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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    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Marc Mohan
    Rush
    The result is a solid film, but one that remains more interesting than intense.
    • 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.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 67 Marc Mohan
    A Woman in Berlin
    Like "The Reader," this film treads unsteadily over the terrain of German guilt.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 83 Marc Mohan
    Higher Ground
    Ultimately, though, this is a story about a conflicted, intelligent, flawed, moral woman making her way through her life.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 67 Marc Mohan
    Ain't Them Bodies Saints
    It’s disappointing that, with such talent and seriousness of intent, the movie ultimately doesn't have much new to say. To paraphrase “The Simpsons”’ Milhouse, it started out like "Bonnie and Clyde," but instead it ended in tragedy.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Marc Mohan
    Into the Abyss
    This is more Errol Morris' or Truman Capote's territory than Herzog's, and his patient, determinedly respectful interviews with members of the American underclass bear a whiff of European condescension.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Marc Mohan
    The Attack
    The central figure in The Attack is the very picture of a tolerant, integrated future for the Mideast. When a horrific blast kills 17 people and sends dozens of wounded to his hospital, he's elbow-deep trying to save the victims, even the one who refuses help from an Arab.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Marc Mohan
    Vixen!
    By today's standards the sexuality is fairly discreet, the color cinematography is brilliant and the sense of absurdity marks this as one of Meyer's bust, er, best, efforts. [22 Oct 2004, p.39]
    • Portland Oregonian
    • 74 Metascore
    • 67 Marc Mohan
    The Italian
    The juvenile performances are impressive, as they usually are in foreign films, and Spiridonov handles some grueling material with impressive maturity. But the movie comes undone with an abrupt and preposterous finale.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 67 Marc Mohan
    The Duchess of Langeais
    The performances are solid and subtle, with Depardieu growing nicely into the brooding, smarter-than-he-looks roles his father tackled for years.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Marc Mohan
    Starlet
    Convincing performances from Hemingway and the charmingly crabby Johnson and an unhurried pace ensure that Baker's film achieves its modest goals.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Marc Mohan
    Joe
    Joe works better as a study of character and environment than as the thriller it tries to become in its final act.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 83 Marc Mohan
    Japanese Story
    Collette proves herself worthy of carrying a movie with a performance that runs the gamut of human emotion without striking one false note.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 67 Marc Mohan
    Like Father, Like Son
    If Like Father, Like Son had set up a genuine conflict here, this could have been a fascinating, even gut-wrenching, melodrama. Instead, writer-director Hirokazu Kore-eda stacks the deck by making Ryota such a highfalutin jerk and Yudai such an exemplar of cozy, loving family life.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Marc Mohan
    The Bourne Supremacy
    Solid summer entertainment set in a recognizably real world.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 83 Marc Mohan
    A Most Wanted Man
    As usual in Le Carre's world (and the real one), a measured, rational approach faces an uphill battle against the philistines who really run the show. That predictably weary attitude is both the best — as embodied in Hoffman's performance — and worst — in its weary predictability — things about A Most Wanted Man.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 83 Marc Mohan
    The Princess and the Frog
    It's no "Fantasia" or "Sleeping Beauty," but it's no "The Rescuers Down Under," either.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 91 Marc Mohan
    The Impossible
    An extraordinarily gut-wrenching, intense story of survival against all odds.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 83 Marc Mohan
    For the Bible Tells Me So
    In this involving if slightly unfocused documentary, director Daniel Karslake takes a two-pronged approach in examining how religion has been interpreted -- some would say twisted -- into, at its worst, monomaniacal homophobia.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 58 Marc Mohan
    American Sniper
    If the star does his utmost to make a one-dimensional character interesting, his director, Clint Eastwood, adapts Kyle's memoir — a life story rife with moral complexity — by hammering it flat.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Marc Mohan
    Cold in July
    While Shepard just does his grim, weathered, Sam Shepard shtick, and Hall seems oddly miscast as the tense, prickly Dale, Johnson's easy, gritty charm is a much-needed buffer between their colliding obsessions.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 75 Marc Mohan
    America: Freedom to Fascism
    Mostly it's about taxes -- namely, the argument that the Federal Income Tax, enacted in 1913, is unconstitutional and has been ruled as such by the Supreme Court, and that no law exists today requiring Americans to pay it.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 67 Marc Mohan
    Liberal Arts
    More convincing are the performances from Jenkins and Allison Janney, as another of Jesse's old profs. Both these pros bring more depth to their supporting characters than either of the promising, but, alas, young, leads do to theirs.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 83 Marc Mohan
    Tales of the Rat Fink
    In addition to a vast array of incredible autos crafted from fiberglass, Roth also created the anti-Mickey cartoon character Rat Fink, a deranged-looking, filthy rodent.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 83 Marc Mohan
    In the Land of Women
    Solid acting, especially from the women, and a few good Colin Farrell jokes make this familiar tale better than it probably should be.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Marc Mohan
    Diplomacy
    Ignorance is bliss, maybe. If you don't know (and the film doesn't tell you, though the press notes do) that Diplomacy plays fast and loose with the known facts, it's a thrilling, even moving drama. But learning the truth gives an unpleasant aftertaste to a movie that's otherwise a solid piece of work.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 67 Marc Mohan
    In Bloom
    While In Bloom offers an authentic slice of life from a particular time and place, it never gets close enough to its characters, physically or emotionally, to really hit home.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 83 Marc Mohan
    God Grew Tired of Us
    Fortunately, their story is just as compelling here, and the film's subjects display impressive adaptability, as well as a desire not to forget those they've left behind.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 83 Marc Mohan
    Tell Them Who You Are
    As fascinating as all the film history is, the movie's core is the dynamic between a famous but distant parent and his child.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 67 Marc Mohan
    Safety Not Guaranteed
    The movie shifts awkwardly from slapstick firearms training sessions to tender campfire kisses to straightforward suspense (who are those mysterious trench-coated figures?). Combined with unconvincing behavior from all of its characters, that's enough to leave this a disappointing realization of a potentially fascinating idea.
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