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“The movie industry is failing women. And until the industry starts making serious changes, nothing is going to change.”

Quote by Manohla Dargis

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Manohla Dargis is a prominent film critic, born in 1961. She has made substantial contributions to the field of cinema criticism with her insightful and thought-provoking reviews. Dargis has been a regular contributor to The New York Times, shaping the discourse on cinema for over two decades. more

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“That Ms. Farahani found Mr. Mohassess and persuaded him to share his story is a terrific coup, even if a great deal of his life's work remains elusive.”

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“In scene after scene, meaning sneaks in and sometimes roars.”

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“Mr. 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.”

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“The weave of the personal and the political finally proves as irresistible as it is moving, partly because it has been drawn from extraordinary life.”

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“Moment by moment, with a twitch, a shudder, a look, it’s Mr. Hardy who movingly draws you in, turning a stranger’s face into a life.”

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“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.”

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“There isn’t anything good to say about Kick-Ass 2, the even more witless, mirthless follow-up to Kick-Ass.”

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“Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It's seeing through the facade of pretence. It's the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true.”

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