Rob's Movie Vault There’s hardly a laugh to be found in it unless you get sick of the relentless visionary anguish and start getting the giggles. Rated: C- Sep 2, 2022 Full Review Sean Collier Box Office Prophets If you enjoy ... editing that doesn't so much create jump scares as intrusive walls of displeasure, you'll get all that from Stigmata. Rated: 4/10 May 9, 2020 Full Review Read all reviews

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Lluvia A Confusing and convoluted. Very 90s. It’s kinda slow. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 08/18/25 Full Review Julianne G One of my favorite movies. It's was started me looking into the Nag hamaddi texts and Gnosticism. Something inside stirred in me. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 07/30/25 Full Review Maroun A I love this movie. I can't get enough watching it. I understand why most don't like it. People don't like very realistic movies. The message of the movie is very disturbing in my opinion. It says that every religion is born from a whore. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 12/10/24 Full Review renee the story line the movie is somehow very disturbing and illogical. the acting is extremely poor. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 02/28/24 Full Review Karma I I think we know some of the movie is a bit off, but if you read the lines in between the scenes, it can be deep. I love this movie; I think both Arquette and Byrne worked well together, they were believable. It has a spot on my favorite movies list. ~ ///=^} ~ Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/08/24 Full Review Justin T The film's picture looks ‘interesting', there are fast cuts and many visual effects. It seems like a typical nineties style at its best. Everything looked good but it could be seen as a little cheesy now. The sound was pretty good, not quite as good as I was hoping for though. The use of surround was what disappointed me. Still it was a nice and dynamic mix and certainly didn't affect the enjoyment of the film. It was a very modern film but the problem with that is that they date quickly. Still it is a funky and stylish movie with a charismatic person as the main character. It is similar to The Exorcist (1973) but more of a thriller and less of a horror. There are some good bits but nothing that is really scary. It's more the story and the characters that make it entertaining. Enjoyable movie that is a time capsule of the nineties and the mindset of people living into the new millennium. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/19/24 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis A young woman with no strong religious beliefs, Frankie Paige (Patricia Arquette) begins having strange and violent experiences, showing signs of the wounds that Jesus received when crucified. When the Vatican gets word of Frankie's situation, a high-ranking cardinal (Jonathan Pryce) requests that the Rev. Andrew Kiernan (Gabriel Byrne) investigate her case. Soon Kiernan realizes that very sinister forces are at work, and tries to rescue Frankie from the entity that is plaguing her.
Director
Rupert Wainwright
Producer
Frank Mancuso Jr.
Screenwriter
Tom Lazarus, Rick Ramage
Distributor
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corp., Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Production Co
FGM Entertainment, Metro Goldwyn Mayer
Rating
R
Genre
Mystery & Thriller
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Sep 10, 1999, Original
Release Date (Streaming)
Mar 26, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA)
$50.0M
Runtime
1h 43m
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