Editing Angels with Dirty Faces (section)

===Contemporary consensus===
The [[review aggregator]] [[Rotten Tomatoes]] reports 100% of critics have given the film a positive review based on 21 reviews collected retrospectively, with an average rating of 8.05/10.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/angels_with_dirty_faces |title=Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) |website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]] |publisher=[[Fandango Media|Fandango]] |access-date=May 14, 2019}}</ref> In 2005, ''[[Slant Magazine]]'' praised ''Angels with Dirty Faces'' for being Warner's "best gangster movie". Awarding four out of four stars, Jeremiah Kipp said: "Rocky Sullivan embodies all the qualities we love about bad guys." Cagney "offers a real intensity and a sense of playfulness," even as he shoots "fellow gangsters" dead. The final, "climactic" scene of "cowardice is unparalleled in gangster movies, and the more Cagney begs and screams, the more [we are] amazed at how he reduces the hero worship of gangsters to nothing. [The film marks] Cagney's finest hour in a career filled with great performances."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.slantmagazine.com/dvd/angels-with-dirty-faces/ |title=DVD Review: Angels with Dirty Faces |last=Kipp |first=Jeremiah |date=February 2, 2005 |website=[[Slant Magazine]] |access-date=May 14, 2019}}</ref>