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MANOHLA DARGIS
Manohla Dargis

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• Journal News (Westchester, NY)
• L.A. Weekly
• Los Angeles Times
• New York Times

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Total Reviews: 705

CRITICS GROUP(S)
Los Angeles Film Critics Association


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A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE
(This Critic's Cinematic Taste as Determined by Rotten Tomatoes)
 
BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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5/5 Year of the Dog
4.5/5 The Case of the Grinning Cat
4/5 Regular Lovers
3.5/5 The Painted Veil
3/5 Notes on a Scandal
2.5/5 The Pursuit of Happyness
2/5 Reno 911!: Miami
1.5/5 The Situation
1/5 Next
 
 
BEST REVIEWED
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5/5 There Will Be Blood
5/5 The 11th Hour
5/5 Year of the Dog
5/5 Our Daily Bread
5/5 Two or Three Things I Know About Her
5/5 The Wild Blue Yonder: A Science Fiction Fantasy
5/5 Old Joy
5/5 A History of Violence
5/5 Grizzly Man
5/5 2046
 more...
 
 
WORST REVIEWED
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0/5 Don't Tell
0.5/5 Calvaire
0.5/5 Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
1/5 Vantage Point
1/5 Cloverfield
1/5 Sleuth
1/5 The Invasion
1/5 Next
1/5 Material Girls
1/5 The Celestine Prophecy
 more...
 
This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 75% of the time.

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1.5/5
 
What Happens in Vegas, one of those junky time-wasters that routinely pop up in movie theaters, won’t make you laugh much or at all. -- New York Times
Posted May 8, 2008
 
What Happens in Vegas (2008)27%
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3/5
 
"In Battle for Haditha the British filmmaker Nick Broomfield revisits a wretched chapter of the war in Iraq." -- New York Times
Posted May 7, 2008
 
Battle for Haditha (2008)50%
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4.5/5
 
A startlingly pitch-perfect reproduction of the kind of gauzy sex movies from the 1960s and early 1970s that preceded the hard-core revolution. -- New York Times
Posted May 2, 2008
 
Viva (2008)63%
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4/5
 
"A likable, lightly sticky valentine to childhood." -- New York Times
Posted May 2, 2008
 
Son of Rambow (2008)73%
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3.5/5
 
Redbelt, is a satisfying, unexpectedly involving B-movie that owes as much to old Hollywood as to Greek tragedy. -- New York Times
Posted May 1, 2008
 
Redbelt (2008)69%
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1.5/5
 
A would-be erotic thriller with no heat and zero chills, Deception has the kind of glassy, glossy sheen and risible story that mean to suggest Basic Instinct but instead invoke lesser laughers like Jade and Sliver. -- New York Times
Posted Apr 25, 2008
 
Deception (2008)12%
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4/5
 
It is, predictably, a bleak, depressing movie, but if you stick around through the end credits, you may also be in for a few surprises. -- New York Times
Posted Apr 25, 2008
 
Standard Operating Procedure (2008)77%
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3/5
 
The new comedy Baby Mama never comes fully to term, as it were. -- New York Times
Posted Apr 25, 2008
 
Baby Mama (2008)61%
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1.5/5
 
"Although it’s often laugh-out-loud laughably bad, 88 Minutes is mostly just a slog." -- New York Times
Posted Apr 18, 2008
 
88 Minutes (2008)6%
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The serial killer in Anamorph shows promise, even if some of his best moves are derivative. The same is true of the film’s director. -- New York Times
Posted Apr 18, 2008
 
Anamorph (2008)24%
 No Rating  
No article or quote available -- New York Times
Posted Apr 14, 2008
 
The Duchess of Langeais (2008)67%
 No Rating  
No article or quote available -- New York Times
Posted Apr 14, 2008
 
George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead (2008)60%
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2.5/5
 
Street Kings is an absurd if accidentally entertaining potboiler, based on a story by James Ellroy. -- New York Times
Posted Apr 10, 2008
 
Street Kings (2008)33%
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2.5/5
 
