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Review of Please Stand By (2018)

By Mike D'angelo (730) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 23 Jan 2018

It’s hard to be persuasive, though, when your protagonist comes across as a collection of quirky tics rather than a credible human being…

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Review of In Between (2018)

By Mike D'angelo (730) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 03 Jan 2018

In Between suffers when cross-cutting among its three similar yet disparate storylines, and is strongest during moments that see righteous…

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Review of In Between (2018)

By Mike D'angelo (730) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 03 Jan 2018

In Between suffers when cross-cutting among its three similar yet disparate storylines, and is strongest during moments that see righteous…

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Review of In the Fade (2017)

By Mike D'angelo (730) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 19 Dec 2017

The film’s third act plays like a nihilistic Liam Neeson thriller, with Kruger struggling in vain to make Katja’s actions remotely believable…

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Review of Molly's Game (2017)

By Mike D'angelo (730) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 15 Dec 2017

The same fundamental strengths and weaknesses — the former usually outweighing the latter, happily — are evident in all of his movies,…

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Review of The Daughter (2015)

By Mike D'angelo (730) for AV Club (2,778) on 14 Dec 2017

The Daughter, while sticking close in broad outline to Ibsen's 1884 masterpiece, moves with a fluid grace that's wholly cinematic…

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Review of Loveless (2017)

By Mike D'angelo (730) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 29 Nov 2017

Leviathan (2014) pushed pitiless corruption into something like black comedy; Loveless is anything but funny, but does at least acknowledge…

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Review of Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond (2017)

By Mike D'angelo (730) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 15 Nov 2017

There’s something bracing about the difficulty of reconciling this earnest middle-aged hippie with his maniacally impish younger self…

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Review of On the Beach at Night Alone (2017)

By Mike D'angelo (730) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 15 Nov 2017

It’s also somehow simultaneously one of his (Hong Sang-soo) most straightforward, emotionally direct movies and the weirdest damn thing he’s…

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Review of Princess Cyd (2017)

By Mike D'angelo (730) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 01 Nov 2017

So many movies are all sizzle and no steak; it’s kind of refreshing, in a way, to be frustrated by all steak and no sizzle…

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Review of Novitiate (2017)

By Mike D'angelo (730) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 24 Oct 2017

Betts appears to have started out with a rather mundane idea and then stumbled, over the course of her research, onto something much more fruitful…

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Review of Félicité (2017)

By Mike D'angelo (730) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 24 Oct 2017

The film’s tonal range is formidable enough to suggest that this director may be a major talent who’s now emerging from relative obscurity,…

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Review of Geostorm (2017)

By Mike D'angelo (730) for AV Club (2,778) on 19 Oct 2017

Butler sleepwalks through his thinly written role, and the ostensible tension between the two brothers, flaring up whenever the energy starts…

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Review of Jane (2016)

By Mike D'angelo (730) for AV Club (2,778) on 17 Oct 2017

Jane boasts one thing that its predecessors did not: a treasure trove of truly stunning 16mm footage shot in the early 1960s by famed nature…

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Review of Jane (2017)

By Mike D'angelo (730) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 16 Oct 2017

Jane boasts one thing that its predecessors did not: a treasure trove of truly stunning 16mm footage shot in the early 1960s by famed nature…

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Review of Brawl in Cell Block 99 (2017)

By Mike D'angelo (730) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 03 Oct 2017

Equally remarkable and counterintuitive is Vaughn’s performance…

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Review of Flatliners (2017)

By Mike D'angelo (730) for AV Club (2,778) on 28 Sep 2017

Flatliners 2017 is the same dumb movie as Flatliners 1990, minus most of the surface charisma…

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Review of Lucky (2017)

By Mike D'angelo (730) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 25 Sep 2017

It’s a remarkable gift to fans and cinephiles that Lucky serves as a first-rate showcase for its star as well as an ideal swan song…

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Review of Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House (2017)

By Mike D'angelo (730) for AV Club (2,778) on 25 Sep 2017

Unfortunately, Felt’s actions, while historically important, don’t exactly make for riveting drama, especially compared to a classic about…

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Review of The Force (2017)

By Mike D'angelo (730) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 18 Sep 2017

To his credit, director Peter Nicks (The Waiting Room) accepts the dispiriting trajectory that this initially hopeful film ultimately takes—there’s…

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Mike D'angelo has written reviews for:

Village Voice (8,525)
Time Out (7,510)
Entertainment Weekly (6,953)
The A.V. Club (5,644)
L.A. Weekly (3,142)
AV Club (2,778)
The Dissolve (1,478)

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