Dogma

You either go with this movie's sense of humor or you don't. Kevin Smith, a pretty proud Catholic apparently, wrote this screenplay as a way to sort out his feelings about Catholicism at a time when he wasn't too enamored with the Catholic Church. Despite a lot of criticism and protests from Catholics at the time of its release, "Dogma" is really more the product of someone who clearly believes in the basic ideology of Catholicism than anything else. As a theist who finds Abrahamic religions fascinating but doesn't choose to belong to any specific organized religion I found "Dogma" had a fair bit to say and did so quite well given this is a movie featuring a rubber poop monster. It's a silly movie from start to finish and loses itself towards the end but the script is for the most part quite good. The cast are all solid and Smith's work as director is functional as always given that he's essentially just recording people's conversations for the film's running time and attempting any artistry wouldn't suit the movies he's making.

7/10