Michael Angelella

I’ve spent my professional life telling stories as a screenwriter, documentary filmmaker, author, journalist, and professor of screenwriting. But long before any of that, I was a movie lover.

​Many of the reviews collected here began as short commentaries written for Silver Screen Radio, a public radio program featuring film professors sharing their reviews of current movies.

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I had one condition when I agreed to participate: I would not review new releases. Instead, I chose to write about films that had stayed with me, movies discovered and rediscovered over a lifetime of watching cinema from every era and genre.

Those brief radio pieces became the foundation for this archive. These reviews are personal reflections, written for fellow movie lovers.