Manohla Dargis of The New York Times wrote that Scott was " one of the most influential film directors of the past 25 years, if also one of the most consistently and egregiously underloved by critics " and called him " ne of the pop futurists of the contemporary blockbuster ".

He has called Village Voice critic J. Hoberman " pathetic ", " despotic ", " traitorous ", and " racist ", describing him as " the scoundrel-czar of contemporary film criticism " whose malign " influence ( as NYU instructor to the Times ' Manohla Dargis and innumerable Internet clones ) stretches from coast to coast, institution to institution "; he also categorically described Hoberman's associates in the film community as " brownshirts ", " fascists ", and " backward children ".

While some critics lauded the casting of Bill Murray as the voice of the title character, Garfield: The Movie met with mostly negative reviews: Manohla Dargis of the Los Angeles Times called it " soulless excuse for entertainment ", while Desson Thomson of The Washington Post said of the film " There's nothing to recommend about this film except its sheer innocuousness ".

The film generated mostly negative reviews, with Manohla Dargis of the Los Angeles Times describing it as " smug and reductive.

One of the best reviews came from Manohla Dargis in The New York Times, who called the film, " An unqualified triumph ," and praised Zhang Ziyi's performance, states: " Ms. Zhang's shockingly intense performance burns a hole in the film that gives everything, including all the other relationships, a sense of terrific urgency.

2046 was called the best film of 2005 by Michael Atkinson ( The Village Voice ), Daryl Chin ( Journal of Performance and Art ), Josef Brown ( Vue Weekly ), Sean Burns ( Philadelphia Weekly ), Will Sloan ( The Martingrove Beacon ), and Justine Elias ( The Guardian ), and was ranked among the top ten best films of the year by Manohla Dargis ( The New York Times ), Richard Corliss ( Time Magazine ), Same Adams ( Philadelphia City Paper ), Leslie Camhi ( The Village Voice ), Jason Anderson ( eye Weekly ), Gary Dretzka ( Movie City News ), Godfrey Cheshire ( The Independent Weekly ), Ty Burr ( The Boston Globe ), Liza Bear ( indieWIRE ), Edward Crouse ( The Village Voice ), Jeffrey M. Anderson ( The San Francisco Examiner ), John DeFore ( Austin American Statesman ), Brian Brooks ( indieWIRE ), Chris Barsanti ( Filmcritic. com ), F. X.

Manohla Dargis of the Los Angeles Times said the film " is closer in texture and consistency to individually wrapped American cheese than good, tangy English Cheddar.

The film generated mostly critical reviews, with Manohla Dargis of the Los Angeles Times describing it as " smug and reductive ".

In her review for the L. A. Weekly, Manohla Dargis wrote, " This isn't a profound film, or even an important one, but then it isn't trying to be ; it's so diverting and so full of small, satisfying pleasures, you don't realize how good it is until after it's over ".

Manohla Dargis of The New York Times states: " Unlike the 1966 British film on which it is based, with its abrasive star-making turn from Michael Caine, the new ' Alfie ' doesn't chase social significance-it just wants us to have a good time.

" New York Times film critic Manohla Dargis noted that " there are different ways to read the wild things, through a Freudian or colonialist prism, and probably as many ways to ruin this delicate story of a solitary child liberated by his imagination.

Manohla Dargis of the New York Times said the film " isn't half bad and ever so often is pretty good, filled with real sentiment, worked-through performances and a story textured enough to sometimes feel a lot like life.

Manohla Dargis of the New York Times said, " Low-key creepy rather than outright scary, the new Amityville marks a modest improvement over the original, partly because, from acting to bloody effects, it is better executed ; and partly because the filmmakers have downgraded the role of the priest, played in all his vein-popping glory by Rod Steiger in the first film and by a considerably more subdued Philip Baker Hall here.

" Manohla Dargis of The New York Times wrote, after The World's premiere at the New York Film Festival, that the film was a " quietly despairing vision of contemporary China with an almost ethnographic attention to detail " but perhaps had an overly " cavalier attitude to narrative momentum.

In her review for The New York Times, Manohla Dargis wrote, " The Good Shepherd is an origin story about the C. I. A., and for the filmmakers that story boils down to fathers who fail their sons, a suspect metaphor that here becomes all too ploddingly literal ", but praised De Niro's direction: " Among the film ’ s most striking visual tropes is the image of Wilson simply going to work in the capital alongside other similarly dressed men, a spectral army clutching briefcases and silently marching to uncertain victory ".

Jordan Mintzer from Variety called Stewart " the heart and soul of the film " and praised her for giving " both weight and depth to dialogue ... she makes Bella's psychological wounds seem like the real deal " Manohla Dargis from The New York Times said Stewart's " lonely-girl blues soon grow wearisome " throughout the film and Billy Goodykoontz from The Arizona Republic stated " Stewart is a huge disappointment ... She sucks the energy right out of the film ".

They soon split up too however, and Creston once again tried to convince his old Marine friend Steve Dargis to join him, simply because Creston thought he had the right look for a band.

In her review for the Los Angeles Times, Manohla Dargis wrote, " Tightly directed by newcomer Adam McKay, a former head writer on Saturday Night Live who cooked up the screenplay with Ferrell, Anchorman never reaches the sublime heights of that modern comedy classic There's Something About Mary.

Manohla Dargis of the New York Times observed " Until now, Ms. Mol has been best known for her premature designation several years ago as Hollywood's newest It Girl.

