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  Review by Emily Housel ★★★★½ 1

  angels are alive and well and can always be found at nick cave concerts

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  Review by Rida ★★★★½ 46

  When I was a child, my mother told me that no matter where I was, there would be two angels on either side of me: one to write down all the good things I had done, another to write down all the bad. When I died, the angels would take these books to God, and God would decide whether I would go to heaven or hell. My shoulders were heavy for days afterward. I felt haunted – hunted, in fact, and I couldn’t tell my mother, because she would know about my guilt and think that I was bad.

  I eventually forgot about the nosy angels, but I wish my religion had spoken of guardian angels – those silent, everlasting…

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  Review by Timcop ★★★★★ 2

  What the film doesn't explicitly state is that the best part about becoming human is losing that anthropology professor ponytail.

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  Review by Patrick Willems ★★★★½ 8

  I’ll never look at Columbo the same way again

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  Review by Laura ★★★★ 2

  if an angel ever reads my mind all he’s gonna hear is random phoebe bridgers lyrics, thinking bout daniel day-lewis, feeling embarrassed about something i said three years ago, maybe i should learn to make bread, succession theme song, and half of a formed thought before the depression kicks in.

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  Review by 👽 Zara 👽 ★★★½

  imagine being such a simp you give up immortality smh

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  Review by Marcissus ★★★★★ 9

  I'm not gonna tell you about a girl.

  
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  so there i was, madly trying to scramble together the words to futilely summarize this film with sentences and my fire alarm goes off. now i live in student accommodation and this means that all 50 students on my block have the same problem. it's midnight here in Britland, so I take a quick piss, put on some raggard shoes, and go outside where we have to wait for security to come shut it off. this has happened before, we know the drill, it mostly happens at night. mostly. it's just me and another girl in my flat in our small building, so we sit outside our door in the cold…

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  Review by Mike D'Angelo ★★★ 5

  54/100

  [originally written on my blog]

  Think I'd love this as a silent film, as it's mostly the poetic language that puts me off. Whenever human thoughts are just an indecipherable buzz in a language I don't speak, as in crowd scenes, I mentally project myself into the lives of those random faces, sometimes to deeply moving effect...but then Damiel or Cassiel will zero in on somebody in particular, and we'll hear her saying things like "Longing. Longing for a wave of love that would stir in me. That's what makes me clumsy. The absence of pleasure. Desire for love. Desire to love," and the spell is immediately broken. (Peter Falk's internal monologue is so comparatively mundane that I wonder…

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  Review by Dirk Diggler ★★★★★ 3

  Such a life-affirming and touching film. Its marvelous free-flowing camera work that becomes an angel-like character itself, its effective use of color, time and the divided city of Berlin, the emotionally evoking soundtrack, the contrast of the adult's mundane or existentialistic thoughts to children's enthusiasm, and its wonderful performances and cameos makes this such a mesmerizing experience capturing both the happy and miserable aspects of life in a meditative and reflective way. It's a nearly plotless and slow-paced film, but it flows like poetry in motion, a love letter to the joy of life. I love it. I'm so glad I saw this in the theatre.

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  Review by Cory ★★★★★ 12

  "Time heals all, but what if time itself is the disease?"
  
  I'm shook. Astonished. Flabbergasted. Stupefied. However you want to put it—I'm at such a loss for words. Maybe it's due to time growing more elusive as I get older, but this film hit me hard & pushed all the right buttons. The world is in a constant balancing act with itself—endless dreams of light, dark, & everything in between. For better or for worse, it's all beautiful in a weird way. Billions of different souls perpetually flowing at once; so many moving parts inside an indifferent machine. This film is exactly why I prefer going in mostly blind.

  Whether you're spiritually conscious, looking for perspective, or just appreciate great cinema—Wings of Desire is fantastic & highly recommended.
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  Have a great weekend, everyone - thanks for reading!✌

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  Review by Matt! ★★★★★ 11

  “I’m here. I’m free. I can imagine anything. Everything’s possible.”

  I wanted to make a joke about how this guy is the ultimate simp, but this movie is way too good for my dumb humor.

  Wings of Desire is one of those films that could only have been made during a very specific period in history, but whose message is universal and timeless. Inspired by artwork of angels scattered throughout West Berlin in the 1980s, this film follows the lives of two angels who hover over Berlin observing the every day lives of its occupants, listening to their inner thoughts and offering invisible comfort to those in distress. One of these angels, played by Bruno Ganz, falls in love from…

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  Review by Eli Hayes ★★★★½ 6

  No, I was indeed wrong --
  I do wish that I was dead.