Angela's Ashes
User Score
6.2 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 13 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 13
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 13
  3. Negative: 4 out of 13

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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. JayC.
    Jul 17, 2004
    1
    This is the worst movie I ever seen in my life.
  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
54 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 32 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 15 out of 32
  2. Mixed: 12 out of 32
  3. Negative: 5 out of 32
  1. Salon.com
    Reviewed by: Stephanie Zacharek
    70
    Dramatic, massive in scale, at times very moving. And yet, somehow, it comes up short in terms of essential poetry.
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  2. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Jack Mathews
    75
    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.
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  3. Charlotte Observer
    Reviewed by: Lawrence Toppman
    75
    It really gets gloomy.
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