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City of Angels (1998)

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Reviews Counted: 58

Fresh: 35

Rotten:23

Average Rating: 6.3/10

Runtime: 2 hrs 2 mins

Genre: Dramas

Synopsis: Based in part on Wim Wenders's 1988 film, WINGS OF DESIRE, this is the story of Seth (Nicolas Cage), an angel who wanders the Los Angeles area invisible to humans. As someone's death approaches,... Based in part on Wim Wenders's 1988 film, WINGS OF DESIRE, this is the story of Seth (Nicolas Cage), an angel who wanders the Los Angeles area invisible to humans. As someone's death approaches, he spends time near that person and becomes visible while acting as traveling companion during the trip to the great hereafter. His discovery of a distraught heart surgeon, Maggie (Meg Ryan), inspires him to forego his immortality and exist on earth with her as a feeling and mortal entity. [More]

Starring: Nicolas Cage, Meg Ryan, Dennis Franz, Andre Braugher

Starring: Nicolas Cage, Meg Ryan, Dennis Franz, Andre Braugher, Colm Feore, Robin Bartlett, Joanna Merlin, Rhonda Dotson, John Putch, Jay Patterson, Brian Markinson

Director: Brad Silberling

Director: Brad Silberling
Screenwriter: Dana Stevens
Producer: Dawn Steel, Charles Roven
Composer: Gabriel Yared

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Sep 15, 1998

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Full Review Source: Detroit News | comment Comment
10/18/08
Susan Stark
Detroit News
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The movie's eerie, slightly menacing vision of black-clad angels lurking in the shadowy corners of unsuspecting lives is genuinely haunting.

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09/18/08
Maitland McDonagh
TV Guide's Movie Guide

A good deal better than it has any right to be.

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09/18/08
Channel 4 Film
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Strains to achieve the enchantingly sublime, but ends up sinking to the depressingly ridiculous.

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04/27/07
Andrew Sarris
New York Observer
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As a remake it's not as poetic as Wenders' masterpiece Wings of Desire, but it's supremely mounted (by ace lenser John Seale) and contains touching performances from Nicolas Cage and Meg Ryan deviating from their respective screen images.

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06/01/06
Emanuel Levy
Variety
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Funnier than Wenders' version, and it also succeeds in visualising LA as a magical city while dealing intelligently with the themes of mortality, sacrifice, free will, and the mixed blessings of the human condition.

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02/09/06
Geoff Andrew
Time Out

An emotionally uninvolving flick that attempts to play on the heart strings of the viewer and fails in its effort.

Full Review Source: Reeling Reviews | comment Comment
04/09/05
Robin Clifford
Reeling Reviews

City of Angels is the sort of compromised movie that could have been almost good, but decided to be a great big hit instead.

Full Review Source: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette | comment Comment
01/02/05
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

City of Angels raises theological questions, albeit in a somewhat pedestrian manner, and makes them an integral part of its otherwise formulaic plot.

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12/06/04
Jeffrey Overstreet
Looking Closer

Superb imagery can't compensate for deficiencies of Dana Steven's script and can't hide the formulaic nature of this film.

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06/02/04
Dragan Antulov
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This useless remake lacks the sheer ethereal beauty of the original Wings of Desire.

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10/06/03
Jeffrey M. Anderson
San Francisco Examiner

Why would anyone remake Wim Wenders' masterpiece, Wings of Desire? Certainly not for artistic reasons.

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08/11/03
Carlo Cavagna
AboutFilm.com

A thinking person's film for those who can't think.

Full Review Source: Palo Alto Weekly | comment Comment
05/20/03
Leonard Schwarz
Palo Alto Weekly

A beautiful film in many ways.

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02/08/03
John R. McEwen
Film Quips Online

Marries romance and faith in a love story as charming as a handmade valentine. It is so lovely to look at and so sincere in intent that its flaws don't matter much.

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10/15/02
Margaret A. McGurk
Cincinnati Enquirer

Walking out of the theater, I felt different. The film made me realize how wonderful life could be, how a thing as simple as wind on your face or the taste of a pear had value.

Full Review Source: Montreal Film Journal | comment Comment
09/10/02
Kevin N. Laforest
Montreal Film Journal

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08/08/02
Cory Cheney
Urban Tulsa Weekly

My face had been locked in that goofy, awestruck expression you experience only in Spielberg movies. City of Angels demonstrates the best kind of emotionally manipulative filmmaking.

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06/18/02
Mick LaSalle
San Francisco Chronicle
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Uma pequena pérola que faz jus ao filme no qual foi inspirada.

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05/31/02
Pablo Villaca
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