Love in the Time of Cholera (film) average score of 44 out of 100, based on 27 reviews. "Time" rated it "D" and described it as "a serious contender [for] the worst movie ever made from a great novel ... Skip the film; reread the book." In her review in "Entertainment Weekly", Lisa Schwarzbaum also rated it "D" and called it a "turgid and lifeless movie adaptation", opining that "those who have read Gabriel García Márquez's glowing and sexy 1988 novel about one man's grand love for a woman who marries another are bound to be peevishly disappointed ... those who haven't read the book will now
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