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Critics / Nick Davis / Best
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NICK DAVIS

Agrees with the Tomatometer 65% of the time.

Biography: Assistant Professor of English and Gender Studies at Northwestern University
Favorites: The Piano, Morvern Callar, Safe, When Harry Met Sally..., Persona, Pinocchio ('40), Singin' in the Rain, The Scarlet Empress, Laura, Meshes of the Afternoon, Aliens, Crash, Harlan County U.S.A., The Thin Red Line, Citizen Kane, Velvet Goldmine, Dancer in the Dark

Publications: Nick's Flick Picks

Critics' Group: Cinemarati

Total Reviews: 464
Total QuickRatings: 184

Location: Chicago, IL

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Fresh
67%

Synecdoche, New York (2008)

" Brazen and witty and starkly serious...Synecdoche stands in relation to Kaufman's best previous screenplays in the same way that David Lynch's INLAND EMPIRE stood in relation to Mulholland Drive."

Posted Nov 11, 2008

Fresh
A

Fresh
91%

The Corporation (2004)

" It's the Lord of the Rings of modern documentaries: epic, vivid, wise, well-paced, expansive%u2014the kind of movie that makes you want to do more with your life."

Posted Aug 6, 2006

Fresh
A

Fresh
97%

Maria Full of Grace (2004)

" From the standpoints of technique, interpretation, cultural sensitivity, and narrative integrity, Maria Full of Grace is an astute and unforgettable work."

Posted Oct 17, 2004

Fresh
A

Fresh
93%

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

" Character arcs leap, plunge, spiral, and tie themselves into knots, yet somehow they still emerge as definable arcs, with real emotional punch... A rare and precious thing."

Posted Apr 16, 2004

Fresh
A

Fresh
82%

Monster (2003)

" A stunning and deceptively sophisticated picture...squarely in the tradition of Brecht. Monster deserves to keep winning awards, but the film is the real treasure."

Posted Jan 27, 2004

Fresh
A

Fresh
88%

Russian Ark (2002)

" The #1 Movie of 2002: 'A precise philosophy and poetics of national history are encoded in the movie's being shaped precisely this way.'"

Posted Apr 25, 2003

Fresh
A

Fresh
77%

The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys (2002)

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Posted Jan 10, 2003

Fresh
A

Fresh
74%

Secretary (2002)

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Posted Jan 10, 2003

Fresh
A

Fresh
91%

Far From Heaven (2002)

" Smartly devastating."

Posted Jan 10, 2003

Fresh
A

Fresh
92%

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)

" That such a bold, inventive artist has embraced the challenge of telling Frodo's story is cause for celebration."

Posted Jan 10, 2003

Fresh
A

Rotten
45%

The Cell (2000)

" An amazing, courageous, and thoroughly dark visualization of what the inside of a deeply troubled mind might look like."

Posted Jan 10, 2003

Fresh
A

Fresh
78%

Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

" The #1 Movie of 1999: 'A coherent summary of Kubrick's longtime themes and a worthy capstone to his long, distinguished career.'"

Posted Jan 10, 2003

Fresh
A

Fresh
81%

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999)

" An act of pure, unadulterated creativity that boasts its narrative gambles and poetic whimsy as badges of honor... One of the most improbably gorgeous films of the year."

Posted Jan 10, 2003

Fresh
A

Fresh
97%

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (1999)

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Posted Jan 10, 2003

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A

Fresh
84%

Tumbleweeds (1999)

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Posted Jan 10, 2003

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A

Fresh
68%

Dancer in the Dark (1999)

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Posted Jan 10, 2003

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A

Fresh
78%

The Thin Red Line (1998)

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Posted Jan 10, 2003

Fresh
A

Rotten
55%

Velvet Goldmine (1998)

" Not a superficial music video but a smart and compassionate dissection of superficiality, and of the alternating joys and disillusionments experienced by its audience."

