Critic Reviews
35
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
positive
2(15%)
mixed
5(38%)
negative
6(46%)
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70
The extra-short length is puzzling -- about half an hour has been lopped off the length of the original Canadian release -- but what remains feels whole and wholly satisfying, a rare, successful merging of the obvious and the haunting.
63
An uplifting but occasionally treacly tale of transcendent grief, opted to venture where angels go fearlessly.
50
With its mystical mumbo jumbo and even a helpful beam of celestial light in one scene, A Rumor of Angels is a kind of cinematic comfort food for an undemanding audience.
50
Were it not for the presence of higher-level acting talent, A Rumor of Angels would have been a banal TV movie.
50
A predictable tearjerker whose main redeeming feature is that you don't actually see any of the angels in the title.
50
Despite good acting from the entire cast, yarn is a bit dull and predictable, straining too hard to convey its spiritual message.
40
A Rumor of Angels beats its wings furiously, only to sink back into spiritualist goo.
30
As A Rumor of Angels reveals itself to be a sudsy tub of supernatural hokum, not even Ms. Redgrave's noblest efforts can redeem it from hopeless sentimentality.
30
The emotional aspects of the story are treated with such a heavy hand, the supernatural aspects are so vague and uninvolving, and the group dynamic is so unconvincing that one can't quite imagine why anybody bothered.
30
What's most offensive isn't the waste of a good cast, but the film's denial of sincere grief and mourning in favor of bogus spiritualism. Only devotees of Ouija boards and TV's "Crossing Over" will find anything of merit here.
