Manohla Dargis

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L.A. Weekly, Los Angeles Times, The New York Times
For 2,344 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 46% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 51% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 2.3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Manohla Dargis' Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 63
Highest review score: 100 The Fits
Lowest review score: 0 Lolita
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,182 out of 2344
  2. Mixed: 893 out of 2344
  3. Negative: 269 out of 2344
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    • 41 Metascore
    • 30 Manohla Dargis
    Home Again
    For her directorial debut, Home Again, Hallie Meyers-Shyer, Nancy Meyers’s daughter, has made a shabby copy of a Nancy Meyers romantic comedy.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Manohla Dargis
    Free in Deed
    Each time the movie edges into mannerism Mr. Harewood and Ms. Dickerson pull you close enough to make it hurt.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 30 Manohla Dargis
    The Dark Tower
    About the only thing holding it together is Idris Elba, whose irrepressible magnetism and man-of-stone solidity anchors this mess but can’t redeem it.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 90 Manohla Dargis
    Brigsby Bear
    Mr. Mooney, currently cutting it up on “Saturday Night Live,” manages the twists and tonal fluctuations in Brigsby Bear beautifully.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Manohla Dargis
    Atomic Blonde
    As she does, Ms. Theron locks down your attention immediately, holding you with her beauty and quiet vigilance.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 90 Manohla Dargis
    Escapes
    Mr. Fancher’s movie love and way of spinning a yarn to its near-breaking point — one detour opens onto another — dovetail nicely with the cinephilia and playfulness that characterize Mr. Almereyda’s movies.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 50 Manohla Dargis
    Amnesia
    Amnesia, Mr. Schroeder has said, is a story partly based on his mother, who refused to speak German, so perhaps it’s no surprise that it’s strongest when it focuses on Martha, a character Ms. Keller inhabits gracefully.
    • 94 Metascore
    • 100 Manohla Dargis
    Dunkirk
    Dunkirk is a tour de force of cinematic craft and technique, but one that is unambiguously in the service of a sober, sincere, profoundly moral story that closes the distance between yesterday’s fights and today’s.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Manohla Dargis
    Girls Trip
    Girls Trip adds complexity to the picture by bringing in class, even as it dispatches with whiteness, showing it the door so that these women can find themselves while rediscovering the power and pleasures of sisterhood.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Manohla Dargis
    Lady Macbeth
    Mr. Oldroyd boxes Katherine in his attractive visuals, imprisoning her as her male relatives do. Yet his intellectual distance also turns her into a specimen, a pinned butterfly turned taxidermy beast.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 30 Manohla Dargis
    False Confessions
    There is little to recommend here, even for Huppert completists who follow her anywhere.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 70 Manohla Dargis
    City of Ghosts
    More information and in-depth analysis, as well as greater restraint in the use of atrocity images, might have deepened a movie that leans on shortcuts and visual shocks.
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