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6.0 out of 10

Mixed or average reviews- based on 10 Ratings

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  1. Positive: 7 out of 10
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  3. Negative: 3 out of 10

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  1. JoeT.
    Aug 27, 2005
    7
    This is quite a good movie. Despite being dominated by gloom, it retains a positive moral centre which keeps it enjoyable and heartening. It's perhaps a little too long also and it does tire a little towards the end, but it remains a very good film nonetheless.
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  2. FrankS.
    Aug 30, 2005
    8
    This is an excellent film. Many critics have been disappointed with it in comparison with the book but when viewed as a film in its own right it is an excellent movie.
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  3. JayC.
    Jul 17, 2004
    1
    This is the worst movie I ever seen in my life.
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  4. NedD.
    Sep 14, 2001
    3
    Joyless slog of a film. Parker got all of the disease, rot, depression, sludge and grime correct, but forgot to include what everyone liked about the book: the heart.
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Metascore

Mixed or average reviews - based on 32 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 15 out of 32
  2. Negative: 5 out of 32
  1. 70
    Dramatic, massive in scale, at times very moving. And yet, somehow, it comes up short in terms of essential poetry.
  2. The question is not whether the movie exactly duplicates the experience of the book, but whether the movie stands on its own. Angela's Ashes clearly does.
  3. It really gets gloomy.