'Stigmata': No Redeeming Value From: The Washington Post | Date: September 10, 1999| Author: Stephen Hunter | Copyright 1999 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

"Stigmata" doesn't need a critic; it needs an exorcist. If ever a movie were possessed it's this one, though not by Satan so much as by other ancient demons: too much ambition, too much style, not enough story and nothing nice to say.

It turns out to be a vicious anti-Catholic diatribe disguised as an audition tape for MTV. The young director Rupert Wainwright clearly hopes this gets him a Madonna vid, and that's why he pulls out all the stops. Watching it is like sticking your head in...

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