Mike D'Angelo
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Cuts are sharper than expected in the clumsy Palestinian thriller Huda's Salon
Alternating between two women's stories, the latest from Paradise Now's Hany Abu-Assad diminishes both → Read More
Tom Holland and Mark Wahlberg retrace familiar action-movie routes in Uncharted
Adapted from the popular video game series, the whole thing plays like ersatz Indiana Jones → Read More
Zoë Kravitz can’t escape big tech’s eyes and ears in Steven Soderbergh’s fun Kimi
Alexa, play an entertainingly dumb techno-thriller → Read More
Moonfall is a moonfail
When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that’s… not exciting enough → Read More
One of the most famous Christmas songs ever is actually a real downer
“Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas,” one of the most frequently played holiday songs, is both somber and beautiful → Read More
Tilda Swinton hears a strange sound in the magnificently mysterious Memoria
Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Cannes prizewinner transforms "exploding head syndrome" into an offbeat odyssey → Read More
Peter Dinklage and his perfectly ordinary nose make for a solid Cyrano
Were his singing as strong as his acting, it might have been a great Cyrano → Read More
Only those with a stomach for nonstop anxiety should watch White Lie
A college kid fakes a cancer diagnosis in this riveting, deliberately opaque character study → Read More
Identifying as an animal takes on extra baggage in the thin, iffy parable Wolf
For George MacKay and Lily-Rose Depp, being human ain’t all it’s cracked up to be → Read More
Sandra Bullock shows off her tediously stoic side in Netflix’s The Unforgivable
Adapted from a three-part British miniseries, this thriller/melodrama seems to have lost a lot in translation → Read More
Joaquin Phoenix is unusually grounded in the family drama C’mon C’mon
Having made films about his mother and father, Mike Mills turns his attention to the uncle → Read More
Mayor Pete can’t find the warmth beneath the wonk of the former presidential candidate
Pete Buttigieg isn’t a terribly exciting documentary subject… which is part of what makes the documentary about him interesting → Read More
Tom Hanks stars in the oddly amiable post-apocalyptic drama Finch
It's the end of the world as we know it, and you'll feel fine → Read More
Benedict Cumberbatch and Claire Foy do their best to electrify a drab biopic
The Electrical Life Of Louis Wain is about a famous artist, but his art is the least interesting part of the movie → Read More
Nicolas Cage isn't nuts enough in the fitfully demented Prisoners Of the Ghostland
Too rarely does Sion Sono's first movie in English achieve any gonzo fun → Read More
Mountain-climbing doc The Alpinist is stunning—when the subject lets the directors shoot
Canadian climber Marc-André Leclerc doesn’t exactly facilitate the movie made about him → Read More
Buried within COVID anthology The Year Of The Everlasting Storm is the best film of 2021
Two of the shorts, from David Lowery and Apichatpong Weerasethakul, are terrific → Read More
Anne At 13,000 Feet is a harrowing, mysterious portrait of mental illness
Think A Woman Under The Influence, though not nearly as long or exhausting → Read More
No Man Of God inserts Ted Bundy into a Silence Of The Lambs scenario
Interviews with Bundy may have influenced the Thomas Harris classic, but that doesn't make this true-crime drama feel any less redundant → Read More
Sean Penn squares off against his daughter in dysfunctional family/crime drama Flag Day
It's significantly better than The Last Face, but that's not saying much → Read More