Drenched in emotion and suffused with good intentions, Body of War is impossible not to like, but difficult to admire. -- New York Times
Posted Apr 9, 2008
 
Body of War (2008)76%
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1.5/5
 
The screenwriter Daniel Waters has some funny films to his name, but Sex and Death 101 is not one of them. -- New York Times
Posted Apr 4, 2008
 
Sex and Death 101 (2008)26%
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3/5
 
"The flowers that bloom in the French film Water Lilies belong to a familiar cinematic species, the newly sexualized teenage girl." -- New York Times
Posted Apr 4, 2008
 
Water Lilies (2007)86%
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4.5/5
 
The luscious red orb in Flight of the Red Balloon is as much a reminder of the precariousness of life as an emblem of innocence. -- New York Times
Posted Apr 3, 2008
 
The Flight of the Red Balloon (2008)78%
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4/5
 
"A subtly intelligent and sharply argued documentary." -- New York Times
Posted Mar 31, 2008
 
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired (2008)n/a
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3.5/5
 
"The Cool School, a breezy, lively documentary about a thin slice of the Los Angeles fine art scene in the 1950s, is easy on the eyes, and the ears too." -- New York Times
Posted Mar 28, 2008
 
The Cool School (2008)93%
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1.5/5
 
"Greed is good and comes without a hint of conscience in 21, a feature-length bore about some smarty-pants who take Vegas for a ride." -- New York Times
Posted Mar 27, 2008
 
21 (2008)31%
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4.5/5
 
Alexander Sokurov’s Alexandra feels like a communiqué from another time, another place, anywhere but here. -- New York Times
Posted Mar 26, 2008
 
Alexandra (2008)95%
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3.5/5
 
Boarding Gate plays with various genre codes and conventions very differently than most run-of-the-mill modern thrillers. -- New York Times
Posted Mar 20, 2008
 
Boarding Gate (2007)26%
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3/5
 
Intriguing, frustrating, exasperating -- the French film Heartbeat Detector succeeds best as a provocation. -- New York Times
Posted Mar 14, 2008
 
Heartbeat Detector (2007)72%
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4/5
 
Blind Mountain, the second feature from Li Yang, is a reminder that art sometimes keeps the truth alive far better than the news. -- New York Times
Posted Mar 12, 2008
 
Blind Mountain (2008)77%
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4.5/5
 
"This is personal cinema at its most uncompromising and fierce." -- New York Times
Posted Mar 7, 2008
 
Frownland (2008)n/a
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4/5
 
"The workmanlike title The Bank Job is a nice fit for this wham-bam caper flick." -- New York Times
Posted Mar 7, 2008
 
The Bank Job (2008)78%
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4/5
 
Paranoid Park is a haunting, voluptuously beautiful portrait of a teenage boy who, after being suddenly caught in midflight, falls to earth. -- New York Times
Posted Mar 6, 2008
 
Paranoid Park (2008)76%
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2.5/5
 
"More slog than romp, The Other Boleyn Girl tells the salacious story of two hot blue bloods who ran amok and partly unclothed in the court of Henry VIII." -- New York Times
Posted Feb 29, 2008
 
The Other Boleyn Girl (2008)41%
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2.5/5
 
It’s a free world, Ken Loach asserts in his latest film with well-practiced disgust and unfortunately little hope. -- New York Times
Posted Feb 29, 2008
 
It's a Free World (2007)93%
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3/5
 
The Unforeseen explores the rights of man, the death of nature, the water below, the air above and all that going, going, gone green in between. -- New York Times
Posted Feb 29, 2008
 
The Unforeseen (2007)85%
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1/5
 
"A gimmick in search of its own point." -- New York Times
Posted Feb 22, 2008
 
Vantage Point (2008)36%
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1.5/5
 
Jumper is a barely coherent genre mishmash about a guy who transports himself across the globe at will. -- New York Times
Posted Feb 14, 2008
 
