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starstarstarstar Owen Gleiberman - EW
starstarstarstar Roger Ebert - Chicago Sun-Times
starstarstar Rob Blackwelder - SPLICED Online
starstarstar Margaret McGurk - Cincinnati Enquirer
starstarstar Kenneth Turan - LA Times
starstarstar Janet Maslin - NY Times
starstarstar Ernest Hardy - Film.com
starstarstar Mark Caro - Chicago Tribune
starstarstar Mark Burger - Winston-Salem Journal
starstarstar Jonathan Foreman - NY Post
starstarstar James Berardinelli - ReelViews
starstarstar Desson Howe - Washington Post
starstarstar Chris Vognar - Dallas Morning News
starstar Jeff Vice - Deseret News
star Susan Stark - Detroit News

A deliriously audacious, one-of-a-kind satirical passion play that’s as rascally in its glee as anything in Mad magazine, yet it’s also a searching and obsessive meditation on faith in our time

- Owen Gleiberman

The chaotic, brutally immature Dogma deserves a short, narrow path to oblivion

- Susan Stark

Dogma

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Raunchy religious satire about two fallen angels (Ben Affleck and Matt Damon) who think they have found a loophole that will let them back into heaven. George Carlin, Linda Fiorentino, Salma Hayek, Jason Lee, Jason Mewes, Alan Rickman, Chris Rock, Bud Cort, Alanis Morissette, Kevin Smith, Janeane Garofalo. Director: Kevin Smith (1999, R)

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