Critic Reviews

• Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly

  This cloying, voices-from-the-other-side story is hell.

• Wendy Lee, Village Voice

  The film's darker moments become smoothed over by an overwhelming need to tender inspirational tidings, especially in the last few cloying moments.

• Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper

  There are times when A Rumor of Angels plays like an extended episode of Touched by an Angel -- a little too much dancing, a few too many weeping scenes -- but I liked its heart and its spirit.

• Claudia Puig, USA Today

  A spiritual exploration of sorts, offering a message of hope that resonates.

• Jonathan Foreman, New York Post

  The screenplay by James Eric, James Horton and director Peter O'Fallon ... is so pat it makes your teeth hurt.

• John Moore, Denver Post

  Denver should not get the first and last look at one of the most triumphant performances of Vanessa Redgrave's career. It deserves to be seen everywhere.

• Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com

  A soft, overly familiar coming of age tale, though in small, eccentric role Vanessa Redgrave is good.

• Prairie Miller, WBAI Web Radio

  When you're set on making a serious drama like A Rumor Of Angels about talking to the dead - in Morse Code no less - credibility is apt to be strained for anyone beyond the most hardcore seance fanatics.

• Shirley Sealy, Film Journal International

  For those with an aversion to such sentimentality, especially when associated with the spirit world, Vanessa Redgrave is still reason enough to see A Rumor of Angels.

• Michael Dequina, TheMovieReport.com

  Given the fact that virtually no one is bound to show up at theatres for it, the project should have been made for the tube.

• Walter Chaw, Film Freak Central

  Long on twinkly-eyed close-ups and short on shame.

• Staci Layne Wilson, Fantastica Daily

  The actors are fantastic. They are what makes it worth the trip to the theatre.

• Bob Aulert, culturevulture.net

  The actors don't inhabit their roles -- they're trapped by them, forced to change behavior in bizarre unjustified fashion and spout dialog that consists mostly of platitudes.

• Michael Phillips, Citysearch

  The problem with movies about angels is they have a tendency to slip into hokum. A Rumor of Angels doesn't just slip -- it avalanches into forced fuzziness.

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