Reviews3/3/21Mar 3SaveReviews3/3/21B-ReviewsCop comedy Keep An Eye Out has the anything-goes absurdity of a closing SNL sketchMike D'Angelo4Note: The writer of this review watched Keep An Eye Out on a digital screener from home. Before making the decision…
Recommends3/2/21Mar 2SaveRecommends3/2/21RecommendsRobert Downey Jr.’s Sherlock Holmes has nothing on the rodent versionMike D'Angelo103Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just…
Recommends2/15/21Feb 15SaveRecommends2/15/21RecommendsBeloved’s least-famous star delivered its greatest performanceMike D'Angelo16Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just…
Reviews2/9/21Feb 91Reviews2/9/21A-ReviewsThe delightfully offbeat French Exit offers Michelle Pfeiffer her best role in agesMike D'Angelo18Note: The writer of this review watched French Exit on a digital screener from home. Before making the decision to…
Recommends2/8/21Feb 8SaveRecommends2/8/21RecommendsCan you have a great love triangle when one of the three isn’t in love?Mike D'Angelo38Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just…
Reviews2/2/21Feb 2SaveReviews2/2/21C+ReviewsSibling rivalry and diseased sheep drive the sentimental Sam Neill drama RamsMike D'Angelo17Faithfully remaking a movie can serve as a kind of controlled experiment, revealing what happens if one seemingly…
Recommends1/27/21Jan 271Recommends1/27/21RecommendsCrooks become cops in one of the first and still best serial-killer moviesMike D'Angelo32Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just…
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 more72Any 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'Angelo12Watch 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'Angelo57Watch 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…