City of Angels

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babarizam D One of my all time fav but I have never watched it second time because the taste of first time is so sweet and tender on my lips that I dont want to misplaced. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 10/30/25 Full Review Brent H My wife and I saw this in theaters the weekend it came out in 1998. However, recently, we've been revisiting and rewatching various films that our son hasn't seen yet. He picked out "City Of Angels" as one he wanted to see, so we watched it again as he saw it for the first time. While I enjoyed the film the first time I watched it over 25 years ago, seeing it again with a ton of life experience sandwiched in between, I found myself appreciating it much more now. There are certain things I didn't notice during my initial viewing. "Maggie Rice," the character Meg Ryan portrays, says, "Those eyes. The way he looked right... right down into me." It's taken me this long to make the correlation between that line and the song "Iris" that the Goo Goo Dolls contribute to the soundtrack. The title of the song always confused me, but with this new context, I'm ashamed I didn't see it sooner. Nowadays, a movie that references heaven, angels, or the afterlife is often embraced by one particular audience and dismissed by another. I'm not sure if this movie would garner the type of attention it deserves if it were released in 2025. Whatever your outlook on the afterlife is, that's not the point the film is trying to address. There are several layers intertwined within the story, including relinquishing control, recognizing true love, and appreciating the things we take for granted daily. The best line, however you choose to interpret it, is delivered twice by two different characters, "Some things are true whether you believe them or not." At times, it can be a challenging movie for some to watch, but I walked away with a peace I didn't understand when I first saw it at 20. Time and life experiences have a way of making you look at things from a slightly different perspective. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 10/29/25 Full Review Jonathan E The whole movie is worth watching just to see the conversation where Meg Ryan finally asks Cage, "Are you a drummer?" Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 10/04/25 Full Review Kathy W The first 3/4 of this movie are really good. Some beautiful spiritual messages here. Critical reviews of those messages say more about the observer than the observed. Unfortunately, once the angel becomes human the movie becomes Hollywood sap, which is too bad. Wish someone other than Nicholas Cage had played the angel, but still a good movie for those who wish to see. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 09/05/25 Full Review Marcos David C Mediocre version of “Wings Of Desire” Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 09/02/25 Full Review Daniel C. M Romance is far from being my thing, but i still really enjoyed this one. This movie in particular has a amazing and distinct cinematography, direction, soundtrack and sound design, i find it to be really underrated in this aspect; it really stood out to me, and it showed that this movie is more than a simple romance movie. The story, honestly, felt..."special" to me...i don't really know why, but i felt it like this Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 08/24/25 Full Review Read all reviews

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