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Manohla Dargis

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Dracula (2025) 65% EDIT “Jude is an interesting, admirably unorthodox filmmaker who likes to push his viewers. Here, he simply punishes us.” – New York Times Oct 30, 2025 Full Review Auction (2024) 90% EDIT “As “Auction” continues, issues of identity linger, and the movie quietly deepens. ” – New York Times Oct 29, 2025 Full Review Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (2025) 59% EDIT “The great surprise of “Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere” — a solid, very likable, very affecting drama about an anguished period in the life of the young Bruce Springsteen — is that it doesn’t shy away from soul-deep pain. ” – New York Times Oct 23, 2025 Full Review The Mastermind (2025) 91% EDIT “Here, the robbery is more of a beginning in a low-key funny and sharp look at a character -- as well as a larger world -- in thrall to narcissistic self-interest.” – New York Times Oct 20, 2025 Full Review A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE (2025) 76% EDIT “Few jokes and smiles are cracked in “A House of Dynamite,” a deadly serious what-if movie that follows American government and military personnel, among others, after an unidentified ballistic missile enters national airspace. ” – New York Times Oct 9, 2025 Full Review The Celluloid Closet (1995) 96% EDIT “Too bad the resulting film is not a landmark, or, for that matter, particularly new. ” – L.A. Weekly Oct 8, 2025 Full Review Anemone (2025) 56% EDIT “The problem is that as “Anemone” continues, the strength of the actor’s performance lays bare the banality of the writing, and Ray’s grip on your imagination loosens even as Day-Lewis’s remains fixed.” – New York Times Oct 2, 2025 Full Review Orwell: 2 + 2 = 5 (2025) 84% EDIT “Anchored by Orwell’s writing — and Damian Lewis’s calm, intimate voice-over — Peck charts the writer’s life in tandem with world-shattering events, focusing on when he was working on “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” which was published in 1949.” – New York Times Oct 2, 2025 Full Review One Battle After Another (2025) 95% EDIT “Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another” is an exciting, goofy and deadly serious big-screen no — a no to complacency, to oppression, to tyranny. ” – New York Times Sep 25, 2025 Full Review Boogie Nights (1997) 91% EDIT “Boogie Nights is a big, bold movie not just because it embraces nearly a decade's worth of human drama, but because it is a wildly, belligerently cinematic creation.” – L.A. Weekly Sep 24, 2025 Full Review Megadoc (2025) 98% EDIT “As entertaining as that is, it’s Figgis’ sharp eye and obvious sympathies that make the biggest impression, along with the titanic subject in his sightlines.” – New York Times Sep 19, 2025 Full Review The Lost Bus (2025) 87% EDIT “Greengrass knows how to shoot and cut, but “The Lost Bus” is at once too high-minded and too exploitative to work. ” – New York Times Sep 19, 2025 Full Review Spinal Tap II: The End Continues (2025) 66% EDIT “The good news about “Spinal Tap II” is that everyone involved seems to have understood the assignment, which makes for a genial 83 minutes of soft jokes and jowls. ” – New York Times Sep 11, 2025 Full Review Riefenstahl (2024) 97% EDIT “In his coolly damning documentary “Riefenstahl,” the German filmmaker Andres Veiel joins a persistent cohort of skeptics and detractors who have long challenged Riefenstahl’s self-serving identity as an innocent artist. ” – New York Times Sep 4, 2025 Full Review Caught Stealing (2025) 84% EDIT “The whole thing moves fast, despite all the complications, and looks consistently attractive; even the grime and gore are nicely lit. ” – New York Times Aug 28, 2025 Full Review Relay (2024) 80% EDIT “Relay, a slick, sneaky thriller that’s elevated by both the actor and the director, David Mackenzie, makes it clear that Ahmed also has a silent-era performer’s gift for feverish stillness. ” – New York Times Aug 21, 2025 Full Review Mortal Kombat (1995) 44% EDIT “Mortal Kombat isn't the worst movie of the year, but it's easily the most forgettable.” – L.A. Weekly Aug 20, 2025 Full Review Suspended Time (2024) 68% EDIT “It’s a piercing, headily thoughtful passage about time and memory and cinema; if only it were longer.” – New York Times Aug 14, 2025 Full Review Nobody 2 (2025) 77% EDIT “Nobody didn’t deviate far from the action template, but it has offbeat humor, appealing performers and some tight, wittily choreographed fight sequences that made smart use of Odenkirk’s comedy chops.” – New York Times Aug 14, 2025 Full Review Highest 2 Lowest (2025) 84% EDIT “A Spike Lee tribute becomes an exultant Spike Lee joint. ” – New York Times Aug 14, 2025 Full Review An Officer and a Spy (2019) 78% EDIT “An Officer and a Spy is well-crafted.” – New York Times Aug 7, 2025 Full Review Weapons (2025) 93% EDIT “Weapons may not be about anything much other than Cregger’s talent, but the guy knows how to slither under your skin — and stay there.” – New York Times Aug 7, 2025 Full Review The Naked Gun (2025) 88% EDIT “As the movie continues, though, [Neeson] adds emotional texture to the character and another, somewhat similar yet also different-enough Frank Drebin emerges.” – New York Times Jul 31, 2025 Full Review Waterworld (1995) 59% EDIT “Surprise, it neither stinks nor sinks. ” – L.A. Weekly Jul 28, 2025 Full Review Red Rock West (1993) 95% EDIT “A cowboy noir as lean and taut as Cage's belly, Red Rock isn't original, but it is fresh, in part because the film takes itself seriously.” – L.A. Weekly Jul 15, 2025 Full Review
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