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The Face of an Angel

2014

Michael Winterbottom

Daniel Brühl, Kate Beckinsale, Valerio Mastandrea, Cara Delevingne ...

4.4

914

Mystery. Drama Both a journalist and a documentary filmmaker chase the story of a murder and its prime suspect... A movie partly based on "Angel Face: Sex, Murder and the Inside Story of Amanda Knox" by the journalist Barbie Latza Nadeau.

	Author	Review
United States	Deborah Young The Hollywood Reporter	"A rich, poetic film that is not simple to decipher (...) It’s hard to even describe this will-o’-the-wisp film, and audiences are likely to feel alternately intrigued and frustrated as they struggle to puzzle it out"	POS
United Kingdom	Mike McCahill Telegraph	"film about a film about a vaguely familiar overseas murder (...) The Face of an Angel turns circles without really getting anywhere (...) Rating: ★★ (out of five)"	NEG
United Kingdom	Dave Calhoun Time Out	"The Face of an Angel' ties itself up in some strange knots, but Michael Winterbottom conjures up a haunting gothic atmosphere in Siena (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of five)"	POS
United Kingdom	Paul MacInnes The Guardian	"There are lots of things to recommend about this film (...) But every compelling moment feels like a deliberate distraction from what everyone – on screen and in the auditorium – is thinking (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Jeannette Catsoulis The New York Times	"Rambling, frustrating and wholly uninvolving, 'The Face of an Angel' swarms with ideas that have no place to land."	NEG
United Kingdom	Geoffrey Macnab The Independent	"'The Face of an Angel' is a fascinating but perplexing film, which typifies its director's offbeat approach to whatever subject matter he tackles. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of five)"	POS
United States	Gary Goldstein Los Angeles Times	""The Face of an Angel" never seems sure of what story it wants to tell. (...) An ambitious but muddled exercise."	NEU
United States	Kevin Jagernauth IndieWire	"A mismatch of genres, coupled with a pretentious attitude regarding the art of moviemaking (...) Winterbottom's self-seriousness undoes the potential the film had"	NEG

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