Marc Mohan

Marc Mohan

Agrees with the Tomatometer 81% of the time.

Publications:
Oregonian
Total Reviews:
543

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
B+ 44% Midnight's Children (2013) " Rushdie adeptly trims his sprawling tale down to a still-substantial 2 1/2-hour movie, which only occasionally seems to hurry." — Oregonian
Posted May 8, 2013
B+ 91% Gimme The Loot (2013) " Hickson walks the line between bravado and vulnerability, while Washington has a charisma, spark and beauty that should ensure this won't be the last we see of her." — Oregonian
Posted May 2, 2013
B- 81% Renoir (2013) " Philosophy and analysis can wait for another day; it's pleasant enough to quietly revel in the pristine sunlight and unhurried pace of an era gone by." — Oregonian
Posted May 2, 2013
B 78% Iron Man 3 (2013) " It's solidly entertaining, with Downey's roguish charm as appealing as ever." — Oregonian
Posted May 2, 2013
C 68% Disconnect (2013) " "Disconnect" would have been wiser to focus more on the everyday ways technology alienates us from each other, rather than descend to this sort of fear-mongering melodrama." — Oregonian
Posted Apr 26, 2013
B- 76% It's a Disaster (2013) " If you can look past the awkwardness of humor based on being unexpectedly trapped in a house during a major emergency, it's an acutely observed, frequently funny piece of work." — Oregonian
Posted Apr 25, 2013
D 46% Pain & Gain (2013) " Bay seems to have been gunning for something along the lines of "Blood Simple" or "A Simple Plan," but "Pain & Gain" is just plain simple." — Oregonian
Posted Apr 25, 2013
B 64% Antiviral (2013) " The metaphors are maybe too clear (there's a food product grown from celebrity muscle cells), but the filmmaking is solid, using a nearly monochrome palette for its sleek dystopia." — Oregonian
Posted Apr 25, 2013
B- 42% To The Wonder (2013) " Any half-serious filmgoers need to see "To the Wonder" for themselves; it remains the product of a fascinating mind." — Oregonian
Posted Apr 25, 2013
B+ 96% Blancanieves (2013) " If not for some faintly disturbing imagery and a pleasingly feminist heroine, you could mistake this for a movie actually made in the 1920s (and even those two factors weren't utterly unknown then)." — Oregonian
Posted Apr 18, 2013
B 75% No Place On Earth (2013) " The Holocaust-survival documentary is almost a cliché at this point, but Janet Tobias' documentary provides yet another proof that there's a virtually infinite supply of such stories." — Oregonian
Posted Apr 18, 2013
B+ 94% Room 237 (2013) " The credibility of these theories ranges from faintly plausible to frankly ridiculous, but Ascher isn't interested in judging them; his movie is more about the joys of deconstruction and the special kind of obsession that movies can inspire." — Oregonian
Posted Apr 18, 2013
A- 87% Upstream Color (2013) " Carruth's mesmerizing, confounding film is full of overwhelming sensory splendor and ripe with multiple meanings. " — Oregonian
Posted Apr 18, 2013
C 54% The Company You Keep (2013) " Whatever the movie has to say about the use of violence to oppose an unjust system, or the way priorities change as we age, has been said before." — Oregonian
Posted Apr 18, 2013
B 68% Trance (2013) " This is a stylish enough, mind-bending thriller, a cocktail of "Inception," "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind," and "The Thomas Crown Affair" (the remake)." — Oregonian
Posted Apr 12, 2013
C 65% Starbuck (2013) " For a story about a man on the cusp of belated adulthood, "Starbuck" has some growing up of its own to do." — Oregonian
Posted Apr 12, 2013
D- 13% Molly's Theory Of Relativity (2013) " It's really about Lipsky's love of his own words, as every character serves as nothing more than a mouthpiece for identically insipid dialogue." — Oregonian
Posted Apr 12, 2013
B+ 77% 42 (2013) " Digital recreations of Ebbets Field, Crosley Field, and Forbes Field ring true, but pleasing the hardball historians doesn't interfere with entertaining folks who've never heard of those departed shrines." — Oregonian
Posted Apr 12, 2013
B 70% Somebody Up There Likes Me (2013) " Deadpan absurdity and an insistently whimsical score only add to the cookie-cutter feel, but the performances are appealing enough." — Oregonian
Posted Apr 11, 2013
B 70% Wrong (2013) " For all its dominant paradigm subverting, "Wrong" never feels dangerous or truly challenging, content generally to amuse rather than amaze." — Oregonian
Posted Apr 4, 2013
B- 81% From Up On Poppy Hill (2013) " The animation is pretty and clean, reminiscent of other Studio Ghibli films like "Whisper of the Heart," but never achieves wondrous artistry." — Oregonian
Posted Apr 4, 2013
B+ 81% The Place Beyond The Pines (2013) " Cianfrance traces a tale familiar in its outlines but fascinating in its particulars." — Oregonian
Posted Apr 4, 2013
C+ 40% Mental (2013) " Not content to make his point through sharp-tongued comedy, Hogan ends up beating a dead horse -- or shark, as the case may be." — Oregonian
Posted Mar 28, 2013
A 100% M (1931) " Lang's film is a must-see for even a moderately ambitious film buff." — Oregonian
Posted Mar 28, 2013
