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Thursday, April 23, 2026

‘I Swear’ Review: Surviving and Thriving Against the Odds by Manohla Dargis

The British actor Robert Aramayo rises above the clichés in a biographical drama about a man living with Tourette’s syndrome.

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Thursday, April 2, 2026

'The Blue Trail' Review: A Drifting Journey Into Freedom by Manohla Dargis

In an imaginary Brazil, where older people are forcibly removed from society, a resolute 77-year-old seeks her independence in the Amazon.

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Thursday, February 12, 2026

'Wuthering Heights' Review: Margot Robbie, Amok on the Moors by Manohla Dargis

The actor and Jacob Elordi play the tortured lovers from the Emily Brontë classic in this florid, overstuffed version by Emerald Fennell.

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Friday, November 21, 2025

'Wicked: For Good' Review: Two Besties Till the End by Manohla Dargis

Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande return to Oz for the second part of Jon M. Chu's maximalist adaptation of the Broadway musical.

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Thursday, October 23, 2025

'Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere' Review: The Boss in the Void by Manohla Dargis

Jeremy Allen White plays the singer-songwriter in an affecting drama about the making of his 1982 album "Nebraska" when he slipped into a terrible darkness.

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Sunday, September 14, 2025

I Finally Solved My Ethan Hawke Problem by Manohla Dargis

A star since he was teenager, Hawke left our critic cold for several movies. But as he grew as an actor, his performances won her over.

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Thursday, June 12, 2025

'Sex' Review: Two Men Talk About and Around the Subject by Manohla Dargis

A chimney sweep and his colleague get deep on the roofs of Oslo in Dag Johan Haugerud's curious meditation on marriage and masculinity.

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Thursday, March 20, 2025

'Snow White' Review: A Princess's Progress by Manohla Dargis

The new live-action version of Disney's 1937 animated fairy tale has drawn (maddening) criticism for its casting and an updated story. But liberation only goes so far.

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Thursday, February 13, 2025

'Becoming Led Zeppelin' Review: The Master Blasters by Manohla Dargis

A new documentary looks back at the band's early years, featuring interviews with Robert Plant, Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones in retrospective mode.

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Thursday, January 23, 2025

'Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story' Review: Her Life as a Cabaret by Manohla Dargis

The fizzy, determinedly upbeat documentary charts how Liza Minnelli survived Hollywood. It's inspiring, jaw-dropping and conspicuously incomplete.

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Thursday, November 21, 2024

'Wicked' Review: Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande in Oz by Manohla Dargis

Cynthia Erivo is the strongest draw in this splashy, overly long movie, which is the first installment in a two-part adaptation of the Broadway show.

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Sunday, January 14, 2024

'Mean Girls' Review: 'Get in, Loser,' Regina George Is Back by Manohla Dargis

Still puffily padded but no longer particularly tart, this shape-shifting classic about the girls you love to hate retains its ingratiating charms.

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Thursday, December 10, 2020

'The Prom' Review: Showbiz Sanctimony, and All That Zazz by Manohla Dargis

Ryan Murphy takes on the Broadway hit "The Prom," with help from Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman and Keegan-Michael Key.

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Thursday, October 15, 2020

'David Byrne's American Utopia' Review: Opening a Wide, Wonderful World by Manohla Dargis

Spike Lee joins forces with David Byrne for a joyous concert movie that rocks and delights, sending you high and then higher.

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Wednesday, September 25, 2019

'Judy' Review: The Singer (Disaster, Legend) at Rainbow's End by Manohla Dargis

Renée Zellweger plays Judy Garland near the end of her life, when she grasped onto one more comeback and one last chance.

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Thursday, April 25, 2019

'The White Crow' Review: The Young Nureyev, Gotta Dance! Gotta Defect! by Manohla Dargis

Ralph Fiennes directs this biographical look at the ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev's early life, including his 1961 defection to the West.

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Tuesday, October 23, 2018

Critic's Notebook: In 'A Star Is Born,' Equality Is Deadly by Manohla Dargis

Bradley Cooper, in the third remake of the movie, tells a story of men, women and male sacrifice that has been portrayed over and over.

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Wednesday, October 3, 2018

Review: The Gorgeous Heartbreak of 'A Star Is Born' by Manohla Dargis

Bradley Cooper, who directed and stars with Lady Gaga, creates thrills with a steadfast belief in old-fashioned, big-feeling cinema.

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Thursday, May 17, 2018

The Best and Worst of Cannes, Maybe Coming to a Theater Near You by Manohla Dargis

"Happy as Lazzaro" and "Burning" are strong entries, so it's too bad they won't mean much to the American box office.

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Tuesday, January 2, 2018

Review: The Incomplete Vision of 'Anatomy of a Male Ballet Dancer' by Manohla Dargis

This documentary about the dancer Marcelo Gomes was completed before he left American Ballet Theater in December after allegations of sexual misconduct.

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Thursday, September 7, 2017

One Nation Under a Movie Theater? It's a Myth. by Manohla Dargis and A.o. Scott

Hollywood wants us to think that its films are for everyone, but our critics say that was never true. Still, they see a way forward.

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Tuesday, September 5, 2017

Review: In 'Spettacolo,' a Tuscan Town Where All the World's a Stage by Manohla Dargis

A documentary about Monticchiello in Italy, where each year the residents put on a play about their most urgent concerns.

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Thursday, July 13, 2017

Review: With 'False Confessions,' the Play's Not Quite the Thing by Manohla Dargis

Isabelle Huppert and Louis Garrel star in a screen version of an 18th-century Marivaux play and the last film directed by Luc Bondy.

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Monday, February 27, 2017

'Moonlight,' 'La La Land' and What an Epic Oscars Fail Really Says by Manohla Dargis, Wesley Morris and A.o. Scott

Three New York Times critics share their reactions to the wrong best picture being announced at the awards show.

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Wednesday, November 23, 2016

'La La Land' Makes Musicals Matter Again by Manohla Dargis

Damien Chazelle's film infuses Hollywood movies with a vision and energy that have been sorely missing.

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Friday, December 4, 2015

Review: 'Macbeth,' Starring Michael Fassbender, Awash in Gorgeous Carnage by Manohla Dargis

Justin Kurzel's film suggests that there is a timeless quality to slaughter, raising questions about Macbeth's guilt and freedom of will.

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Tuesday, August 25, 2015

Review: Elisabeth Moss at All Angles in 'Queen of Earth' by Manohla Dargis

Alex Ross Perry's narrative experiment, starring Katherine Waterston and Ms. Moss, turns out to be an art house film in quotation marks.

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Monday, May 25, 2015

Arthur Penn, a Director Attuned to His Country by MANOHLA DARGIS

The director Arthur Penn, who died at 88 on Sept. 28, made loose, vital movies that have no place in today's Hollywood.

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A Powerful Chorus Harmonizing ‘Dark Phrases of Womanhood’ by MANOHLA DARGIS

With “For Colored Girls” Tyler Perry works very hard and gets it mostly right.

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Thursday, March 12, 2015

Review: In 'Cymbeline,' a Drug Kingpin by Manohla Dargis

Michael Almereyda's version of "Cymbeline" reaffirms that Shakespeare can always survive every interpretive trick.

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Thursday, October 16, 2014

Movie Review: 'Birdman' Stars Michael Keaton and Emma Stone by Manohla Dargis

Alejandro G. Iñárritu's comedy "Birdman" stars Michael Keaton as a onetime movie superhero betting his career on a strange Broadway play.

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