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 "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."
-- Bob Aulert, CULTUREVULTURE.NET
 "That death is merely a transition is a common tenet in the world's religions. This deeply spiritual film taps into the meaning and consolation in afterlife communications."
-- Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, SPIRITUALITY AND HEALTH
"Long on twinkly-eyed close-ups and short on shame."
-- Walter Chaw, FILM FREAK CENTRAL
"...a hokey piece of nonsense that tries too hard to be emotional."
-- David Cornelius, AMAZING COLOSSAL WEBSITE
"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."
-- Ken Fox, TV GUIDE'S MOVIE GUIDE
"Its gentle, touching story creeps into your heart."
-- Chris Hewitt, ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS
"No amount of good intentions is able to overcome the triviality of the story."
-- Chuck Rudolph, MATINEE MAGAZINE
"If there was any doubt that Peter O'Fallon didn't have an original bone in his body, A Rumor of Angels should dispel it."
-- Shlomo Schwartzberg, BOXOFFICE MAGAZINE
"It's a humble effort, but spiced with wry humor and genuine pathos, especially between Morgan and Redgrave."
-- Gregory Weinkauf, NEW TIMES
"All the heart tugging in this world (and beyond) fails to generate anything worth believing here."
-- E! ONLINE
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-- MOVIELINE
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"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."
-- Michael Dequina, MR. BROWN'S MOVIES
"Short-story quaint, touchingly mending a child's pain for his dead mother via communication with an old woman straight out of Eudora Welty."
-- Ed Gonzalez, SLANT MAGAZINE
"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."
-- Michael Phillips, CITYSEARCH
"[director] O'Fallon manages to put some lovely pictures up on the big screen, but his skill at telling a story -- he also contributed to the screenplay -- falls short."
-- Chuck Schwartz, CRANKY CRITIC®
"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."
-- Shirley Sealy, FILM JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL
"The actors are fantastic. They are what makes it worth the trip to the theatre."
-- Staci Layne Wilson, FANTASTICA DAILY
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-- Rachel Gordon, CULTUREDOSE.NET
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"Theological matters aside, the movie is so clumsily sentimental and ineptly directed it may leave you speaking in tongues."
-- John Anderson, LOS ANGELES TIMES
"The screenplay by James Eric, James Horton and director Peter O'Fallon ... is so pat it makes your teeth hurt."
-- Jonathan Foreman, NEW YORK POST
"Decent but dull."
-- Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION
"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."
-- Stephen Holden, NEW YORK TIMES
"Rumor, a muddled drama about coming to terms with death, feels impersonal, almost generic."
-- Kirk Honeycutt, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
"The film's darker moments become smoothed over by an overwhelming need to tender inspirational tidings, especially in the last few cloying moments."
-- Wendy Lee, VILLAGE VOICE
"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."
-- John Moore, DENVER POST
"A spiritual exploration of sorts, offering a message of hope that resonates."
-- Claudia Puig, USA TODAY
"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."
-- Richard Roeper, EBERT & ROEPER
"This cloying, voices-from-the-other-side story is hell."
-- Lisa Schwarzbaum, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
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-- Jeff Strickler, MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE
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