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Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: If you're looking for a defining Wenders image, try starting with the gloomy angels in overcoats in Wings Of Desire. Read more
Elvis Mitchell, New York Times: There may not be anyone else who is as capable of romanticizing bummed-out good taste as Mr. Wenders. Read more
Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: If you're a Wenders admirer and can give yourself over to his gorgeous verging-on-surreal vision, you can come away deeply moved. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: If any of these characters were half as resonant as Wenders appears to think they are, the film might have seemed charming instead of merely stranded. Read more
John Anderson, Newsday: Pretentious, indulgent, tiresome exercise in star-strutting and seediness. Read more
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Charles Taylor, Salon.com: There's a vacancy in The Million Dollar Hotel, and it's between Wim Wenders' ears. Read more
Bob Graham, San Francisco Chronicle: It is probably asking too much of this phantasmagoria that it make sense. Read more
David Stratton, Variety: Audiences partial to this rather rarefied material will find plenty to enjoy in the technically polished production, but those not on Wenders' wavelength will be seriously alienated. Read more
Michael Atkinson, Village Voice: Something of a monstrosity -- liquored self-indulgence taken to its own astral plane. Read more