Angels and Demons is far more accessible than Da Vinci Code and far more pacy too. It doesn't want viewers to pause, and reflect.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 1, 2019

All I can really say about it is this: if there is one movie you don't see this year, do make it this one.

| Aug 29, 2018

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 18, 2011

| Original Score: C | May 6, 2011

If 'the edge of your seat' is the place where you don't have to think, then Angels & Demons, I'm delighted and surprised to say, will take you there.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Aug 11, 2009

Why are quality pros like Howard and Hanks involved in this enterprise? Do they need the money? Angels and Demons is sure to make plenty. But their artistic souls will do hard time in purgatory for it.

| Jun 13, 2009

At one point Hanks can be glimpsed gasping for air, mid-endless-sentence. Has there ever been a flatter movie character played by a more innately likable star?

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 29, 2009

While both actor and director seem to be more than up to the challenge to prove they're fully engaged to the project this time around, the film is still undone by a last twenty or so minutes so horrible they're downright comical.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 18, 2009

If these movies made any damned sense, the public response might be no more than a yawn.

| May 18, 2009

It's a noisy ride and what you're looking at is pure hokum but for non-believers like me, there's more fun to be had from this express tour of Brown's obsessions than there was in The Da Vinci Code's ponderous progress.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 17, 2009

Angels and Demons is an OK action film, but only the humorless will find it heretical -- or educational.

| Original Score: B- | May 15, 2009

A film that tries hard to break free from the dull tone of its predecessor but ends up even more ridiculous, frustrating and generally worthless.

| May 15, 2009

Angels & Demons has some exciting sequences, a spectacular ending with a terrific twist and a grounding in the debate about science versus religion that could hardly be more timely.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 15, 2009

Ron Howard's follow-up to the stiff, stately 2006 The Da Vinci Code, might have been classy, entertaining junk -- if only it were entertaining.

Full Review | May 15, 2009

A future camp classic. Where Howard wants us to make the sign of the cross, we're slapping high fives.

| Original Score: C | May 15, 2009

[T]he film does not conclude with Langdon being elected Pope himself, but, watching the spiraling inanities of the last 20 minutes, one might be forgiven for thinking it would be the next logical step.

| May 15, 2009

Howard seems to count on audience goodwill toward Hanks carrying over to Langdon, filling in the hero's many blanks.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | May 15, 2009

[It's] not anti-Catholic. It is, however, anti-exciting, anti-sense and anti-involving.

| Original Score: C- | May 15, 2009

What the movie is supposed to accomplish -- laying out a fairly complex mystery in a way that creates suspense -- is precisely what it doesn't do.

| May 15, 2009

Presumably in response to criticism that The Da Vinci Code was static and talky, director Ron Howard has made Angels & Demons frantic %u2014 and, well, talky

| Original Score: 4/10 | May 15, 2009