Manohla Dargis

Manohla Dargis

Agrees with the Tomatometer 76% of the time.

Publications:
Journal News (Westchester, NY) , L.A. Weekly , Los Angeles Times , New York Times , San Francisco Chronicle
Critics' Group:
Los Angeles Film Critics Association
Total Reviews:
1245

Worst Reviewed Films

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
0/5 0% Don't Tell (2005) " An inept drama concerning three siblings after the death of their farmer father." — New York Times
Posted Oct 13, 2005
.5/5 6% All About Steve (2009) " It seems incredible, but the grimly unfunny comedy All About Steve might just be the worst movie on Sandra Bullock's résumé." — New York Times
Posted Sep 4, 2009
0.5/5 17% Downloading Nancy (2008) " Downloading Nancy is a nasty exploitation flick tarted up with art-house actors and psychobabble." — New York Times
Posted Jun 5, 2009
.5/5 30% Nights in Rodanthe (2008) " It's no wonder the faithful continue to forsake the movies, given junky embarrassments like Nights in Rodanthe." — New York Times
Posted Sep 26, 2008
.5/5 53% Tropa de Elite (The Elite Squad) (2007) " Elite Squad is a relentlessly ugly, unpleasant, often incoherent assault on the senses from Brazil." — New York Times
Posted Sep 19, 2008
0.5/5 39% Calvaire (The Ordeal) (2006) " Directed by the newcomer Fabrice du Welz, the Belgian horror film Calvaire is pompous, but not without talent or shivers." — New York Times
Posted Aug 10, 2006
0.5/5 70% Dodgeball - A True Underdog Story (2004) " It's not the end of American cinema, but it may signal either the end of Ben Stiller's ambitions or the launch of a vendetta against his fans." — Los Angeles Times
Posted Jun 17, 2004
1/5 9% The Host (2013) " Dopey, derivative and dull, "The Host" is a brazen combination of unoriginal science-fiction themes, young-adult pandering and bottom-line calculation." — New York Times
Posted Mar 28, 2013
1/5 4% Playing for Keeps (2012) " None of it is especially credible or engaging." — New York Times
Posted Dec 6, 2012
1/5 12% Alex Cross (2012) " A grim, dispiritingly stupid waste of time, energy, money and talent ..." — New York Times
Posted Oct 18, 2012
1/5 5% Atlas Shrugged: Part II (2012) " The producers are going to have to hire a better director if they want moviegoers to be curious enough about this Galt guy to buy a ticket for the presumptive third and final chapter." — New York Times
Posted Oct 15, 2012
1/5 54% The Inbetweeners (2012) " The movie is apparently the most popular British comedy in history. I guarantee that its success has nothing to do with the quality of the actual movie ..." — New York Times
Posted Sep 6, 2012
1/5 4% A Little Bit Of Heaven (2012) " A cringe-inducing romantic comedy turned cancer tragedy turned inspirational hosanna about living in the moment, embracing your bliss and other clichés." — New York Times
Posted May 3, 2012
1/5 6% The Devil Inside (2012) " Clearly, when a cheapie pickup like "Paranormal Activity," which Paramount released a few years ago, turns into franchise gold, there's just no stopping the banality." — New York Times
Posted Jan 6, 2012
1/5 25% Killer Elite (2011) " [A] pileup of sub-Bourne action set pieces, sad laughs and clichés." — New York Times
Posted Sep 22, 2011
1/5 45% 30 Minutes or Less (2011) " Sometimes a rude and crude comedy is simply scraping the bottom of the barrel, despite the efforts of a talent like Mr. Eisenberg and of second bananas like Mr. Ansari and Mr. Swardson." — New York Times
Posted Aug 11, 2011
1/5 21% Snow Flower And The Secret Fan (2011) " For those who may have wondered if foot binding, wife beating and a crooning Hugh Jackman could fit into one movie, here's the short answer: no." — New York Times
Posted Jul 14, 2011
1/5 26% Green Lantern (2011) " "Green Lantern" is bad." — New York Times
Posted Jun 16, 2011
1/5 30% Sanctum (2011) " The director Alister Grierson, not grasping that bad dialogue is sometimes best delivered quietly, encourages his actors to shout and thrash about, and so they do, like fish out of water and performers out of their depth." — New York Times
Posted Feb 3, 2011
1/5 18% Valentine's Day (2010) " The dire romantic comedy Valentine's Day is neither romantic nor remotely comedic." — New York Times
Posted Feb 11, 2010
1/5 34% G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009) " This pricey, juiceless pulp could never have been killed by critics, simply because it was already dead." — New York Times
Posted Aug 11, 2009
1/5 13% The Ugly Truth (2009) " A cynical, clumsy, aptly titled attempt to cross the female-oriented romantic comedy with the male-oriented gross-out comedy." — New York Times
Posted Jul 24, 2009
1/5 35% Vantage Point (2008) " A gimmick in search of its own point." — New York Times
Posted Feb 22, 2008
1/5 77% Cloverfield (2008) " 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
1/5 36% Sleuth (2007) " In the remake of Sleuth, what was once insignificant is now insufferable." — New York Times
Posted Oct 12, 2007