Posted Jan 10, 2003

Fresh
A

Fresh
94%

Boogie Nights (1997)

" Boogie Nights never exactly recovers the tightness of its first hour, but it certainly doesn't descend into permanent disorganization as some critics have charged."

Posted Mar 19, 2003

Fresh
A

Fresh
82%

Titanic (1997)

" Yes, Jack Dawson and Rose DeWitt Bukater are flimsyish characters, but DiCaprio and Winslet still have the formidable challenge as actors to gauge the levels of their performances against the galvanizing visual and technotronic aspects of the film."

Posted Jan 10, 2003

Fresh
A

Fresh
81%

Taste of Cherry (1997)

" The #1 U.S. release of 1998: 'A sublime and patient film...[Kiarostami] handles his profound material flawlessly.'"

Posted Jan 10, 2003

Fresh
A

Fresh
99%

L.A. Confidential (1997)

" A wondrous troika of actors lends L.A. Confidential its slippery but distinctive erotic poignancy."

Posted Jan 10, 2003

Fresh
A

Fresh
65%

Crash (1996)

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Posted Jan 10, 2003

Fresh
A

Fresh
88%

The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom (1993)

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Posted Jan 10, 2003

Fresh
A

Fresh
90%

Howards End (1992)

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Posted Jan 10, 2003

Fresh
A

Fresh
98%

Boyz N the Hood (1991)

" Singleton strips his art of almost all ambiguity in the service of thematic and emotional and political transparency.... A tragic purgation of pity, anger, and fear."

Posted Oct 26, 2006

Fresh
A+

Fresh
93%

Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)

" Hannah is a masterpiece, a triumph of aesthetic balances like nothing the writer-director achieved previously or since, and a pinnacle of American moviemaking."

Posted Aug 17, 2003

Fresh
A

Fresh
91%

Days of Heaven (1978)

" Terrence Malick creates a film that has all the rich density of a literary experience but is made irrefutably cinematic in its lavish, uncompromised visual detail."

Posted Jan 10, 2003

Fresh
A

Fresh
94%

Autumn Sonata (1978)

" [It] absolutely overwhelms our senses and becomes for 92 minutes the only reality we can know."

Posted Jan 10, 2003

Fresh
A

Fresh
87%

Fox and His Friends (1975)

" An ace snapshot from 27 years ago that still feels contemporary and pressing."

Posted Jan 10, 2003

Fresh
A

Fresh
82%

The Travelling Players (1974)

" I was aglow after The Travelling Players, which honestly strikes me, in all its alienation and opacity, as a thrilling and important and good motion picture."

Posted Jun 20, 2004

Fresh
A

Fresh
88%

The Devils (1971)

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Posted Jan 10, 2003

Fresh
A

Fresh
71%

Shame (1968)

" Shame draws the rutted map of war's psychology, in bold and grievous strokes recognizable to any audience, and liable to frighten and humble them all."

Posted Aug 6, 2006

Fresh
A

Fresh
100%

The Third Man (1949)

" If The Third Man is a tragedy, it isn't just the tragedy of a hobbled city, scribbled with ruins and parsed into zones of occupation that can't communicate and don't cooperate."

Posted Sep 13, 2008

Fresh
A

Fresh
100%

Holiday (1938)

" Spellbinding without being a mystery, ravishing without being ornate, heartachy despite being a lovely comedy, and full of surprise gestures and unexpected flights of feeling."

Posted Dec 15, 2003

Fresh
A+

Fresh
100%

Modern Times (1936)

" Finds the comedy in the dashing of hopes, though it has both the verve to be funny for funny’s sake when it feels the urge and the fortitude not to tidy up every dark stroke."

Posted Aug 28, 2004

Fresh
A

Fresh
100%

L'Atalante (1934)

" A paean to evanescence and, however paradoxically, an enduring embodiment of the same concept: a wispish film from a short-lived director that has nonetheless been dreamed and re-dreamed, never the same way twice, for almost 70 years."

