Here are some reviews for a movie: 1. As raw and immediate as it is heartfelt.
2. film portraiture of rare intelligence and subtlety
3. While that's not enough to make me go crazy over this one (like some people), it is enough for me to genuflect quite a bit in awe of good characters and good details done.
4. Using decidedly unglamorous locales and stars, director Erick Zonca has given the story what amounts to an almost documentary feel; Isa and Marie seem so true-to-life at times you might feel a bit voyeuristic.
5. It mopes around most of the time with not much to say.
6. Just a bunch of uninteresting characters who spend their time co-existing in an uneasy friendship, smoking too much, and having sex with people who are even worse than them.
7. It's a compelling work about loneliness and two ways of dealing with it.
8. We aren't just watching Isa and Marie endure the tiny triumphs and hardships of their lives; we're experiencing those ups and downs alongside them.
9. Completely absorbing, almost rudely poignant.
10. Heralds a humanist cinema that neither shortchanges our minds nor cheapens what's in our hearts.

What was the overall consensus about the movie?
Showcasing excellent lead performances, The Dreamlife of Angels is an intelligent, absorbing character study of two women.