Mike D'Angelo's posts

Given how ferociously J.D. Salinger guarded his privacy, he likely would have objected to being the subject of any…

Espionage thrillers traffic in uncertainty, but there’s a difference, for a spy, between wondering who you can trust…

Imagine a Civil War movie that begins as follows: Some ordinary American in 1861 is just wandering the road, perhaps…

What sort of wound is at the heart of The Wound, South African filmmaker John Trengove’s debut feature? Is it…

For many, Groundhog Day qualifies as a near-perfect comedy. Apparently, though, there are some highly motivated…

Hindsight is 20/20. Does it get sharper when the distance between then and now is 20 years? The A.V. Club wasn’t…

Numerous potentially interesting ideas orbit one another in Planetarium, but none boasts sufficient gravity to merit…

So many movies, so little time. Every week brings a new crop of them, opening in multiplexes and arthouse theaters…

The queer French road movie 4 Days In France features three main characters. There’s Pierre (Pascal Cervo), a…

For their screen adaptation of Ghost World, Daniel Clowes and Terry Zwigoff invented a fake arthouse movie with a…

Many actors try their hand at directing, but few can match the degree of success—on both sides of the camera—that…

Ignore the jumble of accent marks and consonants that make up the title. Kékszakállú is the Hungarian word for…

Subtext isn’t exactly Barbet Schroeder’s primary concern in Amnesia, his first dramatic feature since 2008’s poorly…

Scientists overwhelmingly agree that humanity’s enormous carbon footprint is potentially disastrous, but reading…

Over his nearly 40 years as a documentary filmmaker, Errol Morris has conducted in-depth, direct-to-camera…

Every summer, The A.V. Club offers an unranked list of the best movies to be released theatrically (and, going…

For those who believe that death represents a journey from one plane of existence to another, it will seem apropos…

Thoughts on, and a place to discuss, the plot points we can’t reveal in our review.

If Blake Lively can go mano a mano with a shark, why can’t Mandy Moore? Not a question that’s captivated the public…

Sam Elliott’s sonorous, gravelly voice demands attention, almost regardless of what he’s saying. The Hero demonstrate…