Mike D'Angelo
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- Freud/Jung biopic 'A Dangerous Method' feels too tame
- Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012
- 'The real danger here is that the audience might be talked to death.'
- 'Haywire' delivers brutal hand-to-hand beat-downs—and more
- Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012
- MMA fighter Gina Carano stars in filmmaker Soderbergh's latest magic act.
- Film review: 'Shame'
- Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012
- Don't let the NC-17 rating fool you; 'Shame' is a bit of a downer
- The not-quite golden silence of 'The Artist'
- Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2012
- So long as it’s merely striving to entertain, it’s thoroughly delightful.
- Film review: 'Carnage'
- Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2012
- Roman Polanski's latest movie, 'Carnage', is just a wallow in ugliness
- The Year in Review: Film and TV
- Thursday, Dec. 29, 2011
- Our critics pick their favorite films and shows from 2011.
- 'Girl With the Dragon Tattoo' is ungainly in English, too
- Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2011
- The Hollywood version is livelier, but comes off as shallow as its Swedish counterpart.
- Film review: 'Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol'
- Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2011
- 'Mission Impossible' franchise keeps the thrills coming, and isn't that what it's all about?
- Film review: 'Like Crazy'
- Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2011
- This film beat 'Martha Marcy May Marlene' at Sundance?!
- Film: Martin Scorsese’s 'Hugo' is a hollow spectacle
- Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2011
- Famed director's 3D CGI marvel could use a dose of magic.
- 'Martha Marcy May Marlene' is one of the year's best films
- Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2011
- It may be a tough title to remember come Oscar time, but 'Martha Marcy May Marlene' will be a contender
- Film review: 'The Skin I Live in'
- Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2011
- Pedro Almodovar's latest is a look at the dark side of plastic surgery
- Johnny Depp revisits Hunter S. Thompson in 'The Rum Diary'
- Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2011
- Depp does his utmost to sell us on the scuzzy romance of blackout alcoholism. I’m still not buying it.
- Comedy 'The Big Year' is for the birds
- Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2011
- Jack Black, Steve Martin and Owen Wilson star as bird-watchers. No joke.
- Film review: 'Restless'
- Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2011
- Gus Van Sant's latest movie is a twee mess
- Film review: 'Circumstance'
- Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2011
- 'Circumstance' deals with a controversial subject, but ends up feeling very ... ordinary.
- 'Drive' is a stylistic, memorable thriller
- Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2011
- Remember those '80s action movies? Then you'll probably enjoy 'Drive'
- 2011 Fall A+E Guide: Film
- Thursday, Sept. 8, 2011
- Sigmund Freud! Eternal 25-year-olds! The Muppets! Justin Timberlake!
- The end of the world happens way too quickly in 'Contagion'
- Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2011
- Soderbergh keeps things moving in 'Contagion'; too fast, in fact
- Film review: 'The Guard'
- Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2011
- As buddy cop movies go, 'The Guard' is slightly better than most, but not by much
- Film review: 'Our Idiot Brother'
- Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2011
- Paul Rudd is terrific in 'Idiot Brother'; the rest of the film is not
- Kitten voiceovers and homicidal clothes make 'The Future' overly twee
- Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2011
- How much sincere, cloying quirk can a viewer tolerate?
- Film review: 'The Devil’s Double'
- Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2011
- It’s like a Batman movie in which Batman isn’t even permitted the dignity of fighting crime, merely watching from the wings as a gleefully amoral supervillain steals scene after scene.
- Film review: 'Life in a Day'
- Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2011
- A call for submissions on YouTube led 80,000 amateur videographers to submit their material for the Kevin Macdonald-directed project.
- Film review: 'Project Nim'
- Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2011
- Documentary 'Project Nim' misses a golden opportunity to teach us about language
- Film review: 'Crazy, Stupid, Love'
- Wednesday, July 27, 2011
- 'Crazy, Stupid, Love' is a notch above other mainstream film comedies
- Serious drama ... from the director of 'Twilight'?
- 'A Better Life' borrows from 'The Bicycle Thief' with mixed results
- Wednesday, July 6, 2011
- 'A Better Life' borrows from 'The Bicycle Thief' with mixed results.
