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Manohla Dargis

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North (1994) 12% EDIT “Perhaps, along the way, Rob Reiner's inner child got trampled, smothered under all that borscht-belt waggery.” – L.A. Weekly Jan 24, 2026 Full Review Mercy (2026) 24% EDIT “ In the end, all that remains is a guy who, much like the hapless audience member, is unhappily stuck in a chair watching a lot of onscreen nonsense.” – New York Times Jan 22, 2026 Full Review A Private Life (2025) 81% EDIT “The intrigue is far-fetched and surprising — this is one movie you can’t write in your head — and delivered with increasing winks and charm. ” – New York Times Jan 15, 2026 Full Review BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions (2025) 100% EDIT “In “BLKNWS,” Joseph doesn’t merely tell one neatly packaged story, he opens up a world of stories, some still waiting to be told.” – New York Times Jan 5, 2026 Full Review No Other Choice (2025) 97% EDIT “No Other Choice is a brutal story for brutal times, one steeped in corrosive humor and delivered with Park’s customary flair.” – New York Times Dec 29, 2025 Full Review Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) 66% EDIT “ Cameron’s signature mix of pulp and poetry can be transporting, but here it just gave me whiplash.” – New York Times Dec 19, 2025 Full Review Cover-Up (2025) 98% EDIT “Hersh is a tough, interesting cat, and this movie, by giving him his due and by addressing his failings, doesn’t simply tell the story of an individual but also of journalism.” – New York Times Dec 18, 2025 Full Review Dust Bunny (2025) 85% EDIT “Confidently directed by Fuller, a TV veteran making his feature filmmaking debut, “Dust Bunny” is a blast of delightful, visually sumptuous nonsense. ” – New York Times Dec 11, 2025 Full Review La Grazia (2025) 81% EDIT “It’s enjoyable to be back in Sorrentino’s richly detailed and stylized universe, with all its enchantments and individualized, warm-blooded characters. ” – New York Times Dec 4, 2025 Full Review Little Trouble Girls (2025) 98% EDIT “Djukic has a fine eye and is a talent to look out for, even if here, like Ana-Maria, she chose the wrong girl.” – New York Times Dec 4, 2025 Full Review The Secret Agent (2025) 98% EDIT “Kleber Mendonça Filho embraces a freewheeling sensibility, and finds laughter amid the terror. ” – New York Times Nov 26, 2025 Full Review Wicked: For Good (2025) 66% EDIT “Even so, from its director to its cast, the movie is a testament to diversity (species included) as a common good as well as to love, friendship and solidarity. It’s on the side of kindness, which is itself, well, a balm.” – New York Times Nov 20, 2025 Full Review The Running Man (2025) 62% EDIT “There’s nothing wrong (or incorrect!) about either Wright’s desire to please or the righteousness, and at times you can sense a bit of anger wafting off the screen, even if Wright and Powell mostly seem to be having a very good time.” – New York Times Nov 14, 2025 Full Review Nouvelle Vague (2025) 91% EDIT “With new attitudes, techniques, technologies, casts, crews and with one another’s support, they were borrowing from the past, engaging with the present and creating the future.” – Los Angeles Times Nov 13, 2025 Full Review Sentimental Value (2025) 97% EDIT “Trier comes at “Sentimental Value” from different, at times competing points of view and angles, briskly and seamlessly shifting among spaces and eras.” – New York Times Nov 7, 2025 Full Review Predator: Badlands (2025) 86% EDIT “In classic genre fashion, the filmmakers here are refreshing the franchise with both new ideas and elements from older installments and other touchstones.” – New York Times Nov 6, 2025 Full Review Dracula (2025) 66% EDIT “Jude is an interesting, admirably unorthodox filmmaker who likes to push his viewers. Here, he simply punishes us.” – New York Times Oct 30, 2025 Full Review Auction (2024) 90% EDIT “As “Auction” continues, issues of identity linger, and the movie quietly deepens. ” – New York Times Oct 29, 2025 Full Review Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (2025) 61% EDIT “The great surprise of “Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere” — a solid, very likable, very affecting drama about an anguished period in the life of the young Bruce Springsteen — is that it doesn’t shy away from soul-deep pain. ” – New York Times Oct 23, 2025 Full Review The Mastermind (2025) 90% EDIT “Here, the robbery is more of a beginning in a low-key funny and sharp look at a character -- as well as a larger world -- in thrall to narcissistic self-interest.” – New York Times Oct 20, 2025 Full Review A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE (2025) 75% EDIT “Few jokes and smiles are cracked in “A House of Dynamite,” a deadly serious what-if movie that follows American government and military personnel, among others, after an unidentified ballistic missile enters national airspace. ” – New York Times Oct 9, 2025 Full Review The Celluloid Closet (1995) 96% EDIT “Too bad the resulting film is not a landmark, or, for that matter, particularly new. ” – L.A. Weekly Oct 8, 2025 Full Review Anemone (2025) 53% EDIT “The problem is that as “Anemone” continues, the strength of the actor’s performance lays bare the banality of the writing, and Ray’s grip on your imagination loosens even as Day-Lewis’s remains fixed.” – New York Times Oct 2, 2025 Full Review Orwell: 2 + 2 = 5 (2025) 84% EDIT “Anchored by Orwell’s writing — and Damian Lewis’s calm, intimate voice-over — Peck charts the writer’s life in tandem with world-shattering events, focusing on when he was working on “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” which was published in 1949.” – New York Times Oct 2, 2025 Full Review One Battle After Another (2025) 94% EDIT “Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another” is an exciting, goofy and deadly serious big-screen no — a no to complacency, to oppression, to tyranny. ” – New York Times Sep 25, 2025 Full Review
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