Many reviewers attacked this perceived self-indulgence: Manohla Dargis of The New York Times wrote of the story, " Apparently those who live in the water now roam the earth trying to make us listen, though initially it ’ s rather foggy as to what precisely we are supposed to hear — the crash of the waves, the songs of the sirens, the voice of God — until we realize that of course we're meant to cup our ear to an even higher power: Mr. Shyamalan.

New York Times reviewer Manohlia Dargis said: " Even in the age of Girls Gone Wild, it's genuinely startling to see a name actress throw caution and perhaps her career to the wind.

Manohla Dargis of The New York Times wrote that " Ms. Kunis is fast proving that she's a gift that keeps giving to mainstream romantic comedy " and " her energy is so invigorating and expansive and her presence so vibrant that she fills the screen ".

Manohla Dargis of the Los Angeles Times observed, " Unlike the novel, which is written in the first person.

Manohla Dargis, of the Los Angeles Times, complimented the action, saying, " certainly seems equipped to develop into a mid-weight alternative to Vin Diesel.

Dry and academic where Troy ( 2004 ) was vulgar and willfully ahistorical " Manohla Dargis wrote in The New York Times that Alexander " brought out the best of the worst in terms of inaccurate storytelling that lacks planning.

In the New York Times review of the movie Serenity, Manohla Dargis had this to say about the character and Nathan Fillion: " Mal is no Neo redux ; he's closer to Indiana Jones, if absent Harrison Ford's rakishly handsome looks and star magnetism.

However, Manhola Dargis of the New York Times states that " The back of my paperback copy of this Khaled Hosseini novel is sprinkled with words like ' powerful ' and ' haunting ' and ' riveting ' and ' unforgettable '.

Manohla Dargis described it recently as " the great, despairing Night Moves ( 1975 ), with Gene Hackman as a private detective who ends up circling the abyss, a no-exit comment on the post-1968, post-Watergate times.

" Manohla Dargis of the Los Angeles Times noted that the image of the girl lured into prostitution might be a cliché, but held the director's honest intention as an acceptable excuse: " Moodysson wants us to see that there's a real person under the platitudes ".

* New York Times Review by Manohla Dargis

* " An Appraisal: An Artist of the Cutting-Room Floor ", by Manohla Dargis, New York Times July 12, 2008 ; retrieved July 12, 2008.

* Tokyo Drifter essay at the Criterion Collection by Manohla Dargis.

Manohla Dargis of the New York Times said that " the characters [...] indicate that minstrelsy remains as much in fashion in Hollywood as when, well, Jar Jar Binks was set loose by George Lucas.

Dargis, however, had fewer problems with the film's pace and instead felt that Jia's vision was overly insular, " mesmerized " by World Park with only fleeting glimpses of the city beyond.

Childhood's End -- apparently indebted to Kurd Lasswitz's Utopian romance, Auf Zwei Planeten ( 1897 ), and also to Wells's Histories Of The Future, especially, The World Set Free ( 1914 ) and The Shape Of Things To Come ( 1933 ) -- describes the bloodless conquest of earth by the Overlords, vastly superior creatures who come to our world in order to prepare the human race for its next stage of development, an eventual merging with the composite mind of the universe.

The novel, which is not merely dystopian but also brilliantly satiric, describes a future America where one-sixteenth of the population, the men who run advertising agencies and big corporations, control the rest of the people, the submerged fifteen-sixteenths who are the workers and consumers, with the government being no more than `` a clearing house for pressures ''.

Soul is believed to be indestructible. None of the five elements can harm or influence it. Hinduism through Garuda Purana also describes in detail various types of " Narkas " or Hells where a person after death is punished for his bad Karmas and dealt with accordingly.

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" The Abyssinians possess also the Ark of the Covenant ", he wrote, and, after a description of the object, describes how the liturgy is celebrated upon the Ark four times a year, " on the feast of the great nativity, on the feast of the glorious Baptism, on the feast of the holy Resurrection, and on the feast of the illuminating Cross.

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It has also been argued that this is the third part of the poem since it describes the settings during the time lapse before the final battle between Beowulf and the Dragon.

The poet also describes the horror of death in battle, a theme continued from the second part of the poem, through the Last Survivor ’ s eyes.

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Similarly, when Jean de Schelandre wrote about Banquo in his Stuartide in 1611, he also changed the character by portraying him as a noble and honourable man — the critic D. W. Maskell describes him as “… Schelandre's paragon of valour and virtue ”— probably for reasons similar to Shakespeare's.

Australian Aboriginal astronomy also describes dark cloud constellations, the most famous being the " emu in the sky " whose head is formed by the Coalsack.

Retzius also describes how farmers would plant chives between the rocks making up the borders of their flowerbeds, to keep the plants free from pests ( such as Japanese beetles ).

The term also describes films that have remained popular over a long period of time amongst a small group of followers.

The term cretin describes a person so affected, but, as with words such as spastic, idiot and lunatic, also is a word of abuse.

In his fictional historical essay " The Hyborian Age ", Howard describes how the people of Atlantis — the land where his character King Kull originated — had to move east after a great cataclysm changed the face of the world and sank their island, settling where Ireland and Scotland would eventually be located, Thus they are ( in Howard's work ) the ancestors of the Irish and Scottish ( the Celtic Gaels ) and not the Picts, the other ancestor of modern Scots who also appear in Howard's work.

Bede also describes hot baths in the geographical introduction to the Ecclesiastical History in terms very similar to those of Nennius.

" Romare Bearden described Alston as "... one of the most versatile artists whose enormous skill led him to a diversity of styles ..." Bearden also describes the professionalism and impact that Alston had on Harlem and the African American community: "' was a consummate artist and a voice in the development of African American art who never doubted the excellence of all people's sensitivity and creative ability.

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