...к фильмам вроде “Операция Валькирия”, “The Reader” и пр., очень точно (лучше, чем когда-либо получилось бы у меня) выражено в нескольких рецензиях в Нью-Йорк Таймз. Вот несколько цитат: Manohla Dargis о “The Reader”: Although the commercial imperatives that drive a movie like this one are understandable, [...] you have to wonder who, exactly, wants or perhaps needs to see another movie about the...

A Collection of Best and Worst Movies for 2008

... 9) Forgetting Sarah Marshall 8) The Visitor 7) Milk 6) Gran Torino 5) I've Loved You So Long 4) In Bruges 3) The Wrestler 2) The Dark Knight 1) Slumdog Millionaire Manohla Dargis' ( New York Times critic) Top 10 of 2008 (In Alphabetical Order): Alexandra The Dark Knight Encounters at the End of the World Flight of the Red Balloon Happy-Go-Lucky Paranoid Park Silent Light Still Life ...

99.9% of the population thinks Ben Lyons is douchetastic

... be mentioned in the same breath as heavyweight critics such as Ebert, who writes for the Chicago Sun-Times, the Wall Street Journal's Joe Morgenstern, The Times' Kenneth Turan, or the New York Times' Manohla Dargis any time soon. But then again, you don't see any of those critics posing for snapshots with many of the same celebrities they write about, as you do on Lyons' blog The Lyons Den -- a...

Heath Ledger as Joker in The Dark Knight

... I thought Heath's Joker reminded me of Hannibal Lecter. He was just totally evil. Then I followed the link in the above article to the New York Times references and read this by Manohla Dargis.. Pitched at the divide between art and industry, poetry and entertainment, it goes darker and deeper than any Hollywood movie of its comic-book kind — including “Batman Begins,” ... Mr. Nolan has ...

GOF Review in today's New York Times

The Young Wizard Puts Away Childish Things By MANOHLA DARGIS Published: November 17, 2005   Childhood ends for Harry Potter, the young wizard with the zigzag scar and phantasmagorical world of troubles, not long after the dragons have roared and the merpeople have screeched their empty threats through broken teeth. And, as in the book "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" ...