Michael Angarano’s Typical Vibe
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Michael Angarano has 17 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2010s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by Almost Famous.
Recurring themes

Friends with Kids
2012
Comedy · Drama

18 Years Old and Rising
2011
Comedy · Drama

The Spectacular Now
2013
Comedy · Drama

Oh Lucy!
2018
Comedy · Drama

Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
2012
Comedy · Drama

Take Me Home
2011
Drama · Comedy

Juliet, Naked
2018
Comedy · Drama

Delicacy
2011
Drama · Comedy

Almost Famous
2000 · Movie · Actor
Top 10%Paramount+ · Included

The Stanford Prison Experiment
2015 · Movie · Actor
Top 18%AMC+ · Included

The Knick
2014 · Series · Actor
Top 26%Max · Included

The Forbidden Kingdom
2008 · Movie · Actor
Top 28%Prime Video · Included

Speak
2004 · Movie · Actor
Top 34%Paramount+ · Included

Red State
2011 · Movie · Actor
Top 43%Prime Video · Included

In 1973, a precocious 15-year-old aspiring rock journalist lands a dream assignment from Rolling Stone to tour with a rising rock band, embarking on a coming-of-age journey as he discovers the exhilarating and heartbreaking realities behind rock stardom.
Dir. Cameron Crowe · With Billy Crudup, Frances McDormand, Kate Hudson

In 1971, Stanford's Professor Philip Zimbardo conducts a controversial psychology experiment in which college students pretend to be either prisoners or guards, but the proceedings soon get out of hand. Based on a true story.
Dir. Kyle Patrick Alvarez · With Billy Crudup, Michael Angarano, Ezra Miller

Set in downtown New York in 1900, 'The Knick' is centered on the Knickerbocker Hospital and its staff, notably Dr. John Thackery, the hospital's brilliant chief surgeon who pushes medicine's boundaries, pioneering new procedures despite a severe drug addiction.
Dir. Jack Amiel, Michael Begler · With Clive Owen, Charles Aitken, André Holland

An American teenager who is obsessed with Hong Kong cinema and kung-fu classics makes an extraordinary discovery in a Chinatown pawnshop: the legendary stick weapon of the Chinese sage and warrior, the Monkey King. With the lost relic in hand, the teenager unexpectedly finds himself travelling back to ancient China to join a crew of warriors from martial arts lore on a dangerous quest to free the imprisoned Monkey King.
Dir. Rob Minkoff · With Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Michael Angarano

Freshman high-school student Melinda has refused to speak ever since she called the cops on a popular summer party. With her old friends snubbing her for being a rat, and her parents too busy to notice her troubles, she folds into herself, trying to hide her secret: that star senior Andy raped her at the party. But Melinda does manage to find solace in her art class headed by Mr. Freeman.
Dir. Jessica Sharzer · With Kristen Stewart, Elizabeth Perkins, Steve Zahn

Set in Middle America, a group of teens receive an online invitation for sex, though they soon encounter Christian fundamentalists with a much more sinister agenda.
Dir. Kevin Smith · With Michael Parks, John Goodman, Melissa Leo

Set in a world where superheroes are commonly known and accepted, young Will Stronghold, the son of the Commander and Jetstream, tries to find a balance between being a normal teenager and an extraordinary being.
Dir. Mike Mitchell · With Kurt Russell, Michael Angarano, Kelly Preston

When a couple discovers that a brass teapot makes them money whenever they hurt themselves, they must come to terms with how far they are willing to go.
Dir. Ramaa Mosley · With Juno Temple, Michael Angarano, Alexis Bledel

Waitress Annie has separated from her suicidal alcoholic husband, Glenn. Glenn has become an evangelical Christian, but his erratic attempts at getting back into Annie's life have alarmed her. High school student Arthur works at Annie's restaurant, growing closer to a new kid in town, Lila, after class. When Glenn and Annie's daughter goes missing, the whole town searches for her, as he increasingly spirals out of control.
Dir. David Gordon Green · With Kate Beckinsale, Sam Rockwell, Michael Angarano

George, a lonely and fatalistic teen who's made it all the way to his senior year without ever having done a real day of work, is befriended by Sally, a popular but complicated girl who recognizes in him a kindred spirit.
Dir. Gavin Wiesen · With Freddie Highmore, Emma Roberts, Michael Angarano

In a blue-collar American town, a group of teens bands together to form the Dandies, a gang of gunslingers led by Dick Dandelion. Following a code of strict pacifism at odds with the fact that they all carry guns, the group eventually lets in Sebastian, the grandson of Dick's childhood nanny, Clarabelle, who fears the other gangs in the area. Dick and company try to protect Clarabelle, but events transpire that push the gang past posturing.
Dir. Thomas Vinterberg · With Jamie Bell, Bill Pullman, Michael Angarano

A teenager attends a fantasy writers' convention where he discovers his idea has been stolen by an established novelist.
Dir. Jared Hess · With Michael Angarano, Sam Rockwell, Jemaine Clement

When a Las Vegas bodyguard with lethal skills and a gambling problem gets in trouble with the mob, he has one last play… and it's all or nothing.
Dir. Simon West · With Jason Statham, Michael Angarano, Dominik Garcia
A black ops soldier seeks payback after she is betrayed and left for dead.
Dir. Steven Soderbergh · With Gina Carano, Michael Fassbender, Channing Tatum

Small-town Pennsylvania schoolteacher Linda Sinclair balances her staid home life with an incredible passion for her subject. Then a former star pupil reenters her life after failing as a playwright in New York City. Seeing in his script the inspiration that she has always longed to instill in her students, this dyed-in-the-wool romantic enlists the help of long-suffering drama teacher Carl to mount the work as the high school’s next and riskiest production.
Dir. Craig Zisk · With Julianne Moore, Michael Angarano, Greg Kinnear
Long-term couple Owen and Hallie are breaking up—or maybe not?—and just as their relationship reaches a turning point, Matt and Willa embark on a romance of their own.
Dir. Sam Boyd · With Emma Roberts, Michael Angarano, Dree Hemingway

After failing to get into the police academy, Chris Potamitis settles for a security guard job with an armoured truck company. After he makes the mistake of mentioning the company's lax security to his best friend, He's unwittingly drawn into an elaborate scheme to rob the abundant amounts of cash being stored on their premises—resulting in the largest cash heist in U.S.history.
Dir. Dito Montiel · With Liam Hemsworth, Dwayne Johnson, Emma Roberts