... it anti-Catholic." (Catholic League 1) Nowhere in their 1999 year end report did the Catholic League mention exactly what parts of the movie were anti-Catholic. Along similar lines is a review by aforementioned Christopher Null of filmcritic.com. He states "In "Dogma", Smith's long-awaited and already vilified indictment of the Catholic church, the auteur has gone to great lengths to ... a female. This is not the norm in Catholicism. Another example is that the lead actress in this film, Bethany (Linda Fiorentino) is a direct relative of Jesus Christ. Nowhere in the Bible did it say any...

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... has little in common with Irving's 1820 story, the film's theme still speaks about the struggle in our world between rationality and spiritual explanation. Roger Ebert explains in his 1999 review of the film: "The decapitations may provide the stuff of nightmares, but on a deeper level they also provide a fitting image of humanity's freedom from the shackles of rational thought. Increasingly ... taken back to Hell" (Burton Sleepy Hollow). The townsfolk immediately inform Crane of the Horseman's history, suggesting that the only book Crane needs to read for research is the Holy Bible. Cr...

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