Reviews4/28/21Apr 28SaveReviews4/28/21B-ReviewsNobody passes go in Iceland’s monopoly drama The CountyMike D'Angelo9Note: The writer of this review watched The County on a digital screener from home. Before making the decision to…
Reviews4/22/21Apr 22SaveReviews4/22/21BReviewsFour’s a crowd in Netflix’s involving deep-space survival saga StowawayMike D'Angelo59Having already stranded Mads Mikkelsen in the Arctic Circle, director Joe Penna apparently decided that his next…
Recommends4/21/21Apr 21SaveRecommends4/21/21RecommendsIn 1986, Dennis Hopper embodied good and evil. The Oscars chose goodMike D'Angelo71Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just…
Recommends4/14/21Apr 141Recommends4/14/21RecommendsForget the moon landing—Apollo 13 proves that botched missions are the ones to dramatizeMike D'Angelo94Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just…
Reviews4/6/21Apr 6SaveReviews4/6/21CReviewsBlindingly obvious subtext dims the scares of blackout horror movie The PowerMike D'Angelo11Moralism and horror have always gone hand in hand, but the recent trend toward ostensibly scary movies that clonk…
Recommends3/30/21Mar 30SaveRecommends3/30/21RecommendsMennonites in Mexico struggle with faith and infidelity in the sublime Silent LightMike D'Angelo7Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just…
Recommends3/22/21Mar 221Recommends3/22/21RecommendsThe original King Kong is the reigning granddaddy of Hollywood blockbustersMike D'Angelo84Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just…
Reviews3/16/21Mar 16SaveReviews3/16/21B-ReviewsEven Benedict Cumberbatch can’t make the real-life spy games of The Courier excitingMike D'Angelo21Note: The writer of this review watched The Courier on a digital screener from home. Before making the decision to…
Recommends3/16/21Mar 16SaveRecommends3/16/21RecommendsYou haven’t really seen the brilliant Margaret unless you’ve seen the extended cutMike D'Angelo30Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just…
Recommends3/9/21Mar 92Recommends3/9/21RecommendsThe ’90s are less of a distraction from ’70s sitcom artificiality in A Very Brady SequelMike D'Angelo100Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just…
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'Angelo102Watch 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'Angelo36Watch 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'Angelo31Watch 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…