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Metascore
20 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100Austin ChronicleAustin ChronicleSome movies are like Dorothy's twister; they just pick you up and whisk you away from the commonplace world you know to a world wondrous and astonishing. Days of Heaven is such a movie. [27 July 1998]
- 100Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertAbove all one of the most beautiful films ever made. Malick's purpose is not to tell a story of melodrama, but one of loss. His tone is elegiac. He evokes the loneliness and beauty of the limitless Texas prairie. [7 Dec. 1997]
- 100TV Guide MagazineTV Guide MagazineDirector Malick endows this simple, timeless story with the enormous scope and resonance of myth through a clear vision unclouded by sentimentality and by a deft juxtaposition of image, music, and character.
- 100Village VoiceMichael AtkinsonVillage VoiceMichael AtkinsonIt seems almost incontestably...the most gorgeously photographed film ever made. [23 March 1999]
- 100Chicago TribuneMichael WilmingtonChicago TribuneMichael WilmingtonDays of Heaven is the grand climax of the whole "Bonnie and Clyde"-"Badlands" tradition of outlaw-lovers-on-the-run movies. Shot by Nestor Almendros and the uncredited Haskell Wexler, it's a cinematographic masterpiece. [20 March 1998]
- 100Chicago ReaderDave KehrChicago ReaderDave KehrThe result is a film that hovers just beyond our grasp--mysterious, beautiful, and, very possibly, a masterpiece.
- 100The GuardianPeter BradshawThe GuardianPeter BradshawThe film, with its transcendentally beautiful visuals...is a rich and rewarding experience. [1 Sept. 2011]
- 63ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliThe film has too much surface beauty not to earn it a recommendation, but Days of Heaven satisfies only on a sensory level.
- It is full of elegant and striking photography; and it is an intolerably artsy, artificial film.