
A priest from the Vatican is sent to Sao Paulo, Brazil to investigate the appearance of the face of the Virgin Mary on the side of a building. While there he hears of a statue of the Virgin Mary bleeding tears in a small town outside of the city. Meanwhile, a young woman in the U.S. begins to show signs of stigmata, the wounds of Christ. The priest from the Vatican links up with her and cares for her as she is increasingly afflicted by the stigmata. Her ranting and raving fin... (Full plot summary below)
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A priest from the Vatican is sent to Sao Paulo, Brazil to investigate the appearance of the face of the Virgin Mary on the side of a building. While there he hears of a statue of the Virgin Mary bleeding tears in a small town outside of the city. Meanwhile, a young woman in the U.S. begins to show signs of stigmata, the wounds of Christ. The priest from the Vatican links up with her and cares for her as she is increasingly afflicted by the stigmata. Her ranting and raving finally begins to make sense to the priest who starts to question what his religion has stood for for the last 1900 years.
Leave your thoughts about Stigmata.
| TNT RoughCutMatt KelseyLess and less a skillfully creepy B-movie and more and more a plea for ecumenical reform. |
| TheMovieReport.comMichael DequinaSurprisingly serious and intelligent food for thought about faith and supernatural phenomena. |
| San Francisco ExaminerWesley MorrisA more bone-chilling experience is trying to solve the mystery of whether Arquette, Gabriel Byrne, as the Vatican priest trying to save her, and Nia Long, as the best friend on stand-by, needed to be in a hit this badly. |
| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzI don't see the story as an anti-religious film, as much as I saw it as a challenge to having one way of looking at religion. |
| Screen It!Jim JudyNot remotely scary, unless one considers the direction, script, most of the acting! |
| Boston GlobeJay CarrCould have been a classy thriller. But all the Aramaic in the world can't save it from its own pounding slickness. |
| TV Guide MagazineKen FoxFilled 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. |
| Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranEssentially 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. |
| Film Freak CentralWalter ChawStigmata is a beautiful disaster: deeply felt and faux-profound at once and, like all great Theater of the Absurd, able to highlight the extra-textual consequence of that tension. |
| News & Observer (Raleigh, NC)Todd LotheryUnless you have an unquenchable desire to see blood streaming down Patricia Arquette's face over and over, there's no reason to see Stigmata. |