Marc Mohan

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Portland Oregonian
For 771 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 65% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 33% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 4 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Marc Mohan's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 70
Highest review score: 100 Young@Heart
Lowest review score: 0 Cop Out
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 544 out of 771
  2. Mixed: 188 out of 771
  3. Negative: 39 out of 771
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Marc Mohan
    Hannah Arendt
    A watchable, even suspenseful portrait of a woman who spends most of the film smoking cigarettes, sitting at typewriters or sparring at dinner parties.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 67 Marc Mohan
    Digging for Fire
    Sometimes those kinds of movies work (just ask the Duplass brothers) and sometimes they seem like the cast and crew had more fun making them than you do watching them. This one sits somewhere in the middle.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 83 Marc Mohan
    What Our Fathers Did: A Nazi Legacy
    William Faulkner's oft-cited quote has rarely been more apt: "The past is never dead. It's not even the past."
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Marc Mohan
    Antarctica: A Year on Ice
    Despite all the camaraderie, natural beauty and exotic weather, though, you couldn't pay me enough to live there, especially not when there's a movie like this to show me what I'm missing.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 83 Marc Mohan
    Zero Motivation
    Although its three-part structure plays out more like sketch comedy than a fully-cooked story, Lavie's debut is an impressive and entertaining one.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 83 Marc Mohan
    Tell No One
    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.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 83 Marc Mohan
    How to Make Money Selling Drugs
    For most of its running time, How to Make Money Selling Drugs is a cheeky, moderately interesting look behind the curtain of the trade in contraband substances, from the corner dealer to the cartel-topping drug lord.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 83 Marc Mohan
    Into the Woods
    The big star with the most unexpected chops, though, is Chris Pine, who runs with his Prince Charming role and, along with Billy Magnussen as Rapunzel's Prince, contributes the movie's best musical moment with the duet "Agony."
    • 69 Metascore
    • 67 Marc Mohan
    Solitary Man
    In trying to make Kalmen's story unique, the film inadvertently exposes him as the most typical sufferer of midlife crises you could imagine.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 83 Marc Mohan
    The Foot Fist Way
    The always thin tightrope between "laughing at" and "laughing with" is negotiated with success in the low-budget comedy The Foot Fist Way.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 83 Marc Mohan
    Talk to Me
    Once Greene achieves fame, neither he nor the screenplay quite knows what to do; the first half-hour of Talk to Me is the most fun. But a vibrant feel for its era and a genuine affection for its characters make the whole thing a solid evocation of a time and a life worth remembering.
    • 93 Metascore
    • 100 Marc Mohan
    Inside Llewyn Davis
    As flawless as any film this year and rock-solid confirmation that Joel and Ethan Coen are the greatest filmmakers working in America (and perhaps anywhere else) today.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 91 Marc Mohan
    The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden
    This compelling piece of historical detective work is, in fact, less about what people have done to the islands than about what living on the islands has done to people.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Marc Mohan
    World's Greatest Dad
    Yes, a comedy, however dark, about a parent taking advantage of a child's death is a tough sell. But with Williams more restrained and sympathetic than he's been in years (again, faint praise), and a final act that makes up for a ponderous first third, "Dad" shows that it can be done.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Marc Mohan
    Dying to Know: Ram Dass & Timothy Leary
    Nothing tops the discussions of mortality between Leary and Ram Dass, during which both of these battered but unbowed explorers of reality come off as nothing less than enlightened.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 67 Marc Mohan
    The Wild Thornberrys Movie
    Provides adventure and humor in sufficient spoonfuls to make its pro-environment medicine go down smoothly for the target audience of grade-schoolers.
    • Portland Oregonian
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Marc Mohan
    Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself
    A distancing cynicism has been slathered over the story's maudlin core, with the hope perhaps that between these two conventional extremes resides a genuine emotional truth. That may be the case, but "Wilbur" doesn't quite get to it.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 67 Marc Mohan
    The Cuckoo
    The performances are solid, and Juuso has a particular charisma. The actors do a commendable job of revealing unimagined layers to their initially one-note roles.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 83 Marc Mohan
    Monsieur Ibrahim
    Warmhearted lesson in tolerance.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 58 Marc Mohan
    Sightseers
    It's neither grounded enough to be genuinely horrifying nor over the top enough to be nastily fun.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 67 Marc Mohan
    Reign Over Me
    The good news is that this movie is no "Spanglish;" the bad news is that Sandler's performance is actually better than the material deserves.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 67 Marc Mohan
    North Country
    Caro stumbles in a couple ways. By flashing forward throughout the film to scenes of the climactic courtroom showdown, she blunts the story's dramatic impact.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Marc Mohan
    Art and Craft
    The fascinating tale of master forger Mark Landis is especially bizarre, mostly because it doesn't involve the commission of a crime.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 91 Marc Mohan
    Casino Jack and the United States of Money
    Prolific documentarian Alex Gibney takes a labyrinthine, detail-laden story and crafts an attention-holding film, polemical without ranting.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Marc Mohan
    Chopper
    Bloody, profane and compelling, Chopper marks an impressive debut for Dominik and a revelation of Bana's talent.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 67 Marc Mohan
    The East
    The East never goes as deep undercover as it should.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 67 Marc Mohan
    Black Mass
    He's good, but Depp can't quite annihilate the self-consciousness that makes some of his more light-hearted work shine. Too often, it feels like he's channeling other actors: here he's Jack Nicholson with Hunter S. Thompson's nose, there he's an Irish-American Ray Liotta.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 91 Marc Mohan
    Taxi to the Dark Side
    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.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Marc Mohan
    Miracle
    Ordinary folks working together to triumph over incredible odds, depicted in a Disney film that doesn't overdose on sentiment? That's the real miracle.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 91 Marc Mohan
    Land Ho!
    Katz, who has been saddled with the deadly label "mumblecore" in the past, and Stephens ("Pilgrim Song") combine sensibilities of dry wit and warm earnestness in precise proportions. It's also further proof, if it were needed, that smart, funny, entertaining films are always around, even in the dog days of summer. You just have to know where to look.
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