- 'Beginners' is surprisingly moving and has a subtitled Jack Russell terrier
- Wednesday, June 29, 2011
- What if your father suddenly came out of the closet at age 75, immediately following your mother’s death? That really happened to writer-director Mike Mills.
- Film review: 'Bad Teacher'
- Wednesday, June 22, 2011
- It's no 'Bad Santa,' but 'Bad Teacher' isn't, well, bad
- 'Tree of Life' is almost the best movie ever
- Wednesday, June 15, 2011
- Mike D'Angelo says 'Tree of Life comes close to being the best movie of all time
- Woody Allen wastes a good premise in 'Midnight in Paris'
- Wednesday, June 8, 2011
- Woody Allen's latest misses some golden opportunities
- Highlights from the 2011 Cannes Film Festival encompass the entire history of the universe
- Wednesday, May 25, 2011
- Every Cannes Film Festival develops its own narrative, but this year’s lineup presented a truly epic philosophical showdown between two of the world’s most revered auteurs, each of whom audaciously married the personal and the cosmic.
- Film review: 'POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold'
- Wednesday, May 18, 2011
- Product placement in a movie about product placement? We need a Tums
- Film review: 'In a Better World'
- Wednesday, May 4, 2011
- Is the Oscar winner for Best Foreign Language Film really the best of the year?
- Robert Pattinson sinks the already trite 'Water for Elephants'
- Wednesday, April 20, 2011
- Twilight's Pattinson is upstaged by his Oscar-winning costars. Did he sink it alone? Find out here.
- 'Win Win' is a nimble seriocomedy
- Wednesday, April 6, 2011
- Check out Weekly writer Mike D'Angelo's review of Paul Giamatti's new flick right here.
- 'Hanna' combines elegant visuals with tense excitement
- Wednesday, April 6, 2011
- Director Joe Wright's new flick hits theaters Friday.
- Yet another pointless remake of 'Jane Eyre'
- Wednesday, March 30, 2011
- The latest remake of 'Jane Eyre' demonstrates why it doesn't make a great movie
- Stoner alien flick 'Paul' is fitfully funny
- Wednesday, March 16, 2011
- There’s something oddly dispiriting about the basic comic premise of Paul...
- 'Cedar Rapids' is a recycled man-child comedy
- Wednesday, March 2, 2011
- Do naive, small-town insurance salesmen make for good comedies? Find out here!
- 'Barney's Version' is flawed, yet still intriguing
- Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2011
- You might forget the story, but Barney's Version definitely provides a showcase for terrific actors.
- Movie review: 'The Illusionist'
- Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2011
- How does this French animated movie stack up against Toy Story 3?
- Movie review: 'Somewhere'
- Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2011
- Sofia Coppola turns her attention to the travails of the poor.
- 'The Company Men' is sympathetic but uninspired
- Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2011
- The movie as a whole comes across as vaguely pointless.
- 'Rabbit Hole' is honest and intelligent but a little rote
- Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2011
- Now, inevitably, comes the film adaptation.
- Seth Rogen and Michel Gondry fail to make 'The Green Hornet' remotely interesting
- Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2011
- 'The Green Hornet' isn’t a superhero action movie so much as a spoof of the genre.
- With crooning and cliches, 'Country Strong' is pretty weak
- Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2011
- Gwyneth sings, Tim doesn't, and Leighton Meester steals the show? Weekly write Mike D'Angelo discusses.
- The Year in Review: Film and TV
- Thursday, Dec. 30, 2010
- Our critics pick their favorite films and shows from 2010.
- 'The King’s Speech' has all the Oscar-bait elements
- Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2010
- If there’s one thing Hollywood loves more than an actor playing royalty, it’s an actor depicting a disability.
- 'I Love You Phillip Morris' combines farce and romance
- Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2010
- Ewan McGregor plays the titular character in I Love You Phillip Morris, opposite Jim Carey (playing real-life con artist Steven Jay Russell) as his homosexual lover.
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