Movie Review

STIGMATA (1999)

EW's GRADE
D-

Details Rated: R; Genres: Horror, Suspense; With: Patricia Arquette, Gabriel Byrne and Various Artists

Cross a derivative, pretentious rock video with a half-cocked, quote-unquote religious melodrama tricked out with Madonna (Louise Ciccone)- influenced iconography and you've still got to throw in ecumenical wooden acting before you can reach the shallow depths of this silly supernatural thriller. Patricia Arquette appears anesthetized as a smoking, drinking, shagging Pittsburgh hairdresser who begins displaying mysterious wounds. D-

Originally posted Sep 24, 1999 Published in issue #504 Sep 24, 1999 Order article reprints
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