Dogma
First screened in March 2020
Director: Kevin Smith. Cast: Linda Fiorentino, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Chris Rock, Salma Hayek, Alan Rickman, Jason Mewes, Kevin Smith, Jason Lee, George Carlin, Bud Cort, Jeff Anderson, Dwight Ewell, Janeane Garofalo, Brian O'Halloran, Guinevere Turner, Barret Hackney, Jared Pfennigwerth, Kitao Sakurai, Alanis Morissette. Screenplay: Kevin Smith.

Twitter Capsule: Credit to the huge leap in Smith's ambitions, but his techniques and sensibilities remain too immature to hit these targets.

VOR:   You know, risk can be undermined by easy, lazy humor, and originality can be dimmed by love of one's own voice and mythos. Still, gutsy and odd.



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Not yet reviewed in full. Grade: D+


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