Manohla Dargis
Critic Overview in Movies
Critic Reviews for Movies
Jun 18, 2026
Toy Story 560
Jun 18, 2026
It’s fine, pretty and amusing, but if no one’s heart seems in it, perhaps it’s time to make way for other toys.
Jun 11, 2026
Disclosure Day90
Jun 11, 2026
Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day is one of those movies that sweeps you up from the start and rarely lets you down.
Jun 6, 2026
Underland60
Jun 6, 2026
This is that rare movie that could do with a longer running time, which would, perhaps, give it greater depth.
May 28, 2026
Power Ballad50
May 28, 2026
There are some promising themes in “Power Ballad” — the soulful joys of collaboration, the precarity of celebrity, the evils of the music industry — but the movie never develops them. Instead, the director John Carney, who wrote the script with Peter McDonald, keeps everything nice and insistently light, gesturing at complexities rather than delving into them.
Apr 30, 2026
The Devil Wears Prada 270
Apr 30, 2026
Like the first movie, the second is a sleek diversion with brittle and sharp laughs, truckloads of couture threads and lashings of light drama.
Apr 23, 2026
I Swear40
Apr 23, 2026
Jones has turned a life into a hackneyed survivor’s story with cartoon villains, cardboard saints, pretty scenery, mewling piano notes and expedient, drama-goosing epiphanies.
Apr 16, 2026
Mother Mary40
Apr 16, 2026
The downer here is that Lowery doesn’t seem to know what to do with his stars, performers who are never better than when they’re just doing what they do best — you know, acting.
Apr 9, 2026
Exit 890
Apr 9, 2026
Exit 8 is a pip and as fun to watch as it is to mull over.
Apr 3, 2026
The Blue Trail60
Apr 3, 2026
Alas, Tereza, whose interior life remains largely obscured from start to finish, isn’t a compelling vessel for whatever Mascaro is trying to do in this movie. And, as it drifts from one place to another, one encounter to another, one sketchy idea to another, so may your attention.
Apr 2, 2026
The Drama50
Apr 2, 2026
Zendaya and Pattinson are both enjoyable to watch, but she’s given too little to do and he’s given too much.