Mike D'Angelo
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Screen‘Phantom Thread’ delivers a bracing, unconventional romance
Thursday, Jan. 18, 2018 Only toward the end does director Paul Thomas Anderson’s long game finally become apparent.
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ScreenGary Oldman becomes Winston Churchill in the uneven ‘Darkest Hour’
Thursday, Dec. 21, 2017 The film takes a deep dive into political machinations, as a wing of Churchill’s war council pressures him to negotiate with Hitler.
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ScreenDenzel Washington strains to play a neurotic lawyer in ‘Roman J. Israel, Esq.’
Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2017 It's not a terrible performance, but the sweat is visible.
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ScreenMilitary veterans reunite in ‘Last Flag Flying’
Thursday, Nov. 16, 2017 This film will be only a footnote in Richard Linklater’s rich career.
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Screen‘Wonder’ treats its sensitive subject a little too carefully
Thursday, Nov. 16, 2017 Director Stephen Chbosky deftly avoids many of the mawkish pitfalls endemic to this sort of inspirational story.
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ScreenThere’s no cheer in ‘A Bad Moms Christmas’
Thursday, Nov. 2, 2017 The original film came out only 16 months ago. This is quite a rush job.
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ScreenGeorge Clooney ineffectively resurrects a Coen brothers script in ‘Suburbicon’
Thursday, Oct. 26, 2017 Reportedly, it was among the earliest screenplays written by Joel and Ethan Coen.
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ScreenDarren Aronofsky’s bold ‘Mother!’ is one of 2017’s best films
Thursday, Sept. 14, 2017 Viewers expecting a traditional, psychologically plausible narrative will wind up feeling cheated, even trolled, as it slowly metamorphoses into an unrepentant art film.
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Screen‘The Glass Castle’ makes compelling drama from family turbulence
Thursday, Aug. 10, 2017 Adapted from former gossip columnist Jeannette Walls’ 2005 memoir, the film focuses on the turbulent relationship between Jeannette and her father.
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ScreenAl Gore has nothing new to say in ‘An Inconvenient Sequel’
Thursday, Aug. 3, 2017 It’s a bit like pressing the elevator button again in the hope that doing so will somehow speed things along.
