1999 · comedy · satire · fantasy
Dogma
Directed by Kevin Smith2h 10m1999
An abortion clinic worker with a special heritage is called upon to save the existence of humanity from being negated by two renegade angels trying to exploit a loophole and reenter Heaven.
Our read: Dogma (1999) reads as a warm, breathless, inventive comedy · satire · fantasy entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, breathless, measured comedy / satire, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- warm
- brisk
- inventive
- funny
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“You want foul-mouthed theological satire with Smith dialogue and big questions.”
Skip it tonight — Blasphemous jokes and comic-book religion will offend or exhaust you.
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