Manohla Dargis
Another Summer Spoiled: NY Times Critic Dargis Again Hits 'Separate an
June 14th, 2011 2:58 PM
Joyless New York Times movie critic Manohla Dargis took to the Sunday Arts & Leisure page to spoil yet another summer movie season by ranting about the alleged paucity of roles for women on film: “The Living Is Easy; The Women Are Missing.”
If you’re a woman who roared, snorted or sniggered at 'Bridesmaids,' if you like watching other women on screen, you should see it again. Because that…
Times Watch Quotes of Note: Beware the 'Symbolic Phallus' of Summer Mo
May 13th, 2011 2:29 PM
Newt Gingrich: He’s No Mario Cuomo
"Whatever can Newt Gingrich be thinking? That’s the question a lot of political handicappers are asking now that Newt, as he is universally known in Washington, has decided to enter the 2012 campaign, with an announcement expected on Wednesday. Until recently, most of my colleagues assumed that the former speaker of the House, who flirted with running four…
NY Times Critic Dargis Laments Lack of Women in Summer Movies and "the
May 2nd, 2011 2:15 PM
New York Times movie critics Manohla Dargis and A. O. Scott spray the new crop of summer flicks with a dose of liberal guilt in Sunday’s “Gosh, Sweetie, That’s a Big Gun.” Dargis in particular just can’t be pleased with how women are portrayed by Hollywood. Three years ago she greeted the summer season with "Is There a Real Woman in This Multiplex?” On Sunday she lamented that the women on…
