...utterly beautiful and provides a document for West Berlin just before the fall of the wall...

| May 11, 2024

To put it simply, Wings of Desire has a visual fascination but no animating force -- that’s part of why it’s being acclaimed as art.

| Sep 15, 2023

An example of the most inspired Wim Wenders. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jun 21, 2023

One of those rare motion pictures that manages to bring a true poetic sensibility to the medium of film.

| Original Score: 4/4 | May 24, 2023

It's a fine work of art, though one that leaves you wishing for a little more substance, ultimately making this a film that's very easy to admire, but a little difficult to truly love.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 16, 2023

While the time and setting of Wings of Desire is incredibly specific, its themes spring eternal.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Apr 28, 2023

Wim Wenders’ most purely romantic film is like poetry on celluloid, a celebration of the transient and fragile moments of being human: the warmth of a cup of coffee on a cold day, the embrace of a friend, the touch of a lover, the rapture of love.

| Mar 4, 2023

Wings of Desire remains a stunning cinematic achievement, and sits near the top of an exceptional filmography from one of not just Germany but Europe’s most celebrated directors.

| Jul 8, 2022

Wim Wenders’ astonishing, award-winning fantasy drama depicts life in a divided Berlin through the eyes of angels.

| Jun 28, 2022

If some restorations of classic films are mere spit and polish, this one is spectacular: a deepening and sharpening of existing beauty.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 23, 2022

A cinema of ideas, almost an essay movie, and utterly distinctive.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 22, 2022

The film remains as soothing and esoteric as it was upon release, suffused with a sweet lyricality and lightness of touch despite its heavily philosophical outlook.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 21, 2022

Brobably the closest thing to a popular movie about metaphysics that the medium has had yet to offer.

| Oct 22, 2020

Peter Handke's script plays a big role when it injects into the movie a suitable poetic breath. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Apr 22, 2020

Wenders has made a film that is elegiac but harsh, hard-edged and romantic, haunted as well as haunting, but that... holds out the promise of love as a benign coming-to-rest.

| Feb 27, 2020

It is a complex work of art that can only grow in stature from repeated viewings.

| Oct 16, 2019

The film's pacing and ethereal camera movements only help to magnify the angelic tranquility...Wenders is challenging us to rethink how we view our place in the world.

| Original Score: A | Feb 16, 2019

Some of the finest of writer Peter Handke's work, influenced by Rainer Maria Rilke, is on generous offer. Henri Alekan's camerawork, poetry upon poetry, is particularly fine.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Dec 24, 2018

It remains one of the most beautiful, heartfelt movies ever, and will always be just what I need.

| Oct 25, 2018

Whether or not Wings of Desire qualifies as the most poetic feature to grace the silver screen, it certainly earns that honour where Berlin is concerned.

| Jun 13, 2018