Marc Mohan, Portland Oregonian
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For 456 reviews, this critic has graded:
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65% higher than the average critic
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2% same as the average critic
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33% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 9.2 points higher than other critics.
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Marc Mohan's Scores
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 317 out of 456
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Mixed: 118 out of 456
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Negative: 21 out of 456
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Marc Mohan 83
Viewers looking for a propagandistic take will be disappointed, but even those who doubt the overall framework and existence of the so-called War on Terror should appreciate this thrilling tale of the hunt for the world's most wanted man.- Posted Jan 10, 2013
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Marc Mohan 91
While what's on screen is unsparing and clinically presented, the underlying, almost invisible humanity and artistry of the film inspire rather than depress.- Posted Jan 24, 2013
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Marc Mohan 100
For a film that consists largely of a series of talking-head interviews, The Gatekeepers is a riveting a documentary.- Posted Feb 16, 2013
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Marc Mohan 100
With a level-gazed approach to its milieu, empathetic but clear-eyed, Winter's Bone practically makes up for 40 years of "Deliverance"-style hillbilly cartoons. -
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Marc Mohan 91
Takes on the air of a heist film as the preparations proceed, and even knowing the outcome, tension still remains. -
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Marc Mohan 83
The first to take a big-picture view of just how the plans for postwar occupation went so far off track. -
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Marc Mohan 100
The acting is flawless, the world feels utterly real, and the finale accomplishes the miracle of finding in the everyday world something profound. -
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Marc Mohan 91
The result is a gripping film which, despite the annoying rugrat, demonstrates how part of leaving childhood behind is learning how and when to lie, and to do it well. -
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Marc Mohan 83
What makes the Dardennes' films so powerful is their refusal to judge, positively or negatively, their characters. -
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Marc Mohan 91
As unpleasant as so many of its going-on are, Wake in Fright works both as an early instance of "Ozploitation" cinema and as a harsh critique of Australian colonialism and the absurdity of trying to bring so-called civilization to this vast arid wilderness.- Posted Oct 18, 2012
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Marc Mohan 75
It may not be the most memorable saga put on film, but as far as Miike is concerned, it doesn't have to be.- Posted Jun 2, 2011
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Marc Mohan 75
Spielberg manages to give us a Lincoln for our times, inspiringly heroic but demonstrably human.- Posted Nov 15, 2012
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Marc Mohan 75
Ultimately, the story can be seen as the collision of two equally uncompromising belief systems, each its own form of fundamentalism. That neither benefits from the encounter should come as no surprise to anyone with the slightest knowledge of human history.- Posted Mar 24, 2011
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Marc Mohan 83
The period details are spotless, kindling memories of those days of yellow ribbons and nightly news updates on the fate of the American hostages.- Posted Oct 11, 2012
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Marc Mohan 83
Difficult to sit through, Our Daily Bread is nonetheless an important record, invaluable for those with the courage to watch it. -
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Marc Mohan 67
Ultimately, though, it's hard not to feel like Hou is saying more explicitly and expansively in nearly two hours what Lamorisse managed to convey in only one-fourth as much film. -
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Marc Mohan 91
Akin is German-born but of Turkish heritage, and his films have often been concerned with the particular clashes and conflicts between those cultures. This film, though, does so in a much more oblique way than 2004's "Head-On." -
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Marc Mohan 83
This combination of fatalism, nostalgia and willfully naive optimism captures something essential in the Russian soul. -
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Marc Mohan 83
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.- Posted Mar 28, 2013
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Marc Mohan 91
A keenly observed, typically high-quality family drama of the sort only the French seem capable of making anymore. -
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Marc Mohan 83
While the third act inevitably bogs down a bit in gunplay and chases, there are more than enough moments of visual wonder and storytelling surprise to make it worth the trip.- Posted Sep 27, 2012
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Marc Mohan 75
The overall thrust of the story -- that downtrodden folks in desperate circumstances have the capacity for goodness -- is one too rarely seen. -
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Marc Mohan 91
The halting dialogue, full of awkward pauses and restarts, seems improvised in the way that only carefully scripted material can. -
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Marc Mohan 75
The film works as well as it does thanks to Kimberly Roberts' magnetic screen presence. -
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Marc Mohan 83
In the fine tradition of well-made thrillers, it's enough that it all feels solid at the moment, and the final revelations are unexpected and seemingly inevitable. -
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Marc Mohan 91
With this amoral business environment, it's not a question of if there will be another Enron, but when. -
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Marc Mohan 100
An alternately harrowing and poetic take on the fatal 1982 hunger strike of Irish Republican Army prisoner Bobby Sands, Hunger is also one of the most impressive feature directing debuts in years. -
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- Posted Apr 7, 2011
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Marc Mohan 91
As numbing as the drumbeat of downbeat documentaries can be, as hard as it is to even be shocked at the depravities committed in our name, a film like this remains important, both as an indictment of the present day and as a warning to future generations that the ends don't always justify the means. -
