75
San Francisco Chronicle by Edward Guthmann
A mystical tale of two souls, joined in love but divided in society, seeking redemption and understanding before they pass to another plane.
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What are critics saying?
63
ReelViews by James Berardinelli
Heaven's tone is all wrong. The movie tries to be ethereal, but ends up seeming goofy.
50
New York Post by Jonathan Foreman
Turns out to be an exercise in flatulent pretension, puffed up with a bogus, empty "spirituality" and dependent on a plot filled with implausibilities.
83
Portland Oregonian by Kim Morgan
Not just love, but maybe an escape from a wretched world. We're not sure, but that's what makes Heaven so inexplicably, intriguingly soulful, even in its most remote and architectural instances.
50
TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh
The conclusion, clearly meant to feel ambiguously poetic, is distinctly unsatisfying.
75
Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert
Poetic in its sadness, and Blanchett's performance confirms her power once again.
90
The New York Times by Stephen Holden
Here the clinical, stopwatch precision of Mr. Tykwer's explorations of synchronicity and Kieslowski's warmer, metaphysically dreamy speculations about the role of chance and coincidence in human affairs synchronize into a film whose formal elegance is matched by its depth of feeling.
88
Philadelphia Inquirer by Steven Rea
Odd, and awkward in places, but its lyricism and power stay with you.
75
It's maddeningly chowderheaded, simplistic, pretentious, and not a little silly. You can't take your eyes off it.
75
Seattle Post-Intelligencer by William Arnold
Touching, transcendent love story.