Reviews1/26/21Jan 26SaveReviews1/26/21CReviewsEven Naomi Watts can’t fly above the inspirational pap of Netflix’s Penguin BloomMike D'Angelo17No penguins appear in Netflix’s new weepie Penguin Bloom, and a cynical person might assume that such a misleading…
Reviews1/19/21Jan 191Reviews1/19/21C+ReviewsA confounding, oddly titled Oscar hopeful shrugs off its own intriguing mysteryMike D'Angelo8Note: The writer of this review watched Preparations To Be Together For An Unknown Period Of Time on a digital…
Reviews1/13/21Jan 13SaveReviews1/13/21CReviewsNetflix’s Outside The Wire is Training Day meets The Terminator, but much less fun than eitherMike D'Angelo22“King Kong ain’t got shit on me!” boasts Denzel Washington’s corrupt cop toward the end of Training Day. That wasn’t…
Best Of12/17/20Dec 171Best Of12/17/20Best OfThe best films of 2020: The ballotsA.A. Dowd, Katie Rife, Charles Bramesco, Mike D'Angelo, and 8 more11Don’t trust anyone who says it’s impossible to make a best movies list in 2020. There were plenty of films to like…
Best Of12/17/20Dec 173Best Of12/17/20Best OfThe best films of 2020A.A. Dowd, Katie Rife, Jesse Hassenger, Beatrice Loayza, and 8 more162For one blissful month, it seemed like the defining moment of movie culture this year might be the most joyful one,…
Best Of12/9/20Dec 92Best Of12/9/20Best OfThe best movie scenes of 2020A.A. Dowd, Allison Shoemaker, Alex McLevy, and 16 more69Any movie can achieve a moment of greatness. We’re talking about those few minutes that stick with you for a…
Reviews12/8/20Dec 8SaveReviews12/8/20B-ReviewsMeryl Streep improvises on the ocean in Steven Soderbergh’s playful Let Them All TalkMike D'Angelo8Set almost entirely onboard the Queen Mary 2, Cunard’s trans-Atlantic ocean liner, Steven Soderbergh’s latest film…
Reviews12/2/20Dec 2SaveReviews12/2/20B+ReviewsThe gripping 76 Days chronicles the chaotic start of the COVID-19 outbreakMike D'Angelo3One of the three people who directed 76 Days, a documentary portrait of the COVID-19 crisis in Wuhan, is credited…
Recommends11/23/20Nov 23SaveRecommends11/23/20RecommendsEven the flunkies have a dazzling way with words in this early screwball comedyMike D'Angelo15Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just…
Recommends11/18/20Nov 181Recommends11/18/20RecommendsSupercop is one of the best threequels, even though it wasn’t released as one in AmericaMike D'Angelo10Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just…
Reviews11/17/20Nov 17SaveReviews11/17/20C+ReviewsThe Last Vermeer tells an irresistible true story… after a lot of useless misdirectionMike D'Angelo5Note: The writer of this review watched The Last Vermeer from home. Before making the decision to see it—or any…
Recommends11/10/20Nov 10SaveRecommends11/10/20RecommendsWerner Herzog remembers his favorite leading man—and the living hell of working with himMike D'Angelo55Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just…
Reviews11/10/20Nov 101Reviews11/10/20BReviewsWerner Herzog chases meteorites and those who love them in Fireball: Visitors From Darker WorldsMike D'AngeloAlmost every interview subject in Werner Herzog’s latest documentary gets introduced with a prolonged, silent…
Reviews11/3/20Nov 3SaveReviews11/3/20D+ReviewsA Norwegian setting is the only unique thing about the superhero rehash MortalMike D'Angelo9At this point, who is still yearning for more movies about mysterious superpowers and the attempt to harness them?…
Recommends11/2/20Nov 21Recommends11/2/20RecommendsIt only took two movies for Newman and Redford to become an iconic onscreen duoMike D'Angelo88Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just…
Recommends10/27/20Oct 271Recommends10/27/20RecommendsHouse Of Wax unleashed the devilish horror star lurking within Vincent PriceMike D'Angelo29Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just…
Reviews10/27/20Oct 27SaveReviews10/27/20BReviewsFrederick Wiseman’s mammoth-length City Hall finds humanity alongside the bureaucracyMike D'Angelo25In many respects, City Hall looks like a documentary that Frederick Wiseman might have made four or five decades…
Recommends10/20/20Oct 20SaveRecommends10/20/20RecommendsFrance’s answer to Hitchcock earned the comparisons with an all-time-great thrillerMike D'Angelo20Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just…
Reviews10/14/20Oct 14SaveReviews10/14/20C-ReviewsPost-apocalyptic romance Love And Monsters makes an untimely case for leaving the bunkerMike D'Angelo27Give Love And Monsters credit: If nothing else, it does at least come up with a new (albeit ludicrous) twist on the…
Reviews10/9/20Oct 9SaveReviews10/9/20CReviewsRobert De Niro family flick The War With Grandpa buries a cute premise under dumb pratfallsMike D'Angelo13Note: The writer of this review watched The War With Grandpa from home on a digital screener. Before making the…