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City of Angels Review

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Critics scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 3.0
    54

    out of 100

    Metascore®
    Mixed or average reviews
    based on a weighted average of all
    critic review scores.

  • 40

    out of 100

    The New York Times Stephen Holden

    The movie aspires toward a solemnity that Dana Stevens's prosaic psychobabbling screenplay cannot support. The movie is so busy being seriously romantic that it forgets the poetry, the whimsy, the airy mystery, the dreamy what-if of angelic contemplation.

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  • 50

    out of 100

    Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

    This is the sort of movie in which everyone on screen is swathed in gauzy benevolence. You practically have time to say a prayer in the dead spaces between lines.

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  • 70

    out of 100

    Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan

    A fascinating hybrid. A Hollywood fantasy at its most fantastic, the film is equal parts true innocence and shameless calculation. Deciding whether the glass is half empty or half full depends on which part you are willing to embrace.

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  • 75

    out of 100

    Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

    What I did appreciate is that City of Angels is one of the few angel movies that knows one essential fact about angels: They are not former people. ”Angels aren't human. We were never human,” observes Seth. This is quite true. Angels are purely spiritual beings.

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  • 75

    out of 100

    ReelViews James Berardinelli

    I suspect City of Angels is going to remind many viewers of “Ghost,” but there's a big difference: this film is more true and less manipulative.

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  • 90

    out of 100

    Variety Emanuel Levy

    The endlessly resourceful Nicolas Cage, as a celestial angel, and a terrifically engaging Meg Ryan, as a pragmatic surgeon, create such blissful chemistry that they elevate the drama to a poetic level seldom reached in a mainstream movie.

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For Families provided by Common Sense Media

Iffy for 13+

Glossy romance as an angel falls for a surgeon.

What Parents Need to Know

Parents need to know that there are some sad deaths (including a child).

  • Families can talk about why Maggie's relationship with her colleague is so unsatisfying for her, and why Seth's role is so unsatisfying for him.

The good stuff
  • message true0

    Messages: Not an issue

What to watch for
  • violence false0

    Violence: Sad death of character.

  • sex false3

    Sex: Some.

  • language false3

    Language: Some.

  • consumerism false0

    Consumerism: Not an issue

  • drugsalcoholtobacco false0

    Drinking, drugs and smoking: Not an issue

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