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Nicolas Rapold

Agrees with the Tomatometer 60% of the time.

Publications:: Film Comment Magazine , L.A. Weekly , Reverse Shot , Time Out New York , Village Voice

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
2/5	52%	Ch�ri (2009)	— Time Out Posted Nov 18, 2011
1/5	76%	Afterschool (2008)	— Time Out Posted Nov 17, 2011
2/5	81%	No Impact Man: The Documentary (2009)	— Time Out Posted Nov 17, 2011
2/5	78%	Anonyma - Eine Frau in Berlin (A Woman in Berlin) (2009)	— Time Out Posted Nov 17, 2011
3/5	64%	Kimjongilia (2009)	— Time Out Posted Nov 17, 2011
3/5	37%	The Other End of the Line (2008)	— Time Out Posted Nov 17, 2011
1/5	22%	Staten Island (Little New York) (2009)	— Time Out Posted Nov 16, 2011
	93%	Drive (2011)	" While you could lean back and nod along to Refn's posturing, the film plays more like an exercise in turn-of-the-Eighties nostalgia, a movie-length strong-silent swagger inspired by the art on a VHS box." — Film Comment Magazine Posted Oct 9, 2011
	92%	The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu (2011)	" As Ujica digs deeper, he enacts a petard-hoisting watchfulness." — Village Voice Posted Sep 10, 2011
	81%	Life in a Day (2011)	" The resulting object is less about the world than about itself, and feels like a hey-that's-neat 90-minute troll through the video-sharing website." — Village Voice Posted Jul 26, 2011
	61%	The Beaver (2011)	" Foster's curious movie is at once a realisation of the kind of "risky" script that never gets made and an unwitting signifier of typical Hollywood contrivance." — Sight and Sound Posted Jun 21, 2011
	88%	United Red Army (2011)	" Wakamatsu puts this history across with the uncompromising insistence of a nailed-up manifesto." — Film Comment Magazine Posted May 11, 2011
	58%	To Die Like A Man (2011)	" While indebted to Fassbinder, Rodrigues finds his own distinct register of melodrama and demonstrates an ability to up the stakes with unexpected stylistic choices or dramatic coups." — Film Comment Magazine Posted Apr 29, 2011
	92%	My Perestroika (2011)	" A refreshing alternative to many fictional representations of large nations weathering cataclysmic changes." — Film Comment Magazine Posted Apr 29, 2011
—	——	Deceitful Storm (2008)	— Village Voice Posted Apr 12, 2011
	44%	Ex Drummer (2011)	" The flashy adaptation of the book by aging Belgian provocateur Herman Brusselmans is as systematically offensive and boisterously vulgar as its degenerate punk protagonists. Or at least that's the aim." — Village Voice Posted Mar 1, 2011
	87%	The Last Lions (2011)	" Doubling as cinematographer, Dereck Joubert skillfully integrates slow-motion and creates a rich sense of space with godlike long shots." — Village Voice Posted Feb 15, 2011
	25%	Certifiably Jonathan (2011)	" The big-kid-bulky Dayton-born comedian gets some welcome playtime in Jim Pasternak's patchwork tribute, but not nearly enough." — Village Voice Posted Feb 9, 2011
	75%	The Housemaid (2011)	" Despite eccentric touches, like a handheld street-shot overture and Grand Guignol Omen references, there's little difference between this story and soap-opera intrigue." — Village Voice Posted Jan 18, 2011
	76%	Summer Wars (Sama Wozu) (2010)	" It's hard to appreciate things like the character detail amid the insufferably squealy voicing and arbitrary suspense." — Village Voice Posted Dec 29, 2010
	——	Mundane History (2010)	" The ultimate break comes with a glorious full-screen CGI zoom into blazing heavenly bodies, a refutation of the title's modesty. " — Village Voice Posted Dec 9, 2010
	80%	Beijing Taxi (2010)	" Wang's letter from Beijing feels too breezy and light on fresh insight." — Village Voice Posted Dec 7, 2010
	50%	Cool It (2010)	" Lomborg sounds like an infomercial huckster, down to the vow to have money for "all the remaining problems of the world" thanks to his low, low price for managing global warming." — Village Voice Posted Nov 9, 2010
	——	Double Tide ()	" For all the unvarnished coastal beauty and hypnotism in routine, there are stretches when the experience (of duration, of observation, of landscape art) can feel like, well, a bit of a chore." — Village Voice Posted Nov 9, 2010
	89%	The Temptation of St. Tony (P�ha T�nu kiusamine) (2010)	" �unpuu's orchestrations and barbed surprises, which greatly depend on cinematographer Mart Taniel (and various Estonian theater vets), hold continued promise." — L.A. Weekly Posted Sep 30, 2010
	92%	On the Bowery (1957)	" A fine-grained picture of stasis, both on the street and in the faces of lifers shuffling into gin mills and flophouses." — Wall Street Journal Posted Sep 17, 2010
	83%	Mesrine: Public Enemy #1 (L'ennemi public n1) (2010)	" Mesrine's promised end in November 1979 arrives as history recorded it, but, by that time, you're hoping the next vogue in biopics is the short film." — Village Voice Posted Aug 24, 2010