B+ 96% War Witch (2013) " Nguyen reportedly worked on "War Witch" for a decade, and it shows in both the immediacy and authenticity of his tale, and the meticulous craft with which it's told." — Oregonian
Posted Mar 28, 2013
B+ 65% The We and the I (2013) " By the end of the line, we've been granted a privileged peek at today's youth that's intimidating and nostalgia-inducing in equal measure." — Oregonian
Posted Mar 21, 2013
B- 45% On the Road (2012) " Even if Salles' film can't possibly capture the impact of its source, it's intriguing enough to rate a place in the ever-expanding mythology of "the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live."" — Oregonian
Posted Mar 21, 2013
D 48% Olympus Has Fallen (2013) " The level of dehumanized violence is disturbing -- more people get shot point-blank in the head in this movie than during a weeklong Deer Hunter cosplay convention." — Oregonian
Posted Mar 21, 2013
B 66% Spring Breakers (2013) " Korine seems, almost despite himself, to have something more than hip nihilism as his goal." — Oregonian
Posted Mar 21, 2013
C+ 43% Admission (2013) " Despite a talented cast and a few amusing distractions, the film suffers from an overall flatness that's surprising and disappointing." — Oregonian
Posted Mar 20, 2013
B- 82% Like Someone in Love (2013) " "Like Someone in Love" meanders with intention toward a bittersweet resolution, but then pulls the rug out from under you in a cruelly ambiguous shot." — Oregonian
Posted Mar 14, 2013
B 67% Stoker (2013) " This is the first of his films Park didn't write himself, and while the setup is compelling, a prosaic follow-through serves to straighten out the narrative rather than enhance it with curves." — Oregonian
Posted Mar 14, 2013
C- 31% Emperor (2013) " There's the potential here for a fascinating Japanese counterpart to "Judgment at Nuremberg," but director Peter Webber is satisfied with ladling garden-variety melodrama over a cursory treatment of the historical drama." — Oregonian
Posted Mar 7, 2013
B 63% The Monk (2013) " Not to be mistaken for a serious treatment of religious fervor or clerical corruption, "The Monk" is instead a knowingly over-the-top bit of gothic nuttiness." — Oregonian
Posted Mar 7, 2013
B 60% Oz the Great and Powerful (2013) " It's a movie that, at moments, curiously combines Franco's mainstream, crowd-pleasing instincts with his postmodern, experimental bent." — Oregonian
Posted Mar 7, 2013
A- 95% West of Memphis (2012) " "West of Memphis" does nothing to displace its predecessor films as masterpieces of investigative filmmaking, but complements them as a riveting capstone to an epic and tragic tale." — Oregonian
Posted Mar 7, 2013
52% Jack the Giant Slayer (2013) " An overlong, mediocre fantasy that tries too hard to please every demographic." — Oregonian
Posted Feb 28, 2013
C 51% Post Tenebras Lux (2013) " There's visual poetry here, in small doses, but it doesn't take long for one's patience to run out." — Oregonian
Posted Feb 21, 2013
C+ 85% Sightseers (2013) " It's neither grounded enough to be genuinely horrifying nor over the top enough to be nastily fun." — Oregonian
Posted Feb 21, 2013
B 76% Kon Tiki (2013) " For most of its running time, it's a riveting rendition of a stranger-than-fiction tale." — Oregonian
Posted Feb 14, 2013
A 92% The Gatekeepers (2013) " A blunt, clear-eyed, first-hand take on decades of Middle Eastern history, from practically the founding of the Jewish state up through the recent fits and starts of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process." — Oregonian
Posted Feb 14, 2013
B —— Hannah Arendt (2013) " A watchable, even suspenseful portrait of a woman who spends most of the film smoking cigarettes, sitting at typewriters or sparring at dinner parties." — Oregonian
Posted Feb 14, 2013
B+ 87% Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (2013) " Primarily following one veteran sable trapper through his primitive but fascinating annual routine, the movie also features clouds of mosquitoes thick enough to inspire phantom itching in viewers." — Oregonian
Posted Feb 14, 2013
B+ 100% Masquerade (2012) " As entertainment, it's a decidedly unstuffy costume drama that's compelling to the end." — Oregonian
Posted Feb 14, 2013
C+ 16% A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III (2013) " Charles Swan III just needs to grow up. And unpleasant as it may be, we deserve more than a glimpse into his mind." — Oregonian
Posted Feb 14, 2013
C- 45% Beautiful Creatures (2013) " If this film makes enough money, sequels will surely follow. You've been warned." — Oregonian
Posted Feb 14, 2013
A- 93% Amour (2012) " An insightful, memorable film about what it means to love." — Oregonian
Posted Feb 8, 2013
B+ 60% John Dies at the End (2013) " Straightening out what's ultimately, and almost literally, a shaggy dog story isn't the point. Hanging on and soaking up a glorious bit of cinematic weirdness, courtesy of Coscarelli's fertile imagination, is." — Oregonian
Posted Feb 7, 2013
A- 85% Side Effects (2013) " Soderbergh directs with subtlety, placing clues delicately but firmly along the way; he never cheats by revealing something the audience didn't have a chance to suspect on its own." — Oregonian
Posted Feb 7, 2013
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