Andrรฉ 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.
Manohla DargisThe movie industry is failing women. And until the industry starts making serious changes, nothing is going to change.
Manohla DargisCreated for MTV in 1990, the sharply observed, pop-conscious Ben Stiller Show - featuring its star's lacerating impersonations of Bono, Tom Cruise, and Eddie Munster, among others - subsequently moved to Fox TV and copped an Emmy for writing.
Manohla DargisBen Stiller isn't funny - honest. Ben Stiller is very funny, and smart, and cute, too, in a neurotic, New York kind of way.
Manohla DargisMr. Lapid, making an electrifying feature directing debut, traces the line between the group and the individual in a story that can be read as a commentary on the world as much as on Israel.
Manohla DargisAmerican commercial cinema has long been dominated by men, but I donโt think there has ever been another time when women have been as underrepresented on screen as they are now. The biggest problem isnโt genuinely independent cinema, where lower budgets mean more opportunities for women in front of and behind the camera. The problem is the six major studios that dominate the box office, the entertainment chatter and the popular imagination. Their refusal to hire more female directors is immoral, maybe illegal, and has helped create and sustain a representational ghetto for women.
Manohla Dargis