Manohla June Dargis (/məˈnoʊləˈdɑːrɡɪs/mə-NOH-ləDAR-ghiss)^[1] is an Americanfilm critic. She is the chief film critic forThe New York Times.^[2] She is a five-time finalist for thePulitzer Prize for Criticism.

Before being a film critic forThe New York Times, Dargis was a chief film critic for theLos Angeles Times, the film editor at theLA Weekly, and a film critic atThe Village Voice, where she had two columns onavant-garde cinema ("CounterCurrents" and "Shock Corridor"). Her work has been included in a number of books, includingWomen and Film: A Sight and Sound Reader andAmerican Movie Critics: An Anthology from the Silents Until Now, published by theLibrary of America. She wrote a monograph onCurtis Hanson's filmL.A. Confidential for theBritish Film Institute and served as the president and vice-president of theLos Angeles Film Critics Association.^{[citation needed]}

In 2012, Dargis received the Nelson A. Rockefeller Award fromPurchase College; the award is, according to the college, "presented to individuals who have distinguished themselves through their contributions to the arts."^[3] She was also a finalist for thePulitzer Prize for Criticism in 2013,^[4] 2015,^[5] 2016,^[6] 2018,^[7] and 2019.^[8]

Dargis participated in the2012Sight & Sound critics' poll,^[9] where she listed her 10 favorite films:

For the 2022 edition of the Sight & Sound poll^[10] Dargis' ballot included:

• 2004 -Million Dollar Baby^[11]
• 2005 -A History of Violence^[12]
• 2006 -Army of Shadows^[13]
• 2007 -There Will Be Blood
• 2008 -Happy-Go-Lucky
• 2015 - (tie)The Assassin;Mad Max: Fury Road^[14]
• 2016 -No Home Movie^[15]
• 2017 -Dunkirk^[16]
• 2018 -Roma^[17]
• 2019 -Pain and Glory^[18]
• 2020 -Martin Eden^[19]
• 2021 -Drive My Car^[20]
• 2022 -EO^[21]
• 2023 -Killers of the Flower Moon^[22]
• 2024 -All We Imagine as Light^[23]

Dargis grew up inManhattan'sEast Village, demonstrating an early love of film through regular attendance at St. Mark's Cinema andTheatre 80.^[2] She graduated fromHunter College High School and received her BA in literature fromState University of New York at Purchase in January 1985.^[24][25] She received a master of arts in cinema studies in 1988 from theNew York University Graduate School of Arts and Science. Dargis married wine expert Lou Amdur in 1994. They live in Los Angeles.^[26]

• New Yorkers in journalism

• List of Dargis film reviews atThe New York Times
• https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/ref/movies/reviews/author/rev_auth_dargis/index.html
• List of Dargis articles atThe New York Times
• Manohla Dargis atIMDb
• Interview with Dargis, by Steve Erickson,Senses of Cinema, November 2002.

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• The Village Voice people
• American women film critics
• Journalists from Los Angeles
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