Mike D'Angelo
Story Archive
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Reviews
Film review: 'Wanderlust'
Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012 'Wanderlust' is fitfully amusing -- but it is amusing nonetheless
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A&E
Film review: 'Pina'
Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012 Wim Wenders' 3D documentary works well as a primer on legendary dance choreographer Pina Bausch.
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A&E
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.'
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A&E
'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.
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Reviews
Film review: 'Shame'
Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012 Don't let the NC-17 rating fool you; 'Shame' is a bit of a downer
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Film
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.
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Reviews
Film review: 'Carnage'
Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2012 Roman Polanski's latest movie, 'Carnage', is just a wallow in ugliness
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A&E
The Year in Review: Film and TV
Thursday, Dec. 29, 2011 Our critics pick their favorite films and shows from 2011.
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A&E
'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.
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Reviews
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?
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A&E
Film review: 'Like Crazy'
Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2011 This film beat 'Martha Marcy May Marlene' at Sundance?!
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A&E
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.
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Reviews
'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
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Reviews
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
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Reviews
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.
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Reviews
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.
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Entertainment
Film review: 'Circumstance'
Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2011 'Circumstance' deals with a controversial subject, but ends up feeling very ... ordinary.
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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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Screen
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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Screen
Film review: 'Bad Teacher'
Wednesday, June 22, 2011 It's no 'Bad Santa,' but 'Bad Teacher' isn't, well, bad
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Screen
'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.