STIGMATA (1999). Rupert Wainwright's film is almost terrifying when it delves into the nature of divinity, but ultimately Jesus comes out looking like a talk-show guest plugging a new-age self-help book. Simple Pittsburgh hairstylist Frankie Paige (Patricia Arquette) wakes up in the ER with spike wounds through her wrist and later gets flogged by invisible assailants in the subway. Gabriel Byrne plays the thankless role of the voice of reason as Father Andrew Kiernan, a Vatican specialist in debunking miracles who meets his match in more ways than one in Arquette's unwilling stigmatic. Unfortunately, he doesn't uncover the fraudulence behind this picture.

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