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Manohla Dargis (born April 1961) is one of the chief film critics for The New York Times. She was formerly a film writer at the Village Voice, the film critic for the Los Angeles Times, and the editor of the film section at LA Weekly. She has written for a variety of publications, including Film Comment and Sight and Sound.

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Movie Review | 'Mammoth': Bourgeois Bohemians, There’s a Price to Pay

Michelle Williams, Gael Garcia Bernal and Sophie Nyweide in “Mammoth,” directed by Lukas Moodysson. Don’t hate them because they’re beautiful. Don’t hate them because they’re thin and young and glowing with health. Don’t hate them because they live in ...

From MANOHLA DARGIS, The New York Times,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Michelle Williams,  Lukas Moodysson,  Gael Garcia Bernal,  Santos, Ltd.

Movie Review | 'The Twilight Saga: New Moon': Abstinence Makes the Heart ... Oh, You Know

The big tease turns into the long goodbye in “The Twilight Saga: New Moon,” the juiceless, near bloodless sequel about a teenage girl and the sparkly vampire she, like, totally loves. When last we saw Bella (Kristen Stewart) and her pretty dead guy, ...

From MANOHLA DARGIS, The New York Times,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Kristen Stewart,  Robert Pattinson,  Stephenie Meyer,  Chris Weitz,  Catherine Hardwicke

Movie Review | 'The Sun': When Dusk Finally Settled on the Emperor

At one point in the Russian director Alexander Sokurov’s beautiful and eccentric movie “The Sun,” the emperor Hirohito begins enthusing about a preserved hermit crab, the sounds of war planes having subsided. “What a miracle!” Hirohito (Issey Ogata) ...

From MANOHLA DARGIS, The New York Times,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Eva Braun

Film: Madness or Method? Tough to Tell

THERE are any number of characteristic Nicolas Cage scenes in Werner Herzog’s “Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans,” interludes you watch with a now-familiar mixture of genuine appreciation and more than a touch of bewilderment. In one Mr. Cage, ...

From MANOHLA DARGIS, The New York Times,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Nicolas Cage,  Werner Herzog,  George Clooney,  Abel Ferrara,  Harvey Keitel

Movie Review | 'Pirate Radio': Rock Boys’ Adventure, With BBC as the Enemy

Boys will be boys and at often top volume in “Pirate Radio,” Richard Curtis’s fanciful fiction about rebel broadcasters who, in the mid-1960s, blasted British airwaves and eardrums with the Stones, the Kinks and the Who, among other youth-quaking ...

From MANOHLA DARGIS, The New York Times,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: BBC,  Richard Curtis,  Jimi Hendrix,  Dusty Springfield,  Kenneth Branagh

Movie Review | 'Women in Trouble': Love, Sex, Whatever

To judge by the swelling bosoms spilling out of the frame, the lingerie bill for “Women in Trouble” must have been estimable. An ensemble piece that never coheres despite a clutch of appealing actresses — notably Carla Gugino and Emmanuelle Chriqui — ...

From MANOHLA DARGIS, The New York Times,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Sebastian Gutierrez,  Carla Gugino,  Robyn Hitchcock,  Robert Altman,  Josh Brolin

Movie Review | '2012': When the World Hangs in the Balance, a Reliable Calendar Is Needed

I know what I have against Roland Emmerich — “The Patriot,” for starters — but what does he have against us? He’s bombarded Earth with alien death rays, big-footed it with a rampaging reptile and put it into deep freeze. Now in “2012,” his latest ...

From MANOHLA DARGIS, The New York Times,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Roland Emmerich,  Woody Harrelson,  George Segal,  Sony,  Danny Glover

Movie Review | 'The Men Who Stare at Goats': Mission Mind Control in Defense of America

In “The Men Who Stare at Goats” George Clooney wears a heavy mustache and a somewhat shaggier version of the military haircut called a high and tight, two adjectives which also describe his performance in this likable, lightweight, absurdist comedy. ...

From MANOHLA DARGIS, The New York Times,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: George Clooney,  Grant Heslov,  Jon Ronson,  Jeff Bridges,  Stephen Lang

Film: A Tragic Ballerina Dances Again, Her Shoes Now Redder Than Ever

“Why do you want to dance?” barks the imperious ballet impresario Boris Lermontov in “The Red Shoes,” the 1948 masterpiece from Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. Moira Shearer in the 1948 ballet classic “The Red Shoes,” now newly restored and ...

From MANOHLA DARGIS, The New York Times,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Moira Shearer,  Emeric Pressburger,  University of California, Los Angeles,  Martin Scorsese,  Paul Klee

Movie Review | 'The Box': Simplifying One Life, Complicating Another

Richard Kelly, the writer and director of the much-loved “Donnie Darko” and much-loathed “Southland Tales,” has a thing for the apocalypse. Like those films, his latest, “The Box,” is sincere and sinister and inevitably ambitious, a serious work that ...

From MANOHLA DARGIS, The New York Times,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Richard Kelly,  Richard Matheson,  Cameron Diaz,  James Marsden,  NASA

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