Seeing the bleak, rainy, flooded slums of 1930s Ireland through the eyes of the young lead character, we're spared the total despair of his parent's grief and sometimes find fun in the dirtiest corners of the drab streets.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 1, 2021

One of the film's strengths is the art direction: never has back-lane Ireland looked so festering, sombre and raindrenched.

Full Review | Oct 14, 2019

A tedious, vastly disappointing film that does not do justice to the wonderful and touching book upon which it is based.

Full Review | Original Score: C | Mar 17, 2011

Sometimes humorous and wholly inspiring tale.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 14, 2007

I enjoyed the relentless gloomy realism, the refusal to put a happy face on McCourt's miserable childhood.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Jul 23, 2007

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | May 20, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Feb 8, 2003

Misses the mark as an exceptional drama yet manages to vividly convey the soul-shattering effects of poverty.

Full Review | Aug 21, 2002

Like bread without yeast, 'Angela's Ashes' minus the author's wit can't rise to meet expectations.

Full Review | Aug 2, 2002

A dreary, ultimately punishing adaptation of Frank McCourt's memoir, where every other scene has somebody either getting sick, puking or dying.

Full Review | Original Score: C- | Jul 2, 2002

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 19, 2002

I am pleased to announce that this film is a fine, a beautiful presentation of a painful story.

Full Review | Original Score: 5 | Jun 14, 2001

Alan Parker logra uno de sus mejores trabajos en lo que es un tributo al espritu humano que ofrece lo mejor de s en medio de las peores adversidades

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 14, 2001

a long, exhausting, almost completely humorless chronicle of misery, shame, and hardship

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 27, 2001

It is an anecdotal, nostalgic, crowd-pleasing coffee-table book of a film, neither shocking nor challenging.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Primitive peoples, or so it's said, resist being photographed, believing that the creation of an image robs them of their souls. A quaint notion, perhaps, but how else can you explain what's happened to Angela's Ashes?

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 1, 2000

Angela's Ashes is the soggiest dud of all the major holiday releases.

Full Review | Original Score: C- | Jan 1, 2000

A quietly triumphant experience.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Angela's Ashes is a gem for the sort of audience that needs no fast-cutting and no contrived conflicts.

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10 | Jan 1, 2000

The two and a half hour duration goes at the rate of a Leslie Nielson death scene.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000