Angels in America (TV Miniseries)

"The best Movie of the Year 2003 (...) Mike Nichols's small-screen version of Tony Kushner's incendiary AIDS phantasmagoria (...) its integrity remains intact." 

I'm tempted to be flip and say this is Nichols' best movie since ''Working Girl' (...) 'Angels'' qualities are necessary to sell the extravagantly magisterial material (...) to a television audience" 

"Extravagantly conceived and gloriously realized, Angels in America is not just one of the best television movies ever made — it's also a transcendent work of art. (...) Meryl Streep and Al Pacino, giving performances that rival the best of their legendary careers" 

"Director Mike Nichols, and a magnificent cast led by Meryl Streep have pulled a spellbinding and revelatory TV movie out of the Tony- and Pulitzer Prize-winning work. (...) 'Angels in America' unfolds into the most powerful television experience of the year" 

"Fully capturing the grandeur, extravagance, urgency, poetry and humor of the produced play, the savvy veteran director has brought out an elemental dimension of emotional melodrama that makes the piece compulsive screen fare" 

"Nichols’s version hasn’t watered down the message, but watching it on TV alone in your living room reduces the work to the sum of its parts. What’s missing is the sense of community that you experience in a theatre." 

"What works best here is what worked best onstage — Kushner's writing (...) Nichols' sense of Kushner's rhythm is off here, as is his sense of Kushner's juxtapositions."