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Critics / Nick Schager
Nick Schager
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NICK SCHAGER

Agrees with the Tomatometer 73% of the time.

Publications: Cinematical, DVD Angle, Filmcritic.com, Lessons of Darkness, Matinee Magazine, MovieWeb, Nitrate Online, PopMatters, Slant Magazine, The Screengrab, Time Out New York, Village Voice

Critics' Group: Online Film Critics Society

Total Reviews: 2085
Total QuickRatings: 1

Location: New York, NY

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Fresh
2.5/4

Fresh
83%

Videocracy (2010)

" A stylized, scattershot inquiry into Italy's TV-dominated culture, Videocracy is a portrait of 21st-century media fascism." — Slant Magazine

Posted Feb 9, 2010

Rotten
2.5/4

Fresh
67%

District 13: Ultimatum (2010)

" The fight-the-power scenario operates as a rebel fantasy of empowered French multicultural youth, yet it's one that never rises above cartoonishness." — Slant Magazine

Posted Feb 1, 2010

Rotten
0/4

Rotten
17%

When in Rome (2010)

" A romantic comedy of such staggering ineptness that it actually makes one wish the filmmaker would redirect his attention back to the superhero genre he sullied." — Slant Magazine

Posted Jan 28, 2010

Rotten
1.5/4

Rotten
41%

44 Inch Chest (2010)

" This limp psychodrama proves woefully short on character development or narrative structure." — Slant Magazine

Posted Jan 25, 2010

Rotten
1/4

Rotten
11%

Saint John of Las Vegas (2009)

" A tone-deaf odyssey of personal discovery striving to echo Dante's Inferno." — Slant Magazine

Posted Jan 25, 2010

Rotten
1/4

Rotten
18%

Legion (2010)

" Legion has the good sense to mimic a classic but otherwise makes no sense at all." — Slant Magazine

Posted Jan 22, 2010

Rotten
2/4

Rotten
44%

Creation (2010)

" Jon Amiel's portrait of Darwin's efforts to accept and acclimate to a new reality is mucked up by all manner of directorial flim-flam." — Slant Magazine

Posted Jan 20, 2010

Rotten
1.5/4

Rotten
45%

The Book of Eli (2010)

" Eli is nothing less than a prophet-superman on a divine mission, and while he naturally saves the word of God and, thus, humanity at large, he's powerless to salvage the film from its derivativeness." — Slant Magazine

Posted Jan 14, 2010

Rotten
0/4

Rotten
8%

The Spy Next Door (2010)

" Following in Mr. Nanny and The Pacifier's turgid footsteps, Brian Levant's film mushifies Chan into a comedic parody of his rock-'em-sock-'em big-screen persona." — Slant Magazine

Posted Jan 13, 2010

Rotten
1/4

Rotten
38%

Wonderful World (2010)

" Ben is such a stock type, and his circumstances are so doggedly implausible, that his ultimate transformation and happily-ever-after are a preordained conclusion that one must dutifully await while enduring squishy dramedy." — Slant Magazine

Posted Jan 5, 2010

Rotten
2/4

Fresh
66%

Daybreakers (2010)

" The Spierigs' latest doesn't do much to carve out a unique identity." — Slant Magazine

Posted Jan 5, 2010

Rotten

Fresh
81%

The Chaser (2008)

" The pessimism of Na's slick debut rings false." — Village Voice

Posted Dec 30, 2009

Fresh
A-

Fresh
68%

Sherlock Holmes (2009)

" Whiplash quick and twice as exciting." — Lessons of Darkness

Posted Dec 22, 2009

Rotten
C

Fresh
66%

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009)

" Unsuccessfully attempts to fashion an actual story out of slapdash, seemingly improvised sequences awash in uneven CG effects." — Lessons of Darkness

Posted Dec 22, 2009

Rotten
2/5

Rotten
58%

It's Complicated (2009)

" In Meyers’s milquetoast hands, the way the scenario plays out isn’t so much tricky as treacly, with sporadic bursts of sitcom goofiness." — Time Out New York

