Manohla Dargis

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L.A. Weekly, Los Angeles Times, The New York Times
For 2,350 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 2.5 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Manohla Dargis' Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 63
Highest review score: 100 Mulholland Dr.
Lowest review score: 0 Lolita
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,183 out of 2350
  2. Mixed: 898 out of 2350
  3. Negative: 269 out of 2350
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Manohla Dargis
    Human Flow
    What Mr. Ai seeks is to go far beyond the nightly news; he wants to give you a sense of the scale of the crisis, its terrifying, world-swallowing immensity. And so he jumps from one heartbreak to the next.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 90 Manohla Dargis
    Professor Marston & the Wonder Women
    A sly and thoroughly charming Trojan horse of a movie.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Manohla Dargis
    Marshall
    Like his character, Mr. Boseman is the star of this show, while Mr. Gad is the second banana and often comic relief. Both performers are natural showmen who never step on each other’s moment; they’re fun to watch.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Manohla Dargis
    American Made
    Mr. Cruise’s brisk, ingratiating performance — all smiles, hard-charging physicality and beads of sweat — does a lot to soften the edges. But Mr. Liman doesn’t press Mr. Cruise to dig into the character, and the actor mostly hurdles forward in a movie that never gets around to asking what makes Barry run and why.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Manohla Dargis
    The Force
    The movie may offer an incriminatory catalog of organizational failure, but it also repeatedly shows people trying to make the system work.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Manohla Dargis
    Battle of the Sexes
    A glib, enjoyable fictionalization of the 1973 exhibition tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Manohla Dargis
    EX LIBRIS: The New York Public Library
    In “Ex Libris,” democracy is alive and in the hands of a forceful advocate and brilliant filmmaker, which helps make this one of the greatest movies of Mr. Wiseman’s extraordinary career and one of his most thrilling.
    • 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.
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