Only Angels Have Wings 1939

Critics score:
100 / 100

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Frank S. Nugent, New York Times: It's a fairly good melodrama, nothing more. Read more

Michael Sragow, New Yorker: Howard Hawks's stirring tale of a fledgling airmail service that traverses the Andes from a strip in a South American banana port is the ultimate workplace dramedy. Read more

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Tom Huddleston, Time Out: 'Only Angels Have Wings' uses its paper-thin plot as an excuse to mount a scalpel-sharp analysis of men under pressure: bitching, blaming and refusing to back down. Read more

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