Lightning Over Water Reviews
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
It's a fitting heartfelt tribute to Ray.
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| Original Score: A-
TV Guide's Movie Guide
A poignant and often painful film in which Wenders and the terminally ill Ray attempt to make a film together in the last days before Ray's death in 1979.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Combustible Celluloid
Wenders adds in some cruddy early-80s video from time to time, and the film is an odd mixture of powerful emotions and rambling nothingness.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Time Out
Top CriticEven with its painful contradictions and discomfitures, it's that current rarity: one for the heart.
Reel Film Reviews
Unquestionably the worst movie of Wim Wenders' career and indeed one of the worst movies ever made...
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| Original Score: 0/4
Lightning Over Water is chaotic, emotionally and esthetically.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Film4
It is obviously a sincere homage from a younger director to the older man, but it remains dubious and smacks of exploitation.
