By focusing on such a narrow slice of Nepali life, Ms. Spray and Mr. Velez have ceded any totalizing claim on the truth and instead settled for a perfect incompleteness.
Manohla DargisIn 1963 ... The Vatican condemned Dr. No as a 'dangerous mixture of violence, vulgarity, sadism and sex.' Ka-ching!
Manohla DargisMoment by moment, with a twitch, a shudder, a look, itโs Mr. Hardy who movingly draws you in, turning a strangerโs face into a life.
Manohla DargisPaprika is evidence that Japanese animators are reaching for the moon, while most of their American counterparts remain stuck in the kiddie sandbox.
Manohla DargisIt looked like Ben Stiller was one of the showbiz meteorites who was moving so fast he would soon have no worlds left to conquer.
Manohla DargisAndrรฉ Bazin wrote that art emerged from our desire to counter the passage of time and the inevitable decay it brings. But in โBoyhood,โ Mr. Linklater's masterpiece, he both captures moments in time and relinquishes them as he moves from year to year. He isn't fighting time but embracing it in all its glorious and agonizingly fleeting beauty.
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