Angel-A
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48 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 25 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 25
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 25
  3. Negative: 5 out of 25
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  1. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Wesley Morris
    38
    The movie might have been more tolerable had Besson searched harder for a performer and not a specimen. Barbara Stanwyck in her prime might have made more sense.
  2. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Desson Thomson
    30
    Angel-A is counterfeit art-house chic writ large -- a French film that fails to produce the ineffable charms of the yesteryear movies it brazenly imitates.
  3. The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
    Reviewed by: Kamal AL-Solaylee
    25
    How Besson drags this premise into 90 minutes of screen time should be of interest to the perverse among you – or anybody teaching a how-not-to-make-a-movie summer course.
  4. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Nathan Rabin
    25
    At heart, it's just the latest from one-man industry Luc Besson, so even though it looks like art, it plays like schlock.
  5. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Owen Gleiberman
    16
    Angel-A shows how director Luc Besson can be French in a way that even the French might despise...Quel ick. And très tedious.

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5.7 out of 10

Mixed or average reviews- based on 10 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 2
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 2
  3. Negative: 1 out of 2
  1. lameo33forf
    0
    Expected better. Not good at all.
  2. JamesT.
    9
    top movie that brought a tear to my eye with its humour, beauty and passion all shot in black and white making paris inself look like some mythical land ,solid acting by the lead actors.… Full Review »
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