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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 100
    Austin Chronicle |

    Some 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. (Review of Original Release) Read full review

  • 100
    Chicago Reader | Dave Kehr

    The result is a film that hovers just beyond our grasp--mysterious, beautiful, and, very possibly, a masterpiece. Read full review

  • 100
    TV Guide |

    The sound alone is astonishing. Morricone's haunting, wistful score adds measurably to the sweep and timelessness of the film. (Review of Original Release) Read full review

  • 100
    Chicago Tribune | Michael Wilmington

    It's Malick's best. Read full review

  • 100
    Variety |

    A dramatically moving and technically breathtaking American art film, one of the great cinematic achievements of the 1970s. (Review of Original Release) Read full review

  • 100
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    Above 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. (Review of December 7, 1997) Read full review

  • 90
    The New York Times | Elvis Mitchell

    As haunting as its vision of a crystal glass dropped into moonlit water. It lives up to its title. (Reviewed in 1999) Read full review

  • 80
    Village Voice | Michael Atkinson

    Almost incontestably the most gorgeously photographed film ever made. Read full review

  • 63
    ReelViews | James Berardinelli

    The film has too much surface beauty not to earn it a recommendation, but Days of Heaven satisfies only on a sensory level. (Review of Original Release) Read full review

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