13 Quotes by Manohla Dargis

Paprika is evidence that Japanese animators are reaching for the moon, while most of their American counterparts remain stuck in the kiddie sandbox.

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.

An acquired taste, this dense Jabberwocky-ish word salad is a political allegory about a populace that’s been pharmaceutically duped into believing its wretched world is wonderful.

Ben Stiller isn’t funny – honest. Ben Stiller is very funny, and smart, and cute, too, in a neurotic, New York kind of way.

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

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

Created 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.

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.

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.