A great deal of commotion is organized to conceal the fact that the filmmaker has little to say about contemporary life in general or even his own individual life and circumstances.

| Feb 16, 2021

Even the distresses of abandoning hope and wishing to pay for sins exhibit an artistry rarely found in these kinds of storylines (the kind involving vigilante justice).

| Original Score: 8/10 | Sep 29, 2020

Casts a poetic, otherworldly romantic spell.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 30, 2008

The story itself holds a sense of stark reality and raw emotions mixed with a sense of flight and fantasy.

| Original Score: A | Jun 21, 2007

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 30, 2006

For those who are open to a languorous meditation on love and justice, Heaven is a rewarding, if slightly labored, experience.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 6, 2003

while Franka Potente fans may keenly feel her absence in this film, the addition of the absolutely phenomenal Cate Blanchett more than balances the books.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 10, 2003

It was gutsy for Tykwer to finish the work of a genius. He's mostly successful.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Jun 19, 2003

Blanchett is riveting.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 11, 2003

A very interesting film and, if you are a thinking person, it will haunt you for some time after you have seen it.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 27, 2003

Heaven, beguiling as it is...eventually glides into the borderlands of pure mumbo jumbo.

| Original Score: B | Mar 19, 2003

You live the mood rather than savour the story.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 5, 2003

Its themes are also more relevant and understandable, but Heaven is still premeditated, conceptual, and vigilant.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 22, 2003

This dramatic thriller stretches credibility so often that it almost seems more like a fantasy.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 6, 2002

What begins as a conventional thriller evolves into a gorgeously atmospheric meditation on life-changing chance encounters.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 29, 2002

Arthouse hokum.

Full Review | Nov 29, 2002

A penitent meditation on guilt, revenge, sacrifice, and redemption.

| Original Score: A- | Nov 28, 2002

Too artsy by half, Heaven nonetheless casts a spell that doesn't break until you leave the theater.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 15, 2002

If Heaven doesn't quite achieve the transcendent power that Kieslowski might have attained, it comes close.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 15, 2002

Though death robbed Krzysztof Kieslowski of the opportunity, substantial contributions from the visually adept Tykwer allowed him to leave us a little slice of "Heaven."

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 14, 2002