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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    • 58 Metascore
    • 67 Marc Mohan
    To the Wonder
    Lyrical and gorgeous, it indulges in enough trademark Malickian touches to seem almost a parody of itself.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 67 Marc Mohan
    The Girl Who Played with Fire
    A solid, twisting, well-acted mystery, but it strains credulity at times, and its ultimate revelations are unsurprising and, when you think back on the whole film, confusing. It also lacks a distinctive atmosphere, shot in an almost TV-style flatness.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 67 Marc Mohan
    May in the Summer
    As is, it's a pleasant but unremarkable retelling of a story as old as the Dead Sea itself.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 67 Marc Mohan
    Out of the Furnace
    Like last year’s vaguely similar “Killing Them Softly,” “Furnace” reeks of '70s-inspired, downbeat, politically conscious genre filmmaking. And its cast is composed of hard-working, seemingly omnipresent actors who understand what Cooper’s after.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 67 Marc Mohan
    Stage Beauty
    For those to whom life is but a stage, this will be sweet, sweet candy; to those of us destined to be their audience, it's a satisfying, if flawed, look behind the curtain.
    • 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.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 67 Marc Mohan
    Love and Other Drugs
    They could have made a harder-hitting, more realistic film, but then no one would have gone to see it.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 67 Marc Mohan
    THX 1138
    It's not a question of Lucas' right to revamp his own work -- the movie simply was much better without these absurd additions.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 67 Marc Mohan
    Moonlight
    This gritty take on Grimm's suffers from mannered supporting performances and an inconsistent level of realism.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 67 Marc Mohan
    Trash
    The result is an uneasy mix of social-issue realism and escapist excitement that's ultimately disposable.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 67 Marc Mohan
    Spy
    Some of the combat scenes work, including a kitchen-set hand-to-hand battle that's one of the movie's highlights, but more often they feel superfluous at best.
    • 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.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 67 Marc Mohan
    The Duchess
    Ultimately, though, it's unfortunate that the movie tries to make so many oblique comparisons to more modern tragedy (paparazzi with sketchbooks; yes, we get it!), since Georgiana's life seems fascinating enough on its own.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 67 Marc Mohan
    Extraordinary Measures
    It's a refreshingly human-scale saga.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 67 Marc Mohan
    Dedication
    Dedication would've been better if it had stuck to its disreputable guns instead of going all mushy and predictable, and slathering an emo soundtrack over everything.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 67 Marc Mohan
    At Any Price
    By combining formulaic screenwriting and downbeat art house clichés, the ending puts a significant damper on what had been a fascinating character study.
    • 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.
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    • 61 Metascore
    • 67 Marc Mohan
    Muppets Most Wanted
    Once the story proper begins, it too feels slightly out of time.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 67 Marc Mohan
    Chappie
    With a titanium body and a child's mind, Chappie is a fascinating figure, vividly rendered, enough so that you wish there was a better movie around him.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 67 Marc Mohan
    Slow West
    Despite convincing work from its cast, the movie remains oddly uninvolving.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 67 Marc Mohan
    Joy
    An inspirational, and mostly entertaining, saga, Joy is a Horatio Alger story for the 21st century — but who reads those anymore?
    • 77 Metascore
    • 67 Marc Mohan
    A Band Called Death
    A Band Called Death is more effective as a chronicle of the intensely close relationship between three musically ambitious brothers than as proto-punk archaeology.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 67 Marc Mohan
    War, Inc.
    Comes up with some decent jokes, including a talking car-based GPS system which doubles as a therapist, and a suggestive Yonica number titled "I Want to Blow You Up," but fails to surround them with a compelling story or characters who rise above the level of cliche.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 67 Marc Mohan
    Love in the Time of Cholera
    When characters are required to grow old over the course of a decades-spanning story, as in Love in the Time of Cholera, it's still a hit-or-miss proposition whether the combination of makeup and performance skills will convince us that a character is 40 years older than the actor.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 67 Marc Mohan
    Dark Places
    Theron makes Libby a bristling, emotionally crippled live wire, her anger, guilt, and distrust bubbling to the surface with the slightest provocation. She's neither quite as fascinating nor nearly as despicable a character as "Gone Girl"'s Amazing Amy, but director Gilles Paquet-Brenner is no David Fincher.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 67 Marc Mohan
    Becoming Jane
    But if the notion that Austen was more reactive than creative in her writing is troubling, so is the idea that she needed Lefroy to make her into a great writer. "Experience is vital," he tells her. We should be glad this guy never got his paws on Emily Dickinson.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 67 Marc Mohan
    The Hunting Party
    The characters are flat, too: Richard Gere plays your typical desperate, embittered war reporter; Terrence Howard is your typical cameraman/sidekick/narrator; and Jesse Eisenberg rounds out the standard-issue trio as your typical nervous rookie, in over his head.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 67 Marc Mohan
    Penelope
    Reese Witherspoon, whose production company made Penelope, contributes an inflated cameo that feels forced.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 67 Marc Mohan
    Astro Boy
    In addition to the slick but generic computer animation, it's also got an A-list voice cast: Nicolas Cage as Dr. Tenma, the grieving inventor, and Donald Sutherland as a scheming politician.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 67 Marc Mohan
    Tokyo Sonata
    Only in the slightly overlong last act, as the family's misfortunes become truly existential, does director Kiyoshi Kurosawa take things to another level. Whether this is an extension of the film's social criticism, a comment on the absurdity of melodrama or straightforward audience manipulation, is anyone's guess.
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