Tag: Manohla Dargis

  • And the 2022 Oscar Nominees Should Be… The New York Times 2022-01-14 Illustrations by Ben Denzer If our chief critics Manohla Dargis and A.O. Scott had their way, these are the films and the people who would be up for Academy Awards. Best Picture: Drive My Car, Passing, The Power of The Dog Best Director:…

  • Review: In ‘Loving,’ They Loved. A Segregated Virginia Did Not Love Them Back. The New York Times 2016-11-03 Manohla Dargis, Movie Critic Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton as Mildred and Richard Loving in the Jeff Nichols film “Loving.” Credit Ben Rothstein/Focus Features There are few movies that speak to the American moment as movingly —…

  • To the Manner Born? The New York Times 2014-05-01 Manohla Dargis ‘Belle’ Centers On a Biracial Aristocrat in the 18th Century No bodices seem to have been harmed, much less ripped, during the making of “Belle,” a period film at once sweeping and intimate, about an 18th-century Englishwoman who transcends her historical moment. Even so,…

  • How the Movies Made a President The New York Times 2009-01-16 Manohla Dargis A. O. Scott Barack Obama’s victory in November demonstrated, to the surprise of many Americans and much of the world, that we were ready to see a black man as president. Of course, we had seen several black presidents already, not in…

  • Hollywood’s Whiteout The New York Times 2011-02-11 Manohla Dargis A. O. Scott CRAMMED into this year’s field of 10 best picture Oscar nominees are British aristocrats, Volvo-driving Los Angeles lesbians, a flock of swans, a gaggle of Harvard computer geeks, clans of Massachusetts fighters and Missouri meth dealers, as well as 19th-century bounty hunters, dream…