The Blue Angel launched a legendary collaboration between Josef von Sternberg and Marlene Dietrich in Hollywood.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 14, 2022

It Is a great role for Emil Jannings -- one of his best... Miss Dietrich Is all that she should be in the role of the cruel enchantress, Lola, although it did seem to us that the vulgar side of the part had been unnecessarily overdone.

| Aug 1, 2020

Its success is guaranteed. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Sep 10, 2019

There can be few moments in the cinema more truly horrible than the scene when the ruined professor shambles on to the stage of the disreputable tavern.

| Aug 6, 2019

Emil Jannings portrays this role superbly... This surely is one of the finest examples of tragic acting yet furnished from the screen.

| Aug 6, 2019

...part exploitation piece, part morality tale.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 5, 2019

Unlike the monsters of Murnau and Wiene, Blue Angel's light is equal to its darkness

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 31, 2019

Once the party's over, the money's lost and the humiliation has set in, what leader, what purifying force can rescue everyone from this devastating shame, while supplying something of the same erotic, exalting excitement?

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 30, 2019

The classic tale of amour fou still holds up over eighty years later.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 29, 2017

American director Josef von Sternberg went to Germany to direct Emil Jannings in his transition from silent to sound cinema and returned to Hollywood with an international hit and a new star: Marlene Dietrich.

| Jun 16, 2016

The walrus and the mink, a Germanic love story

| Jul 26, 2015

Dietrich's clinical detachment only enhances the fetishistic quality of the scene. There is never a doubt about who's in charge.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jan 23, 2014

One of the first films to usher in sound in cinema, "The Blue Angel" remains an outstanding cinematic achievement that has influenced untold numbers of artists in all avenues of performance and exhibition.

| Original Score: A+ | Apr 12, 2009

A remarkable performance from Emil Jannings.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 28, 2008

Director Von Sternberg does whatever is necessary to emphasize the moral decline of not only Jannings but also the community around him.

| Jul 28, 2008

The first film collaboration between Josef von Sternberg and Marlene Dietrich, this reeks with decay and sexuality.

| Jul 28, 2008

If The Blue Angel is familiar material, it is also the sort of hing that Jannings does better than anyone else.

| Jul 28, 2008

On top of the drawing power of Jannings comes the discovery of a new magnet, Marlene Dietrich.

| Jun 2, 2008

Classic Con Sternberg drama which made Dietrich a superstar.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 22, 2008

There's so much to note in this film, from the dance costumes to the use of the camera and von Sternberg's sense of humour

| Oct 21, 2007