This week, the top five films about angels and demons. Writers were told, “Don’t be too loose, but neither too stringent” in definitions, and here’s what they came back with:
Rikki Elizabeth Stinnette
1. It’s a Wonderful Life
2. The Dark Knight Trilogy
3. A Christmas Carol (1999 Patrick Stewart version)
4. The Passion of the Christ
5. The Family Man
Remy Wilkins
1. Solyaris (Andrei Tarkovsky)
2. Take Shelter (Jeff Nichols)
3. Let the Right One In (Tomas Alfredson)
4. A Serious Man (Coen Bros.)
5. Hellboy (Guillermo del Toro)
Joshua Gibbs
1. Wings of Desire
2. A Life Less Ordinary
3. The Addiction
4. Night Watch
5. Prisoners/ Rosemary’s Baby (tie)
Timothy Lawrence
1. 12 Angry Men
2. It’s A Wonderful Life
3. The Passion of the Christ
4. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
5. The Truman Show
Sean Johnson
1. Wings of Desire
2. Gravity (esp. Kowalski)
3. The Seventh Seal
4. It’s A Wonderful Life
5. Heaven Can Wait [‘78 remake]
Christian Leithart
1. Ink
2. Hellboy
3. Howl’s Moving Castle
4. Leon: The Professional
5. Spider-Man
Brian Murnion
1. Simon of the Desert
2. Wings of Desire
3. Magnolia (…confusing children with angels…)
4. The Last Temptation of Christ
5. Meet Joe Black