Posted Dec 16, 2009

Rotten
2/4

Fresh
93%

Crazy Heart (2009)

" This is simply a showcase for Jeff Bridges, and a reasonably decent one at that even when the script thrusts Bad down tediously hackneyed roads." — Slant Magazine

Posted Dec 15, 2009

Rotten
2/4

Fresh
82%

Avatar (2009)

" With Avatar, a cinematic revolution doesn't begin so much as proceed into its next phase." — Slant Magazine

Posted Dec 14, 2009

Fresh
A-

Fresh
95%

Revanche (2009)

" An unbearably taut, slow-simmering noir transposed to the vast countryside and its patient, drawn-out rhythms." — Lessons of Darkness

Posted Dec 14, 2009

Rotten
C

Fresh
83%

A Single Man (2009)

" Requires more than incessant slow-motion and escalating orchestral music to pass as serious drama." — Lessons of Darkness

Posted Dec 14, 2009

Rotten
1/5

Rotten
11%

Hannah Free (2009)

" Gray-haired Gless grouches with embarrassing abandon while chatting with the young ghost of her soulmate and befriending a mysterious girl (Jackson)." — Time Out New York

Posted Dec 9, 2009

Fresh
B+

Fresh
87%

The Sun (2005)

" Finds beauty, madness and outright bizarreness in the sight of a lost, slightly freakish man attempting to understand his altering reality." — Lessons of Darkness

Posted Dec 7, 2009

Rotten
2/4

Fresh
77%

Invictus (2009)

" Clint Eastwood's films are often termed "classical," a term that, with regard to Invictus, also suggests something close to stale." — Slant Magazine

Posted Dec 6, 2009

Rotten
2/4

Rotten
33%

The Slammin' Salmon (2009)

" The film isn't any uglier than its antecedents, but it is more lethargic." — Slant Magazine

Posted Dec 6, 2009

Rotten
D

Rotten
48%

Everybody's Fine (2009)

" Begins as merely intolerable and ends up borderline-reprehensible." — Lessons of Darkness

Posted Dec 4, 2009

Fresh
B+

N/A

Lake Tahoe (2008)

" Eimbcke's Jarmusch-ian comedy is laced with something stronger." — Lessons of Darkness

Posted Dec 4, 2009

Fresh
B-

Fresh
69%

Loren Cass (2009)

" An oppressive sense of brutality, loneliness and ennui remains visceral." — Lessons of Darkness

Posted Dec 4, 2009

Rotten
C+

Fresh
90%

Up in the Air (2009)

" Pleasant enough in the moment but maintains considerable distance from actually plumbing the raw emotions of its central subject." — Lessons of Darkness

Posted Dec 2, 2009

Rotten
2/5

Fresh
70%

The Last Station (2009)

" Michael Hoffman’s biopic of Leo Tolstoy’s final year filters its historical drama through a turgid coming-of-age experience." — Time Out New York

Posted Dec 2, 2009

Rotten
2/4

Rotten
46%

Until the Light Takes Us (2009)

" It not only crucially fails to address the cultural forces that might have spawned the country's prime musical export but it also neglects to include more than cursory snippets of the tunes themselves." — Slant Magazine

Posted Nov 30, 2009

Rotten
2/4

Fresh
85%

The Princess and the Frog (2009)

" It's the socio-cultural suggestions of this storytelling choice that's ultimately most troublesome." — Slant Magazine

Posted Nov 25, 2009

Rotten
2/5

Rotten
23%

Planet 51 (2009)

" It’s just an excuse for classic-cinema shout-outs and roller-coaster-like commotion." — Time Out New York

Posted Nov 25, 2009

Rotten
.5/4

Rotten
6%

Old Dogs (2009)

" So wretched that it should be unceremoniously put down." — Slant Magazine

Posted Nov 24, 2009

Fresh
B+

Fresh
76%

The Road (2009)

" A cinematic adaptation at once faithful and superior to its source material." — Lessons of Darkness

Posted Nov 20, 2009

Fresh
B

Fresh
85%

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009)

