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10/18/08
City of Angels (1998)
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Reviews Counted:14
Fresh:10
Rotten:4
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,... [More]
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Meg Ryan, Dennis Franz, Andre Braugher
Director: Brad Silberling
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Reviews for City of Angels
1 - 14 (sorted by date)
Top CriticStrains to achieve the enchantingly sublime, but ends up sinking to the depressingly ridiculous.
04/27/07
Top CriticAs 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.
06/01/06
Top CriticMy 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.
06/18/02
Top CriticA lovely oddity.
04/12/02
Top CriticIt manages to leave a pleasant afterglow for those in the mood for its kind of loving.
02/14/01
Top CriticThe movie has its affecting moments, but the drearily inevitable has come true -- an original and rather haunting poetic conception has been turned into a literal-minded love story.
01/01/00
Top CriticCity of Angels is more romantic than profound, but Dana Stevens' script is thoughtful and intelligent, and I never felt insulted by what the characters say, do, or think.
01/01/00
Top CriticNo review available.
01/01/00
Top CriticAn old-fashioned, big-hearted movie.
01/01/00
Top CriticAlthough City of Angels sometimes dances perilously close to the line between romance and schmaltz, it never crosses it, a nifty maneuver when you consider that the story deals with both love and spirituality, two areas land-mined with cant.
01/01/00
Top CriticAs angel movies go, this is one of the better ones, not least because Meg Ryan is so sunny and persuasive as a heart surgeon who falls in love with an angel.
01/01/00
Top CriticAwash in angelic choruses and panoramic scenery, the movie aspires toward a solemnity that Dana Stevens's prosaic psychobabbling screenplay cannot support.
01/01/00
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