Love in the Time of Cholera (film) the film, showed an unreleased final edition of the film to Gabriel García Márquez in Mexico who at the end of the film is said to have exclaimed "Bravo!" with a smile on his face. The film received mixed to negative reviews from critics. On the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, 25% of critics gave the film positive reviews, based on 110 reviews, with an average rating of 4.7/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Though beautifully filmed, the makers of "Love in the Time of Cholera" fail to transfer the novel's magic to the screen." On Metacritic, the film had an
The Time of the Angels the reader's imagination is addressed, responds and is satisfied." Also in the "New York Times", Charles Poore, while noting Murdoch's "preachy passages" and the book's "gothick novel" aspects, described her as a "born storyteller" and "The Time of the Angels" as the "newest and best" of her "excellent melodramas". In "The New York Review of Books" Denis Donoghue described the novel as "elegiac", "an anthology of defeats: magic, belief, prayer, love, and now perhaps poetry itself." "Kirkus Reviews" described the novel as a "mediocre work" partially because of her frequent novel writing, writing that the plot resembles her own earlier