Movie Review for Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic

Summary: Expanded from Silvermanâ¿¿s successful stage show. Includes her live performances, along with musical numbers and additional new material. The film also features Bob Odenkirk, Brian Posehn and Laura Silverman.

                         Reviews of Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic
By Jurgen Fauth of About.com (7/0)
            After a while, the outrageousness becomes the norm and the punch lines, all revolving around sex ...

By Alan Dale of Blogcritics.org (7/0)
            [A] polluted oasis for refugees from 'positive,' heartwarming, family-friendly entertainment.

By Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times (7/0)
            A movie that filled me with an urgent desire to see Sarah Silverman in a different movie.

By Allison Benedikt of Chicago Tribune (7/0)
            Silverman throws her carefully crafted persona a proper, and hilarious, coming-out party.

By Jules Brenner of Cinema Signals (7/0)
            I admire her cunning wit, her sensual appeal, her satiric creativity, her canny technique, her se...

By Karina Montgomery of Cinerina (7/0)
            Forget your inner censor and dig her non-PC, non-cautious, network-unfriendly diatribe that twist...

                         Reviews of Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic
By Jeffrey M. Anderson of Combustible Celluloid (7/0)
            A quotable compendium of offensive remarks

By Robert Denerstein of Denver Rocky Mountain News (7/0)
            As a concert film, Jesus Is Magic proves totally lacking in electricity, and for me, even the fun...

By David Cornelius of eFilmCritic.com (7/0)
            Silverman fails at what she does not because she says dirty things, but because that's all she sa...

By Oz of eFilmCritic.com (7/0)
            Even if the only place "Jesus is Magic" ever shows up is on HBO, it's worth your time to check th...

By Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly (7/0)
            When she's on, Silverman, with her willingness to say anything, can be liberating: a bomb-tossing...

By Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com (7/0)
            Silverman is everything Margaret Cho used to be (and thinks she still is): socially observant, wi...

                         Reviews of Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic
By Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central (7/0)
            Lame.

By David Noh of Film Journal International (7/0)
            There is a healthy release to be had in this address of our shared, so-often-facile Hallmark-card...

By Pete Vonder Haar of Film Threat (6/1)
            Once you become accustomed to her material and begin to anticipate it, some of the shine comes of...

By Jesse Hassenger of filmcritic.com (7/0)
            a feature film presents the opportunity for something more freewheeling and creative than a succe...

By Eric Lurio of Greenwich Village Gazette (7/0)
             For the most part she gets away with it, but a lot of her jokes fall flat. I guess you have to b...

By Jeff Otto of IGN Movies (7/0)
            The magic is mostly missing from this Sarah show.

                         Reviews of Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic
By Carina Chocano of Los Angeles Times (7/0)
            She makes fun of bigotry by pretending to be a bigot; hypocrisy by pretending to be a hypocrite; ...

By Duane Dudek of Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (7/0)
            Sarah Silverman is the third rail of American comedy.

By Kurt Loder of MTV (7/0)
            Silverman is clearly in the line of such fearless comedy forebears as Lenny Bruce and Richard Pry...

By John Anderson of Newsday (7/0)
            The key to her delivery is about sly surprise, a 'did-she-really-say-what-I-think-she just-said' ...

By Dennis Schwartz of Ozus' World Movie Reviews (7/0)
            Silverman's raunchy pretend comedy act can't sustain its energy and humor.

By Jeremy C. Fox of Pajiba (7/0)
            Silverman’s comedy is “adult” in the usual sense — actually meaning juvenile — but it’s also adul...

                         Reviews of Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic
By Sean Burns of Philadelphia Weekly (7/0)
            An HBO special dragged kicking and screaming to (barely) feature length, it's a riot... but proba...

By Jon Popick of Planet Sick-Boy (7/0)
            Very, very funny, and very, very wrong.

By David N. Butterworth of rec.arts.movies.reviews (7/0)
            If 'Jesus is Magic then God is, without a doubt, a Woman: Sarah Silverman.

By David Nusair of Reel Film Reviews (7/0)
            ...unless one is already a follower of Silverman's work, Jesus is Magic isn't going to come off a...

By Kim Morgan of Reel.com (7/0)
            Silverman rarely reveals herself. She just reveals, often coquettishly, those naughty statements ...

By Laura Clifford of Reeling Reviews (7/0)
            If only "Jesus Is Magic" had stuck with the jokes...she should leave the musical comedy to fellow...

