Mike D'Angelo
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Reviews
'Drive' is a stylistic, memorable thriller
Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2011 Remember those '80s action movies? Then you'll probably enjoy 'Drive'
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Film
2011 Fall A+E Guide: Film
Thursday, Sept. 8, 2011 Sigmund Freud! Eternal 25-year-olds! The Muppets! Justin Timberlake!
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A&E
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
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Screen
Film review: 'The Guard'
Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2011 As buddy cop movies go, 'The Guard' is slightly better than most, but not by much
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Film review: 'Our Idiot Brother'
Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2011 Paul Rudd is terrific in 'Idiot Brother'; the rest of the film is not
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Film
Kitten voiceovers and homicidal clothes make 'The Future' overly twee
Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2011 How much sincere, cloying quirk can a viewer tolerate?
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Reviews
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.
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A&E
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.
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Reviews
Film review: 'Project Nim'
Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2011 Documentary 'Project Nim' misses a golden opportunity to teach us about language
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Reviews
Film review: 'Crazy, Stupid, Love'
Wednesday, July 27, 2011 'Crazy, Stupid, Love' is a notch above other mainstream film comedies
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Film
Serious drama ... from the director of 'Twilight'?
Wednesday, July 6, 2011 'A Better Life' borrows from 'The Bicycle Thief' with mixed results.
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Film
'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.
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Film review: 'Bad Teacher'
Wednesday, June 22, 2011 It's no 'Bad Santa,' but 'Bad Teacher' isn't, well, bad
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'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
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Reviews
Woody Allen wastes a good premise in 'Midnight in Paris'
Wednesday, June 8, 2011 Woody Allen's latest misses some golden opportunities
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Film
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.
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Reviews
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
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Reviews
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?
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A&E
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.
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A&E
'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.
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A&E
'Hanna' combines elegant visuals with tense excitement
Wednesday, April 6, 2011 Director Joe Wright's new flick hits theaters Friday.
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Reviews
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
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Reviews
Stoner alien flick 'Paul' is fitfully funny
Wednesday, March 16, 2011 There’s something oddly dispiriting about the basic comic premise of Paul...
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A&E
'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!
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A&E
'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.
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Film
Movie review: 'The Illusionist'
Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2011 How does this French animated movie stack up against Toy Story 3?
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A&E
Movie review: 'Somewhere'
Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2011 Sofia Coppola turns her attention to the travails of the poor.
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Film
'The Company Men' is sympathetic but uninspired
Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2011 The movie as a whole comes across as vaguely pointless.
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Reviews
'Rabbit Hole' is honest and intelligent but a little rote
Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2011 Now, inevitably, comes the film adaptation.
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Reviews
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.
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A&E
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.
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A&E
The Year in Review: Film and TV
Thursday, Dec. 30, 2010 Our critics pick their favorite films and shows from 2010.
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A&E
'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.
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A&E
'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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Film
'How Do You Know' is rough but lively
Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2010 For all its rough patches, the film boasts the one element sorely missing from most Hollywood rom-coms: a pulse.
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Film
'127 Hours' is riveting, gruesome and fascinating
Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2010 By golly, it kind of works!
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Film
'Fair Game' makes middling drama from real-life headlines
Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2010 Not every big scandal should be a movie, people.
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A&E
‘Morning Glory’ is affable fluff
Thursday, Nov. 11, 2010 Morning Glory tales the tale behind the people delivering your news. But does the movie itself deliver?
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Film
'Inside Job' is a documentary for the uninformed
Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2010 Restating the obvious about the evils of Wall Street.
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Film
Pat Tillman's story is fascinating, the movie is not
Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2010 Tillman himself remains fascinating; the story of his tragic death and its fairly brief cover-up, much less so.
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Film
'Stone,' starring De Niro, Norton and Jovovich, is unusually bracing
Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2010 Not that there’s some big twist or anything—you just wouldn’t expect this kind of high-concept, star-driven American film to be so relentlessly interior.
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Film
Education doc 'Waiting for Superman' fuels outrage
Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2010 “Superman” successfully jerks your tears and fuels your outrage, but it’s more a recruiting tool than a movie.
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Film
'Kind of' isn’t good enough: The halfhearted 'Funny Story' feels sorta stale
Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2010 Despite its capable cast, the film has little more to offer than stale platitudes and canned one-liners.
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Film
Mysterious documentary 'Catfish' is a complex surprise
Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2010 You’re better off knowing as little as possible in advance.
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Film
The new 'Wall Street' is preachy and cartoonish
Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2010 As opportunistic, decades-later sequels go, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps makes a bit more sense than most.
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Film
'Lebanon' is no 'Apocalypse Now'
Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2010 Confined almost entirely to the interior of a single tank, Lebanon is Israeli director Samuel Maoz’s fictionalized account of his harrowing experiences in the 1982 Lebanon War.
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Film
'I’m Still Here' may be a joke, but that doesn’t make it funny
Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2010 Joaquin Phoenix "documentary" is more fun to hear about than to actually experience.
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Film
Crime drama 'Animal Kingdom' can’t quite put its tension to full use
Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2010 David Michôd’s promising but scattershot feature debut Animal Kingdom thrusts a wary young rabbit into a den of jackals and watches to see if he'll make it out alive.
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'Machete' was better as a mock trailer
Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010 This ostensible homage to ’70s sleaze feel more like a late-night comedy sketch.
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'Get Low' is an affecting showcase for Robert Duvall
Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2010 Get Low won’t likely be Duvall’s final film, but it functions nonetheless as a sort of crusty valediction.