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54 out of 100

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6.7 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 14 Ratings

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  • Starring: Meg Ryan, Nicolas Cage
  • Summary: Nicolas Cage and Meg Ryan star in this story of the love between a celestial angel and a very human woman. (Warner Bros.)

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 22
  2. Mixed: 11 out of 22
  3. Negative: 1 out of 22
  1. Variety
    Reviewed by: Emanuel Levy
    90
    The endlessly resourceful Nicolas Cage, as a celestial angel, and a terrifically engaging Meg Ryan, as a pragmatic surgeon, create such blissful chemistry that they elevate the drama to a poetic level seldom reached in a mainstream movie.
  2. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Maitland McDonagh
    60
    For all the "touched by an angel" sentimentality, the movie's eerie, slightly menacing vision of black-clad angels lurking in the shadowy corners of unsuspecting lives is genuinely haunting.
  3. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Michael O'Sullivan
    30
    Needless to say, in the age of inferior remakes, this would-be homage -- a sort of Wim Wenders Lite -- is a mawkish debasement of its source material.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 7
  3. Negative: 1 out of 7
  1. RosaL.
    9
    I think this movie was a tear jerker . i loved it and i have watched it over and over again...
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  2. ovi_bz
    7
    I'm attached emotionally of this movie. The two of my favorite actors are in it. The idea of a falling angel is new. There is enough "garbage" ideas in it, but i can live with them. It is revolutionary so it worth to see it at least once. Meg Ryan is great: very good acting.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  3. ZBobby
    0
    This movie should not have even been made. It is maddening to see a Wenders masterpiece muddied by hollywood rewriting. How can you turn a trapeze artist into a heart surgeon, even worse she is played by none other than the worst actress in that high of a pay bracket. A ridiculous piece of trash at best. Where the original was one of the most philosophical and moving films I have seen in quite some time, this just mocks the original.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes

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