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18 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertIt tells its story calmly and with great attention to human detail and, watching it, I found myself drawn in with a rare intensity.
- 80TV Guide MagazineTV Guide MagazineJane Campion has established a reputation for making slightly off-center films in which regular folks get glimpses of the darkness that lurks beneath the surfaces of their lives. An admirer of Frame's novels since she was a teenager, Campion builds her film around a heroine who defies Hollywood conventions; she's not beautiful or sexy or sophisticated, and her adventures are mostly intellectual.
- 80Washington PostHal HinsonWashington PostHal HinsonA big, sprawling, unshapely thing, insufferably verbose and, at the same time, touched with magnificence.
- 80EmpireDavid ParkinsonEmpireDavid ParkinsonCampion's grasp of her material is intellectually and emotionally assured, while Fox's extraordinary performance demonstrates an honesty, courage and power that's rarely attempted, let alone achieved.
- 78Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenAustin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenFrame's story is told with an intriguingly naked honesty but one that never drags the viewer into emotional prurience. It creates a fascinating portrait.
- 75Slant MagazineJake ColeSlant MagazineJake ColeJane Campion upends staid genre convention with an impressionistic approach to character.
- A great compliment to Campion is that the movie never seems less than genuine; it’s consciously anti-commercial. And when “An Angel at My Table” does steer toward a happy ending (this is a film about self-discovery and triumph, after all), even then it strives for gentle epiphany.
- For all of the casual brutality of the hospital scenes, An Angel at My Table seems a very gentle film about a woman of such a passionate nature.
- 67Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanTold in Campion’s fancifully fractured style, An Angel at My Table is very accomplished, but it’s also an epic act of perversity: a 2-hour-and-38-minute movie about a wallflower.
- For Americans, the measured accumulation of detail can be frustrating. It's like listening to a story about someone you barely know and being forced to prompt the teller, "And then? And then?"