1/5 20% The Invasion (2007) " The latest and lamest version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers might have been an accidental camp classic if its politics weren't so abhorrent and the movie didn't try to hide its ineptitude behind a veil of pomposity." — New York Times
Posted Aug 17, 2007
1/5 28% Next (2007) " It's too bad that Mr. Cage couldn't tap into those powers to save himself from another bad choice in roles." — New York Times
Posted Apr 27, 2007
1/5 4% Material Girls (2006) " An incompetent spin on the poor-little-rich-girl story, the film involves a lot of wardrobe changes and product placements, and a smidgen of intrigue and some chaste romance." — New York Times
Posted Aug 21, 2006
1/5 4% The Celestine Prophecy (2006) " A delectable fusion of New Age babble and luridly bad filmmaking based on the best-selling 1993 book by James Redfield." — New York Times
Posted Aug 10, 2006
1/5 47% Azumi (2003) " Adapted from the manga of the same title, this 2003 action flick tracks the blood-spurting adventures of its title character, a young female assassin who wields a lethally mean sword." — New York Times
Posted Jul 20, 2006
1/5 41% The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things (2004) " Viewer discretion is advised, if only because it's well-nigh unwatchable." — New York Times
Posted Mar 9, 2006
1/5 73% Who Gets to Call It Art? (2006) " Clocking in at 80 minutes, this glib, largely uninformative and poorly organized précis of the post-World War II art scene succeeds neither as history nor as art history." — New York Times
Posted Feb 1, 2006
1/5 64% Heights (2005) " ... cumbersome drama." — New York Times
Posted Jun 16, 2005
1/5 41% Hål i mitt hjärta, Ett (A Hole In My Heart) (2004) " It's a mystery what the Swedish filmmaker Lukas Moodysson thought he was up to in A Hole in My Heart, a movie teeming with ugly images and grotesque behavior." — New York Times
Posted Apr 7, 2005
1/5 15% Miss Congeniality 2 - Armed and Fabulous (2005) " It isn't just that Miss Congeniality 2 is nearly absent a single genuine laugh; it's that instead of a screenplay and a story we now have stereotypes and sketch comedy." — New York Times
Posted Mar 24, 2005
1/5 20% The Ring Two (2005) " Despite Mr. Nakata's track record and the radiant presence of its star, Naomi Watts, The Ring Two is a dud." — New York Times
Posted Mar 17, 2005
1/5 10% Elektra (2005) " The latest Hollywood movie to give comic books a bad name, Elektra stars Jennifer Garner as a superheroine who dons fetish-wear the color of blood before laying waste to every man in sight." — New York Times
Posted Jan 13, 2005
1/5 9% White Noise (2005) " The nominal thriller White Noise is worthy neither of Michael Keaton's talents nor even a desperate horror fan's attention." — New York Times
Posted Jan 6, 2005
1/5 23% Fat Albert (2004) " The screen version of the animated television series Fat Albert opens with a glint of promise. From there, the movie, alas, just lies down and dies." — New York Times
Posted Dec 23, 2004
1/5 26% Anatomy of Hell (2004) " Once again, [Breillat] gives us a man and a woman engaged in a bruising slugfest hinged to sexual difference." — New York Times
Posted Oct 14, 2004
1/5 40% Ladder 49 (2004) " This is essentially a male weepie about strong, simple men and the strong, simple women behind them, and as such it's platitudinous rubbish." — New York Times
Posted Sep 30, 2004
1/5 31% The Forgotten (2004) " A pseudospiritual, mumbo-jumbo, science-fiction inflected mess." — New York Times
Posted Sep 23, 2004
1/5 18% Suspect Zero (2004) " Finally, a serial-killer movie so preposterous it may actually put a permanent kibosh on this tediously overworked crime subgenre." — New York Times
Posted Aug 26, 2004
1/5 50% Union Square (2004) " The film attempts to affect an air of dispassionate objectivity, but generally comes across as an exercise in exploitation." — Los Angeles Times
Posted Jun 24, 2004
1/5 15% Garfield - The Movie (2004) " Soulless excuse for an entertainment." — Los Angeles Times
Posted Jun 11, 2004
1/5 16% The Big Bounce (2004) " There may once have been a real movie rattling inside the empty studio package known as The Big Bounce, but no longer." — Los Angeles Times
Posted Jan 30, 2004
1/5 33% The Butterfly Effect (2004) " Maladroit exploitation flick." — Los Angeles Times
Posted Jan 22, 2004
1/5 10% Dr. Seuss - The Cat in the Hat (2003) " If directing bad movies were a sin to confess, Bo Welch would say oops for making this mess." — Los Angeles Times
Posted Nov 20, 2003
1/5 9% The Order (The Sin Eater) (2003) " Cast adrift with vague, improbable characters and a plot that's at once under- and overcooked, the actors struggle to find a steady tone, lurching from somber to silly as the director tries to figure out what he's doing." — Los Angeles Times
Posted Sep 8, 2003
1/5 7% Gigli (2003) " Nearly as unwatchable as it is unpronounceable." — Los Angeles Times
Posted Jul 31, 2003
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