Manohla Dargis, L.A. Weekly
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For 241 reviews, this critic has graded:
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33% higher than the average critic
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64% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 8.1 points lower than other critics.
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Manohla Dargis' Scores
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 74 out of 241
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Mixed: 106 out of 241
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Negative: 61 out of 241
241
movie reviews
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Manohla Dargis 80
Curiously, one of the film's stranger effects is that it's more convincing as a meditation on desire and Hollywood than as a biographical exploration. -
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Manohla Dargis 80
Hilarious, unnerving and remarkably intimate portrait of multiethnic adolescent life that lends vigorous new meaning to the term "teen movie." -
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Manohla Dargis 80
It doesn’t add up to much, which is part of the point as well as the fun, but what makes the film noteworthy is its pure pop adrenaline. -
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Manohla Dargis 80
The most purely entertaining movie to come out of Hollywood so far this year, and if that doesn't seem worthy of Soderbergh's talents, it's worthy enough for a night's amusement. -
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Manohla Dargis 80
After its electric opening -- one of the few occasions where Bean advances his case cinematically, showing rather than just telling -- the film rapidly assumes the shape of a 100-minute debate, as Danny argues against the Jews and, in the same breath, for them. -
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Manohla Dargis 80
Although he never matches the book in either brilliance or sheer perversity, Minghella has remained essentially true to his source. -
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Manohla Dargis 80
Wahlberg has turned into one of the most sympathetic and persuasive young actors around, and while his new movie remains safely, even shrewdly, in the middle of the road, he rocks. -
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Manohla Dargis 80
The best cheap thrill to come out of Hollywood in ages -- it's a shot of tonic for the current blockbuster bloat. -
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Manohla Dargis 80
Always adept at hitting emotional cues cleanly, Foster in this role also lets herself get lost in the moment, which is something she hasn't often allowed herself to do since "The Silence of the Lambs." -
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Manohla Dargis 80
What is remarkable is the absolute cool with which LaBute charts his story: The director has the soul of an assassin. -
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Manohla Dargis 80
Barbieri is a natural filmmaker, with an eye for film space and a gift for pacing. Both of his leads are wonderful, but it's Picoy who will break your heart. -
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Manohla Dargis 80
This tough, crackling thriller from director Gary Gray is one of those rare action movies with something on its mind other than moviestar sneers and incessant big bangs. -
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Manohla Dargis 80
Takes raw grief as its point of departure only to play out as a comedy of deadpan heartbreak. -
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Manohla Dargis 70
Jeffs' meticulous framing nicely counterpoints all the messy turmoil, and her screenplay flows with the cadences of life -- its awkward eruptions and long, hurtful silences -- but she never pulls you deep enough into her characters. -
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Manohla Dargis 70
The director has created a slick, newer-than-new, faster-than-fast entertainment to end all entertainments. -
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Manohla Dargis 70
There's never been a movie director like Catherine Breillat, a fearless visionary and one hell of a woman. -
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Manohla Dargis 70
Watching this well-behaved adaptation of one of Greene's most personal novels, you can't help but wish that the novelist had been around to write his own script. -
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Manohla Dargis 70
Brother is a solid return to gangster form for Kitano, who knows how to transcend the most overly familiar genre clichés without betraying the rules of engagement. -
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Manohla Dargis 70
Throws us directly into the ring for one of the most brutal fight scenes in American film. -
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Manohla Dargis 70
The movie is glorious pulp pastiche without the smirks, which is fitting given the author's ironic humanism. -
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Manohla Dargis 70
What counts here aren't the girls, but the boys--and all the sweet and clumsy ways in which they make love to one another without once shedding their clothes. -
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Manohla Dargis 70
Smith has created the raunchiest romantic comedy in recent American film, and one of the most good-natured. -
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Manohla Dargis 70
The movie is ridiculous, but since the special effects are really quite impressive, that seems a small point. -
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Manohla Dargis 70
Although what ensues is generally unsurprising and as pro forma down-and-dirty as the genre dictates, it's also on occasion rather affecting. -
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Manohla Dargis 70
Election is finally, necessarily, as much about sex as it is about politics -- wanting it, getting it, losing it. -
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Manohla Dargis 70
This paranoid thriller has all the failings we expect...but Enemy of the State also has enough wit, talent and narrative thrust to mostly transcend those flaws, at least until that ludicrous finish. -
