AltWeeklies Wire
You'll Probably Feel Like You've Seen Brothers Before, Even if You Haven'tnew
Ask me about Brothers 2009 four years from now and you'll probably have to press this very review into my hands as proof that it passed before my eyes.
Las Vegas Weekly |
Mike D'Angelo |
12-04-2009 |
Reviews
Tags: Jim Sheridan, Brothers
'Taking Woodstock' is Ang Lee's Lamest Movie Evernew
If this film winds up being all that remains after a nuclear holocaust, it’ll be a valuable document. Otherwise, zzz.
Las Vegas Weekly |
Mike D'Angelo |
08-27-2009 |
Reviews
Tags: Taking Woodstock, Ang Lee
Spike Lee Harangues the Audience in the Heavy-Handed 'Miracle at St. Anna'new
Even though I was steeled for a tetchy lecture on America's sad legacy of racism, this movie's sledgehammer didacticism fairly pounded me out of my seat.
Las Vegas Weekly |
Mike D'Angelo |
09-25-2008 |
Reviews
'The Lucky Ones' is Yet Another Crappy Iraq War Movienew
Just what is it about the current war, you have to wonder, that inspires such painfully mediocre movies?
Las Vegas Weekly |
Mike D'Angelo |
09-25-2008 |
Reviews
Stoner Comedy 'Pineapple Express' is Kind of a Bummernew
Seth Rogen and James Franco aim for Belushi and Aykroyd, but achieve only Emilio Estevez and Richard Dreyfuss.
Las Vegas Weekly |
Mike D'Angelo |
08-07-2008 |
Reviews
Pixar Hits New Creative Heights with 'WALL-E'new
This pointed satire of our short-sighted indolence -- itself far more thought-provoking, by the way, than were such recent eco-docs as An Inconvenient Truth and The 11th Hour -- ultimately satisfies more than does the cutesy romance between WALL-E and EVE, which has a few lovely moments but generally tends to pander.
Las Vegas Weekly |
Mike D'Angelo |
06-27-2008 |
Reviews
'The Incredible Hulk' Reboots -- but Can't Improve -- the Marvel Superheronew
If you enjoy watching huge dudes wail on each other, you surely won't be disappointed; those hoping for something more, however, will sense the movie shrinking even as the CGI steroids kick in.
Las Vegas Weekly |
Mike D'Angelo |
06-16-2008 |
Reviews
Morgan Spurlock's Search for bin Laden is an Exercise in Crass Futilitynew
There may be worse movies out there right now, but none so utterly and dispiritingly pointless.
Las Vegas Weekly |
Mike D'Angelo |
04-18-2008 |
Reviews
'Be Kind Rewind' Has a Dreamy Nostalgianew
Gondry's latest is about half as charming as it hopes to be.
Las Vegas Weekly |
Mike D'Angelo |
02-21-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Michel Gondry, Be Kind Rewind
You'll Want to Beam Yourself Away from 'Jumper'new
If you enjoyed the X-Men trilogy, but secretly wished that it had spent more time observing Wolverine sitting at home alone spearing watermelon slices on his retractable claws, this is the inaction movie you've been breathlessly awaiting all your life.
Las Vegas Weekly |
Mike D'Angelo |
02-14-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Doug Liman, Jumper
