Fallen Angels
Kino International | Release Date: January 30, 1998 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
71
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Generally favorable reviews based on 13 Critic Reviews
Positive:
9
Mixed:
4
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
Even Wong's detractors, who consider him more stylist than auteur, will have a tough time dismissing the extraordinary emotional depth he achieves here. Read full review
90
Chicago ReaderLisa Alspector
Writer-director Wong Kar-wai makes these five self-consciously idiosyncratic types--often seen through distorting lenses in cinematographer Christopher Doyle's somber, garish Hong Kong--fully and instantly believable. Read full review
90
Los Angeles TimesKevin Thomas
An exhilarating rush of a movie, with all manner of go-for-broke visual bravura that expresses perfectly the free spirits of his bold young people. [22 May 1998, Pg.F9]
80
NewsweekAndrea C. Basora
Wong Kar-Wai's cinematic style is unmistakable: hip, colorful and energetic and the film's frenetic pacing and exuberant camera work make the streets of Hong Kong a neon wonderland. Read full review
78
Austin ChronicleRussell Smith
If you're fed up with the stultifying, formula-driven character of today's mainstream films, give Fallen Angels a try. At the very least you'll be engaged, and if you're lucky you may just recapture some of your original wonder at the seductive power of movies. Read full review
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
To describe the plot is to miss the point. Fallen Angels takes the materials of the plot -- the characters and what they do -- and assembles them like a photo montage. At the end, you have impressions, not conclusions. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleEdward Guthmann
It's hard to follow, the characters are ill-defined, and the wide-angle shots used by Wong's perennial cinematographer, Christopher Doyle, are deliberately unflattering. Read full review
75
San Francisco ExaminerG. Allen Johnson
Fallen Angels is proof that Wong will try anything, and the result is an eclectic mix of images and disjointed editing, sounds and rhythms that are at times as powerful as any piece of filmmaking likely to be seen all year. It can also, every once in awhile, be tedious and trying. Read full review
75
LarsenOnFilmJosh Larsen
Even for a Wong Kar-wai film, Fallen Angels is lavishly stylized. Read full review
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