	82%	Mesrine: Killer Instinct (L'instinct de mort) (2010)	" No small problem, too, is that the film yields only a rudimentary sense of what it was like to live in France or Canada in the '60s and '70s if you weren't a gangster in a movie." — Village Voice Posted Aug 24, 2010
	74%	Soul Kitchen (2010)	" Since the filmmaker's main agenda here is to keep things bumping along, the fraught situations are happily played and funk-scored as crowd-pleasing rather than issue-stroking." — Village Voice Posted Aug 17, 2010
3/5	93%	Living in Emergency: Stories of Doctors Without Borders (2010)	" Those jumps between missions are confusing, but the in-field kvetching and no-holds-barred shots of wounds make this a vivid dispatch from the frontlines." — Time Out New York Posted Jun 2, 2010
	20%	Convention (2009)	" The film's frustrating treatment is actually more like the local reporter who is shown struggling to stay in the loop." — Village Voice Posted Jun 1, 2010
	87%	Cropsey (2010)	" The latest Cinema Purgatorio release is really a scary story told in the dark, in the get-this whisper of documentary." — Village Voice Posted Jun 1, 2010
	90%	Ghost Bird (2009)	" Backed by an eclectic soundtrack, Crocker's 2009 doc traces the hubbub around the decades-departed ivory-billed woodpecker, purportedly rediscovered near Brinkley, Arkansas." — Village Voice Posted Apr 28, 2010
	84%	The Good, the Bad, and the Weird (2010)	" Kim's filmmaking is generally cartoonish in a bad sense, as he squanders his set pieces, flashbacks, and other attention-getting with sometimes downright wretched staging." — Village Voice Posted Apr 20, 2010
	91%	The Secret in Their Eyes (El Secreto de Sus Ojos) (2010)	" Say what you will, but the lead actors in Argentine director Juan Jos� Campanella's latest film do have lovely (or at least handsomely shot) peepers. But the secrets you ultimately find therein are hilarious." — Village Voice Posted Apr 14, 2010
	27%	After.Life (2010)	" What might have played well as a multipage Poe rumination gradually gets pulled to bits by thudding Ricci-Neeson face-offs in the poster-ready funeral-prep chamber." — Village Voice Posted Apr 6, 2010
2/5	89%	Hubble 3D (2010)	" Audiences expecting a blissout of swirling galaxies will wonder why so much time is spent on astronauts sweating over screws and bolts." — Time Out New York Posted Mar 17, 2010
3/5	64%	Kimjongilia (2009)	" A horrifying-fascinating peek into a "hermit kingdom" that's a bigger mystery than life on other planets." — Time Out New York Posted Mar 17, 2010
2/5	75%	Severe Clear (2010)	" Everything zips by our eyes, thanks to the director's penchant for editing together footage of mutilated corpses and tense gunfire way too snappily." — Time Out New York Posted Mar 10, 2010
2/5	68%	The Yellow Handkerchief (2010)	" A wispy story of revelation that's blessed with gorgeously photographed Southern discomfort, and beset by on-the-nose dialogue and awkward time-shifting." — Time Out New York Posted Feb 24, 2010
	34%	Formosa Betrayed (2010)	" Neither the investigation nor the suspense (hobbled by editorializing) have much impact; the movie, necessarily shot in Thailand, plays like secret-history tourism." — Village Voice Posted Feb 23, 2010
	84%	The Ghost Writer (2010)	" What actually happens is less important than the barest glimmers of that old Polanski magic." — Village Voice Posted Feb 16, 2010
3/5	57%	Barefoot To Timbuktu (barfuss Nach Timbuktu) (2010)	" Like a good after-dinner story, the film's charm comes from casual storytelling, enhanced by gently barbed interviews with Aebi's family and ex-wife." — Time Out New York Posted Feb 10, 2010
	91%	Terribly Happy (Frygtelig lykkelig) (2010)	" Cedergren is a little too bland, but that works with Hansen's air of haplessness and sets him apart from the colorful locals." — Village Voice Posted Feb 2, 2010
	100%	Still Bill (2010)	" Though he's ready with easy charm, [Withers'] sensibly jaded edge makes things interesting (both tendencies may be reactions to stuttering since childhood)." — Village Voice Posted Jan 26, 2010
	60%	Loot (2009)	" The bleakness and resignation running through the film can be gut-wrenching." — Village Voice Posted Dec 2, 2009
3/5	64%	The Missing Person (2009)	" Though Ryan Samul's textured cinematography makes the stubble and shadows seem nearly 3-D, the story chokes on a dull twist from Rosow's past." — Time Out New York Posted Nov 18, 2009
1/5	22%	Staten Island (Little New York) (2009)	" Staten Island is not without surprises -- nor is it any good." — Time Out New York Posted Nov 18, 2009
3/5	73%	The Good Soldier (2009)	" An explicitly antiwar conclusion unwisely makes the grim focus feel like a bias, but the power of the interviews makes one wish for more stories, not fewer." — Time Out New York Posted Nov 11, 2009

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