Mike D'Angelo's posts

Critics tend to see all the same good movies and none of the same bad ones. That’s the major difference between a…

Set in the snowy, isolated northernmost reaches of Canada, Two Lovers And A Bear provides only a brief glimpse of…

Urban legends and false factoids rarely get past my bullshit meter, but I confess that I was surprised, a few years…

Even at their most cohesive, movies are still collections of individual moments. And any movie, no matter how bad or…

Burn Country opens with a scene so deliberately disorienting that people who see it at a multiplex may briefly…

Hundreds of movies come to American theaters every year. Sometimes they arrive at a rate of 20 per week, at least in…

In the years since the Twilight franchise made them megastars, Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson have worked with…

Getting hit by a car will ruin your day in any country, but it may be considerably more dangerous in China. Last…

As someone who considers Donald Trump grotesquely unqualified for the office he’ll soon hold (to the point where…

Always Shine announces itself immediately as a movie about actors. It opens with a close-up of Beth (Caitlin…

For cinephiles who prize mysterious, forbidding atmosphere over a straightforward narrative, it’s been a long wait…

This year’s Cannes jury whiffed badly with their awards, ignoring great work (Toni Erdmann, Paterson, Sonia Braga’s…

Anyone who’s yearned for a version of RoboCop devoid of satire, but suffused with the sensibility of Slipknot, will…

Back in 1992, China’s most renowned director (internationally, at least) and its most famous actress (ditto) teamed…

A thriller that takes a long time to get even remotely thrilling, Shut In spends much of its first half assembling…

Love and sex aren’t remotely the same thing, but movies frequently treat them as if they are. Mostly, it’s visual…

Unlike a lot of other advocacy docs—films that seek to raise awareness regarding some serious issue, often…

Whatever your conception of a farmer may be, Peter Dunning, the 68-year-old subject of Peter And The Farm, may…

Every year around this time, I find myself pondering the thin line between horror and suspense. When push comes to…

If Jim Jarmusch were a type of music, which one would he be? Over the course of three decades as a filmmaker, he’s…