Angela's Ashes
Paramount Pictures | Release Date: December 22, 1999 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
54
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 32 Critic Reviews
Positive:
15
Mixed:
12
Negative:
5
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
The New York TimesJanet Maslin
Not since the latest fashion layout flirted with arty desolation, has misery looked this fabulously pristine. Read full review
60
NewsweekDavid Ansen
As well-crafted and sensitive as it is, the movie remains one step removed from inspiration. Read full review
60
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
Parker's adaptation is meticulous, unsentimental, beautifully acted-- but nearly two and a half hours worth of dying babies, rain-spattered streets, ragged children and filthy, bug-infested rooms is a bit oppressive. Read full review
59
Mr. ShowbizCody Clark
If Parker had aimed more at capturing the author's unique voice, and worried less about getting the details right, his movie might have been extraordinary as well.
58
Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam Arnold
It's the first film I know of in which we get to see all five of the top-billed actors vomit Read full review
50
L.A. WeeklyElla Taylor
140 minutes of flat vignette, as dreary and uninvolving as the driving rain that never lets up on the benighted streets of Limerick. Read full review
50
Christian Science MonitorDavid Sterritt
The end result smacks more of Hollywood melodrama than true compassion for the suffering poor. Read full review
50
SlateDavid Edelstein
Has anyone involved in this disaster ever heard a real story? Read full review
50
Baltimore SunAnn Hornaday
As with so many recent literary adaptations, it was the writing that was the art, not its infrastructure of plot and character.
50
Austin ChronicleSteve Davis
For those who adore McCourt's work, Angela's Ashes will most likely disappoint; for those unfamiliar with this inspiring chronicle of a survivor, it will neither impress nor dishearten to any degree. Read full review
42
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
Seems populated yet uninhabited; the only real star is the gloom. Read full review
40
Dallas ObserverGregory Weinkauf
A sharp and pungent distillation of the book. However, as far as the theme of childhood under duress goes, I found "My Life as a Dog" or the stridently Irish "Into the West" to be significantly more fulfilling. Read full review
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