In truth, “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close” isn't about Sept. 11. It's about the impulse to drain that day of its specificity and turn it into yet another wellspring of generic emotions: sadness, loneliness, happiness. This is how kitsch works.… — Manohla Dargis Copy Share Image
The movie industry is failing women. And until the industry starts making serious changes, nothing is going to change. — Manohla Dargis Copy Share Image
Ben Stiller isn't funny - honest. Ben Stiller is very funny, and smart, and cute, too, in a neurotic, New York kind of way. — Manohla Dargis Copy Share Image
There isn’t anything good to say about Kick-Ass 2, the even more witless, mirthless follow-up to Kick-Ass. — Manohla Dargis Copy Share
Moment by moment, with a twitch, a shudder, a look, it's Mr. Hardy who movingly draws you in, turning a stranger's face into a… — Manohla Dargis Copy Share Image
In 1963 ... The Vatican condemned Dr. No as a 'dangerous mixture of violence, vulgarity, sadism and sex.' Ka-ching! — Manohla Dargis Copy Share Image
Dancer, bride, runaway wife, radical filmmaker and pioneer - Shirley Clarke is one of the great undertold stories of American independent cinema. — Manohla Dargis Copy Share
The New World is rated PG-13 (Parents strongly cautioned). There is some intense, bloodless violence and the beautiful underage lead actress (15-year-old Q'orianka Kilcher)… — Manohla Dargis Copy Share Image
Created for MTV in 1990, the sharply observed, pop-conscious Ben Stiller Show - featuring its star's lacerating impersonations of Bono, Tom Cruise, and Eddie… — Manohla Dargis Copy Share Image
The great irony is that women are accused of making romantic comedies, as if it's a bad thing, but [(500) Days of Summer] Marc Webb makes a romantic comedy and he gets Spider-Man [as his next project]. Are you kidding me? You cannot win. — Manohla Dargis Copy Share
An acquired taste, this dense Jabberwocky-ish word salad is a political allegory about a populace that's been pharmaceutically duped into believing its wretched world… — Manohla Dargis Copy Share Image
American commercial cinema has long been dominated by men, but I don’t think there has ever been another time when women have been as… — Manohla Dargis Copy Share Image