                         Reviews of Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic
By Sean Means of Salt Lake Tribune (7/0)
            The [film's] different strands cancel each other out, never letting Silverman's brand of subversi...

By Jean Lowerison of San Diego Metropolitan (7/0)
            Sarah Silverman is a lot of things -- young, pretty, thin, tasteless. But funny is not one of the...

By Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer (7/0)
            The big screen isn't the best venue for her "ain't I cute?" shtick and shock tactics... but Silve...

By Moira MacDonald of Seattle Times (7/0)
            Jesus Is Magic may be a bit too much for anyone but the most hardcore Silverman fan.

By Nick Schager of Slant Magazine (7/0)
            Not quite as raunchy, but twice as offensive, as The Aristocrats.

By David Edelstein of Slate (7/0)
            Silverman's onstage persona might be limited, but it's endlessly resonant.

                         Reviews of Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic
By Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone of TheMovieChicks.com (7/0)
            Sarah is sometimes very funny, sometimes flat, but definitely not for the easily offended.

By Tony Medley of tonymedley.com (7/0)
            The language and the points of view are disgusting. This is a film that is in such poor taste tha...

By Ken Fox of TV Guide's Movie Guide (7/0)
            Her material asks us to ask ourselves a few basic questions about comedy.

By J. Hoberman of Village Voice (7/0)
            Sarah Silverman's cartoon bunny rabbit smile could make her the poster child for orthodontia, but...

By Brian Gibson of Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Canada) (7/0)
            Here, in her own vehicle, Silverman veers from the faux-naive mockery of minorities into an oncom...

By Stephen Hunter of Washington Post (7/0)
            What she can do is make you laugh your tonsils out. The fact that she shouldn't be saying those t...

                         Reviews of Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic
By Phil Villarreal of Arizona Daily Star (3/4) No reference
            Silverman doesn't step on toes; she stomps on them with sharpened stiletto heels. She doesn't tip...

By Philip Martin of Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (3/4) No reference
            ... her jokes ... are often obliteratingly funny in themselves, they are compounded and deepened ...

By Barbara Goslawski of Boxoffice Magazine (3/4) No reference
            While she does have her funny moments, her insensitive persona is simply not interesting enough t...

By Sean O'Connell of Charlotte Weekly (3/4) No reference
            (Silverman) finds what's funny about an uncomfortable situation, then plunges past the point of g...

By Harvey S. Karten of Compuserve (6/1) No reference
            Fails to work (for me) not because it's outrageous, but quite the opposite. Lenny Bruce would no...

By Lisa Kennedy of Denver Post (3/4) No reference
            Jesus Is Magic is the second part of the title of comic Sarah Silverman's very funny, very wrong ...

                         Reviews of Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic
By Jeffrey Bruner of Des Moines Register (3/4) No reference
            It's all in the timing and Silverman has it %u2014 she's in total control on the stage, keeping a...

By Jeff Vice of Deseret News, Salt Lake City (6/1) No reference
            As expected, whether you find any of this funny depends on your tolerance for outrageously and po...

By Brian Orndorf of FilmJerk.com (6/1) No reference
            Magic is an uproarious, profoundly obscene, inventively twisted performance film that, in a just ...

By James Sanford of Kalamazoo Gazette (6/1) No reference
            Whether you think it's awesome or awful, there's no denying that 'Jesus is Magic' is sheer Silver...

By Ernest Hardy of L.A. Weekly (3/4) No reference
            It’s a full-throttle assault on sacred cows and social propriety, issued from a slyly molded pers...

By Josh Bell of Las Vegas Weekly (6/1) No reference
            Every time Silverman gets going on a promising tack, the movie pauses for a momentum-killing dive...

                         Reviews of Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic
By Bob Strauss of Los Angeles Daily News (3/4) No reference
            It's easy to get angry at a lot of the things she says. But it's hard to stay mad at her for very...

By M.E. Russell of Oregonian (3/4) No reference
            It's [Silverman's] hysterically wrongheaded standup persona, showcased in the one-woman show Jesu...

By Mark R. Leeper of rec.arts.movies.reviews (6/1) No reference
            Silverman is bright, appealing, funny, and can tell dirty jokes with style. But she does not have...

By Jack Garner of Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (3/4) No reference
            Jesus Is Magic is full-scale offensive; don't say you weren't warned.

By Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press (3/4) Not Reachable
            More like a play than a stand-up act, the material is woven together so skillfully, it's not unti...

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