Angela's Ashes Critic Reviews

True to the book's squalor but also finding honest humor where it can.Read the full review

If this beautifully made if flawed film sends people back to his book, it will have done good work for sure.Read the full review

Artfully evokes the physical realities of Irish poverty, but mostly misses the humor, lyricism and emotional charge of Frank McCourt's magical and magnificent memoirRead the full review

While the film dutifully reproduces many incidents from the book, it lacks the spirit and vitality of its source. And - no small problem - it lacks McCourt's voice knitting the vignettes together.Read the full review

What is wonderful about Angela's Ashes is Emily Watson's performance, and the other roles that are convincingly cast.Read the full review

Not since the latest fashion layout flirted with arty desolation, has misery looked this fabulously pristine.Read the full review

Has anyone involved in this disaster ever heard a real story?Read the full review

Seems populated yet uninhabited; the only real star is the gloom.Read the full review

In the translation from page to film, the life seems to have gone out of the storyRead the full review