Mike D'Angelo

Mike D'Angelo (born April 9, 1968)[1] is an American film critic. He has written reviews for The A.V. Club, Las Vegas Weekly and Nerve, and maintains a personal website, The Man Who Viewed Too Much. He lives near Los Angeles.[2]

One of the first notable online film critics,[3][4] D'Angelo created his site and began self-publishing short reviews in August 1995. In January 1997, Entertainment Weekly included The Man Who Viewed Too Much in an article about Internet film criticism, which was then in its infancy.[5] The magazine subsequently hired him to write capsule film reviews for its video section. After contributing to Entertainment Weekly for three years, he became the chief film critic for Time Out New York (2000–2004) before moving to Esquire, where he served as the chief film critic. His writing has also appeared in Variety, The Village Voice, the Salt Lake City Weekly and the Nashville Scene.

D'Angelo participated in the 2012 Sight & Sound critics' poll, where he listed his ten favorite films as follows: 2001: A Space Odyssey, Blood Simple, Double Indemnity, Exotica, Manhattan, Only Angels Have Wings, Outer Space, Partie de campagne, A Star Is Born, and Woman of the Dunes.[6]

References

  1. ^ D'Angelo, Mike [@gemko] (April 5, 2019). "Incidentally, here's a 100% genuine list of films that *I* watched for the first time when I was 24 years old. (None of which I blathered about.) List kicks off the day after my 24th birthday, which was 9 April 1992; what you see here doesn't even take me through July" (Tweet). Retrieved April 27, 2019 – via Twitter.
  2. ^ "This Guy". The Man Who Viewed Too Much: Film Stuff by Mike D'Angelo. Panix. Retrieved March 4, 2017.
  3. ^ Staff (Fall 2008). "Film Criticism in the Age of the Internet: A Critical Symposium". Cineaste. 33 (4).
  4. ^ Melis, Behil (2005). Marijke de Valck and Malte Hagener (ed.). Ravenous Cinephiles: Cinephilia, Internet, and Online Film Communities. Amsterdam University Press. p. 113. ISBN 9053567682.
  5. ^ Burr, Ty (January 17, 1997). "ReelViews; The Man Who Viewed Too Much; Teen Movie Critic; Doug Y's Movie Reviews; Uncle Bill's Shack O' Movies; The Tripper's Multimedia Movie Reviews; Reviews in Rhyme". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved September 5, 2014.
  6. ^ "Mike d'Angelo | BFI". Archived from the original on August 18, 2016.