Sarah Silverman: Jesus is Magic 2005

Allison Benedikt, Chicago Tribune: Silverman throws her carefully crafted persona a proper, and hilarious, coming-out party. Read more

Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: Jesus Is Magic may be a bit too much for anyone but the most hardcore Silverman fan. Read more

Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: Sarah Silverman is a brilliant comic. Read more

Phil Kloer, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: There are a number of wonderfully wicked lines, but overall the movie feels slack and self-indulgent, more of a decent HBO special that's being asked to do more than it can. Read more

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Bill Muller, Arizona Republic: I wouldn't take my mother, but this stand-up movie is pretty funny. Read more

Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: Silverman's abrasive material is funny because her approach is friendly. Read more

Carina Chocano, Los Angeles Times: She makes fun of bigotry by pretending to be a bigot; hypocrisy by pretending to be a hypocrite; and stupidity by pretending to be dumb. Read more

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Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle: Silverman comes across as a racist, callous diva in Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic. Read more

Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: Jesus Is Magic is the second part of the title of comic Sarah Silverman's very funny, very wrong movie, which weaves wacky musical numbers and odd backstage moments with an L.A. performance of her one-woman show. Read more

Tom Long, Detroit News: Yes, it's sick. Yes, it's funny. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: When she's on, Silverman, with her willingness to say anything, can be liberating: a bomb-tossing jester in the blasphemous-and-proud-of-it tradition of Lenny Bruce and Howard Stern. Read more

Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News: Jesus Is Magic manages to push hot buttons with a deceptively tender caress. Read more

Ernest Hardy, L.A. Weekly: It's a full-throttle assault on sacred cows and social propriety, issued from a slyly molded persona of white-girl privilege and cocksure ignorance. Read more

John Anderson, Newsday: The key to her delivery is about sly surprise, a 'did-she-really-say-what-I-think-she just-said' technique. Read more

Lisa Rose, Newark Star-Ledger: In the realm of confrontational comedy, Silverman is queen bee. Read more

Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: For her first concert film, comedian Sarah Silverman trots out about 40 minutes' worth of her best stand-up material and pads the rest with an assortment of ill-conceived and unfunny skits and musical numbers. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: A movie that filled me with an urgent desire to see Sarah Silverman in a different movie. Read more

Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: The movie lures us into that forbidden garden where the funniest things are precisely the things we're not supposed to laugh at, only to yank us out of that paradise and draw our attention to the things it desperately wants us to laugh at. Read more

Ruthe Stein, San Francisco Chronicle: Her material is funny, original, occasionally poignant and almost all of it too dirty to repeat in a newspaper. Read more

David Edelstein, Slate: Silverman's onstage persona might be limited, but it's endlessly resonant. Read more

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Tim Arthur, Time Out: Not to everyone's taste but her legions of internet fans won't be disappointed. Anyone who can come up with a line like 'I don't care if you think I'm a racist, I just want you to think I'm thin,' is okay in our books. Read more

J. Hoberman, Village Voice: Sarah Silverman's cartoon bunny rabbit smile could make her the poster child for orthodontia, but it's her timing that's the real thing of beauty. Read more

Stephen Hunter, Washington Post: What she can do is make you laugh your tonsils out. The fact that she shouldn't be saying those things and you shouldn't be laughing at them makes it even more deliciously painful. Read more