Dogma (film) Warner Bros. Records. It features an orchestral score by Howard Shore, performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra; and the song "Still", written, performed, and produced by Morissette. Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic described the "rich, effective" score as "alternately melodramatic and humorous". "Dogma" was the third-highest-grossing film in its opening weekend, behind "The Bone Collector" and "", grossing $8.7 million. The film grossed a domestic total of $30.7 million from a $10 million budget. On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 67% based on 126 reviews, with an average rating of 6.2/10. The site's critical consensus reads,
Dogma (film) "Provocative and audacious, "Dogma" is an uneven but thoughtful religious satire that's both respectful and irreverent." On Metacritic, the film received a score of 62 out of 100, based on 36 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Some religious groupsin particular the activist Catholic Leaguedenounced the film as blasphemous. Other groups staged protests outside theaters screening the film; but "Chicago Sun-Times"s critic Roger Ebert noted that there was no official objection from the Catholic Church itself. "We are actually free in this country to disagree about religion," Ebert wrote, "and blasphemy is not a crime." Ebert awarded the film three-and-a-half stars