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Slouching Toward Redemption: Ernst Lubitsch’s ‘Heaven Can Wait’

Slouching Toward Redemption: Ernst Lubitsch’s ‘Heaven Can Wait’

There's a rotten core at the center of Lubitsch's Heaven Can Wait. No matter how engaging I find Haskell and Sariss's enchantment with the film, I cannot accede to their critical adulation of it and of Henry.

Heaven Can Wait: Criterion Collection (1943)