It's hard not to be charmed by the seamless combination of high and low humor in this script.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 27, 2023

Dogma is both one of the worst movies ever made and also one of the best.

| May 20, 2023

a rare satirical blockbuster

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 13, 2022

For the record, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck are bad actors.

| Dec 9, 2021

Smith finds exactly the right pitch between the cogent religious referencing required to drive the narrative versus sending most of that religiosity up.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 5, 2018

It's too bad Smith's trademark humor got in the way, because while the film definitely has its flaws, there's no denying that it also had the ability to serve as an intelligent debate about religion.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 18, 2008

The true target of the film is not religion but religious dogma ...

| Jul 7, 2008

A lighthearted, determinedly independent romp.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 19, 2008

A very vulgar pro-faith comedy rather than a sacrilegious goof, Dogma is an extraordinarily uneven film that significant cutting might be able to transform into a playable one.

Full Review | Mar 19, 2008

Make no mistake, Kevin Smith's talky, farcical comedy of cosmic errors is clever. But it's clever in a deeply juvenile way.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 19, 2008

I couldn't care less whether Smith's metaphysical conceits about the war between Good and Evil are those of a devout believer or an atheist. The bottom line is that they're puerile.

| Mar 19, 2008

I wonder if anyone in the Catholic Church has actually seen the film, because it is indeed quite the opposite. It may be slightly mocking, but in the end, “Dogma” is a delightfully reverential film about faith and what it means to truly believe in God.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 18, 2007

What you hear throughout "Dogma," liberally peppered with the usual prankish profanities, is Kevin Smith having a conversation with himself about his faith.

| Original Score: B | Jul 30, 2007

Writer-Director Kevin Smith keeps getting better.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 14, 2007

Dogma is more strained than funny.

| Apr 27, 2007

It's push-the-envelope coarse, thematically ambitious, and -- most dangerously -- self-consciously respectful and thoughtful on matters of faith and religion.

| Apr 6, 2006

Too talky, too fond of in-jokes, too caught up (especially during the dismally weak climax) in its crass comic-strip ethos, and not, finally, as funny, subversive or thought-provoking as it would like to be.

| Jan 26, 2006

At their best, his verbal exercises are pyrotechnical, at worst, logorrheic.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 16, 2005

It is thoughtful and funny but less than satisfying. Smith took on a bit too much, but I laud the effort.

| Original Score: B- | Apr 9, 2005

a surprisingly tender and humane movie that seems touchingly confident of God's sense of humor and infinite patience

Full Review | Original Score: B | Jan 17, 2005