" May not result in a coherent whole but nonetheless delivers bursts of random, inspired madness." — Lessons of Darkness

Posted Nov 16, 2009

Rotten
1.5/4

Rotten
25%

Staten Island (2009)

" Staten Island has the stench of meat left on the counter for too long." — Slant Magazine

Posted Nov 15, 2009

Rotten
2.5/4

Fresh
89%

Red Cliff (2009)

" The film's shortcomings have less to do with Woo's orchestration of his ambitious tale and more to do with the Frankenstein hatchet job enacted against it." — Slant Magazine

Posted Nov 15, 2009

Rotten
1/4

Rotten
57%

Fix (2008)

" Ruspoli's scenic cross-section L.A. travelogue conveys a strong sense of milieu even as his wannabe-Strung aesthetics reveal the project's underlying style-over-substance concerns." — Slant Magazine

Posted Nov 15, 2009

Rotten
D

Rotten
39%

2012 (2009)

" The defining entrant in, and the nadir of, the disaster porn genre." — Lessons of Darkness

Posted Nov 12, 2009

Fresh
B+

Fresh
87%

A Serious Man (2009)

" Isn't drawn in one-to-one cause-effect lines, its obliqueness lending suspense and interpretative depth to the Job-like suffering of Larry." — Lessons of Darkness

Posted Nov 12, 2009

Rotten
C+

Fresh
86%

The White Ribbon (2009)

" Another of the Funny Games auteur's unpersuasively rigid portraits of man's venality." — Lessons of Darkness

Posted Nov 12, 2009

Fresh
3/4

Fresh
93%

Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)

" Anderson prizes the funny over the profound to an extent that keeps the proceedings a tad too light and jovial to register as anything more than a lightweight aside to his more acute, earnest work." — Slant Magazine

Posted Nov 9, 2009

Rotten
C

Fresh
82%

Paranormal Activity (2009)

" The same old thing dressed up in very slightly different clothes." — Lessons of Darkness

Posted Nov 9, 2009

Fresh
B+

Fresh
91%

The Messenger (2009)

" Moverman's scripting is subdued and emotionally authentic." — Lessons of Darkness

Posted Nov 9, 2009

Rotten
2/4

Fresh
60%

Pirate Radio (2009)

" Writer-director Richard Curtis is about as rock n' roll as the average great-grandmother, so it's no surprise that Pirate Radio, his ode to the irrepressible spirit of '60s classic rock, has all the electricity of a knitted sweater." — Slant Magazine

Posted Nov 8, 2009

Rotten
C+

Fresh
88%

Adventureland (2009)

" Content to occupy that middle ground where insights are authentic but far from revelatory and comedy is more amiable than riotous." — Lessons of Darkness

Posted Nov 6, 2009

Fresh
3/4

Rotten
44%

The Box (2009)

" Though his narrative's morality-play suspense and Bernard Herrmann-esque score recall Hitchcock, Kelly seems to have selected the '70s so that he can fully channel early-years Steven Spielberg." — Slant Magazine

Posted Nov 5, 2009

Rotten
2/4

Rotten
55%

Disney's A Christmas Carol (2009)

" A clear step in the right direction for Zemeckis and his pet techno-project, the film nonetheless ultimately sabotages itself by prizing the hectic over the heartfelt." — Slant Magazine

Posted Nov 3, 2009

Rotten
.5/4

Rotten
27%

Splinterheads (2009)

" Despite positioning itself as a Napoleon Dynamite-style comedy about a spazzy social retard, Splinterheads seems to have misplaced most of its jokes." — Slant Magazine

Posted Nov 1, 2009

Rotten
2/4

Fresh
81%

Collapse (2009)

" Smith's subject Michael Ruppert never registers as much more than an eloquent but largely untrustworthy quack." — Slant Magazine

Posted Nov 1, 2009

Rotten
C

Fresh
95%

An Education (2009)

" A teen-targeted public service announcement." — Lessons of Darkness

Posted Oct 28, 2009
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