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.

| 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.

| Oct 14, 2019

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

| Original Score: C | Mar 17, 2011

Sometimes humorous and wholly inspiring tale.

| 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.

| Original Score: B | Jul 23, 2007

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

| 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.

| Aug 21, 2002

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

| 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.

| Original Score: C- | Jul 2, 2002

| 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

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

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

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

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

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

| Original Score: B+ | Jan 1, 2000

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Lacks the magnificence of his book, but it is worth seeing.

| Jan 1, 2000

There's a compelling momentum to Angela's Ashes, Alan Parker's very faithful, if poetically subordinate, version of McCourt's book, which imposed elegance on squalor and intelligence on the indolence cultivated by poverty.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Despite its harsh scenes, Angela's Ashes will leave you with lovely memories.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000