Average Rating: 4.9/10
Reviews Counted: 35
Fresh: 12 | Rotten: 23
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Average Rating: 4.8/10
Critic Reviews: 9
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 7
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Average Rating: 2.9/5
User Ratings: 108,285
There are angels among us, and they like lots of sugar in their coffee, in writer-director Nora Ephron's comic fantasy Michael. Vartan Malt (Bob Hoskins) is the editor of a tabloid called the National Mirror that specializes in unlikely stories about celebrities and frankly unbelievable tales about ordinary folks. When Malt gets word that a woman is supposedly harboring an angel in a small town in Iowa, he figures that this might be right up the Mirror's alley, so he sends out three people to
PG, 1 hr. 45 min.
Dec 25, 1996 Wide
Aug 26, 1997
All Critics (58) | Top Critics (16) | Fresh (12) | Rotten (23) | DVD (2)
Travolta's charismatic presence is the only positive element in Nora Ephron's flawed romantic fable marred by rough narrative spots and scattered direction, again showing that Ephron lacks the most basic technical skills.
Not much in the way of laughs or anything else.
Some moments as lovely as the smell of cookies, especially the dance number.
Travolta magic is sprinkled everywhere
A cloying and cloudy romantic comedy in which Travolta dons angelic wings. Michael is innocuously whimsical but wasteful
I love this Movie somuch. It makes you believe Wonders happen.
December 8, 2009
Super Reviewer
Not one of Travolta's best, but I definitely liked it more than I anticipated I would.
October 15, 2009Super Reviewer
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