Jumper (2008)16%
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2/5
 
I'm not entirely sure what [director Williams] was trying to pull off in London to Brighton or even if Mr. Williams knew what he was trying to pull off. -- New York Times
Posted Feb 8, 2008
 
London to Brighton (2008)76%
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2.5/5
 
In In Bruges, Brendan Gleeson, Colin Farrell and Ralph Fiennes have great fun rummaging around inside Martin McDonagh’s modest bag of tricks. -- New York Times
Posted Feb 7, 2008
 
In Bruges (2008)78%
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4/5
 
Like the music it celebrates, this is a film made in glory of the world. -- New York Times
Posted Jan 30, 2008
 
Silence Before Bach, The (2008)91%
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4.5/5
 
In 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, a ferocious, unsentimental, often brilliantly directed film, the camera doesn’t follow the action, it expresses consciousness itself. -- New York Times
Posted Jan 24, 2008
 
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2008)96%
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4/5
 
In Still Life, the blood and the sweat run directly into the Yangtze River, where they mingle with more than a few tears. -- New York Times
Posted Jan 18, 2008
 
Still Life (2008)93%
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3.5/5
 
Cassandra's Dream, Woody Allen's latest excursion to the dark side of human nature, is good enough that you may wonder why he doesn't just stop making comedies once and for all. -- New York Times
Posted Jan 18, 2008
 
Cassandra's Dream (2008)49%
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1/5
 
"Works as a showcase for impressively realistic-looking special effects, a realism that fails to extend to the scurrying humans whose fates are meant to invoke pity and fear but instead inspire yawns and contempt." -- New York Times
Posted Jan 18, 2008
 
Cloverfield (2008)77%
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2.5/5
 
Much like man's best friend, the rough-hewn Filipino movie The Bet Collector chases its protagonist from step to step, misery to misery, all but nipping at her heels. -- New York Times
Posted Jan 10, 2008
 
The Bet Collector (2006)n/a
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4/5
 
Woman on the Beach is a bittersweet accounting of the geography of desire. -- New York Times
Posted Jan 9, 2008
 
Woman on the Beach (2008)86%
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5/5
 
There Will Be Blood Paul Thomas Anderson's epic American nightmare, arrives belching fire and brimstone and damnation to Hell. -- New York Times
Posted Dec 26, 2007
 
There Will Be Blood (2007)91%
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3/5
 
"P.S. I Love You looks squeaky clean and utterly straight. Yet as directed by Richard LaGravenese, it has a curious morbid quality." -- New York Times
Posted Dec 21, 2007
 
P.S. I Love You (2007)20%
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3/5
 
"Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story has a good beat and you can dance to it, though mostly you’ll probably just tap your foot." -- New York Times
Posted Dec 20, 2007
 
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007)74%
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3/5
 
"Youth Without Youth is a narratively ambitious, visually sumptuous surrealist enterprise that tries to bend time and space together as neatly as the folds in an origami swan." -- New York Times
Posted Dec 14, 2007
 
Youth Without Youth (2007)28%
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1.5/5
 
Mr. Forster has been soundly defeated by The Kite Runner. Despite the film's far-flung locations, there is remarkably little of visual interest here; the setups are banal, and the scenes lack tension, which no amount of editing can provide. -- New York Times
Posted Dec 13, 2007
 
The Kite Runner (2007)66%
 No Rating  
No article or quote available -- New York Times
Posted Dec 10, 2007
 
Banished (2007)n/a
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4/5
 
"The Band's Visit, the first feature by the Israeli writer and director Eran Kolirin, flirts recklessly with obviousness, cuteness too." -- New York Times
Posted Dec 7, 2007
 
The Band's Visit (2007)98%
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2.5/5
 
"Hampered by its fealty to the book and its madly rushed pace." -- New York Times
Posted Dec 6, 2007
 
The Golden Compass (2007)42%
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4/5
 
"The tiny, tough, sneakily moving film The Violin wears its revolutionary romanticism on its sleeve, not far from its gun." -- New York Times
Posted Dec 5, 2007
 
The Violin (2007)97%

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