Lightning Over Water Reviews

Unquestionably the worst movie of Wim Wenders' career and indeed one of the worst movies ever made...

Full Review | Original Score: 0/4

Lightning Over Water is chaotic, emotionally and esthetically.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

It is obviously a sincere homage from a younger director to the older man, but it remains dubious and smacks of exploitation.

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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.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

It's a fitting heartfelt tribute to Ray.

Full Review | Original Score: A-

| Original Score: 3/5

Even with its painful contradictions and discomfitures, it's that current rarity: one for the heart.

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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.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

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