Posted Jan 10, 2003

Fresh
A+

Fresh
97%

The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)

" Raises so many questions about power, gender, law, and self-determination that any viewer, regardless of persuasion, can invest a great deal in what happens to Joan."

Posted Jan 10, 2003

Fresh
A

N/A

The Wind (1928)

" If you are willing to be adventurous in your search for a quick-moving and discomfiting chiller, The Wind can hardly be a better selection."

Posted Jan 10, 2003

Fresh
A-

Fresh
72%

Julia (2008)

" The film has the focused derangement of a suicide bomber...but I for one am elated to see such brazenness, such mystery, and such crazy, highwire ambition back in the movie theater."

Posted Oct 19, 2008

Fresh
A-

Fresh
65%

The Weeping Meadow (2004)

" A serious historical epic that boldly remanages the usual priorities of that form, and a fractured family saga that, at least in my experience, accumulates power as it continues."

Posted Dec 15, 2005

Fresh
A-

Fresh
91%

Million Dollar Baby (2004)

" M$B sometimes recalls a silent movie where the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune play out in a concentrated circle of light that goes opaque around the edges."

Posted Mar 1, 2005

Fresh
A-

Fresh
94%

Before Sunset (2004)

" Of course I liked it a lot, I almost loved it. I mean, I often felt like I loved it, but I'm not sure I really did or I'm not sure why. It's, like, a hard movie to argue with."

Posted Jan 18, 2005

Fresh
A-

Fresh
95%

Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... And Spring (2004)

" The Bressonian mixture of intense labor, bodily devotion, and the palpable breath of spirituality across the frames is a peak few films seek to scale, and even fewer attain."

Posted Aug 31, 2004

Fresh
A-

Fresh
76%

Dawn of the Dead (2004)

" Dawn of the Dead feels well-plotted, well-designed, and well-executed, the best American movie from Spring 2004 short of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind."

Posted Jul 27, 2004

Fresh
A-

Fresh
81%

The Bourne Supremacy (2004)

" The Bourne Supremacy is an exceptional thriller that is a sequel to a good one... Power runs through every frame, making the smallness of the world itself seem scary."

Posted Jul 24, 2004

Fresh
A-

Fresh
96%

Osama (2003)

" Osama manages to surprise you with its story, even though we have no right to be surprised....Already ranks among the best films of the year."

Posted Jul 1, 2004

Fresh
A-

Fresh
97%

Spirited Away (2002)

" Spirited Away exalts the young girl Chihiro's uncanny experiences into an adventure that is as thrillingly ambiguous as it is vividly soundtracked and illustrated."

Posted Aug 25, 2009

Fresh
A-

Fresh
73%

The Piano Teacher (2002)

" A film of Artaudian cruelty, and a boundary-breaker in the cinema's exploration of its own erotic and artisanal id."

Posted Jul 28, 2006

Fresh
A-

Fresh
78%

25th Hour (2002)

" The affective claims of the film are enormous, even in its occasional missteps or overreachings."

Posted Mar 19, 2003
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Modern TimesOffsite

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Maria Full of GraceOffsite

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Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... And...Offsite

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Dark VictoryOffsite

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The Belly of An ArchitectOffsite

B-

Going Upriver: The Long War of John...Offsite

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The Manchurian CandidateOffsite

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RayOffsite

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Coffee and CigarettesOffsite

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A Home at the End of the WorldOffsite

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Garden StateOffsite

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AlexanderOffsite

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The Human StainOffsite

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Synecdoche, New YorkOffsite

A

The Third ManOffsite

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Boyz N the HoodOffsite

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ShameOffsite

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The CorporationOffsite

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Maria Full of GraceOffsite

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Modern TimesOffsite

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The Travelling PlayersOffsite

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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless MindOffsite

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MonsterOffsite

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Alpha DogOffsite

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ApocalyptoOffsite

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The Hills Have EyesOffsite

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Same Time, Next YearOffsite

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The Human StainOffsite

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The TerminalOffsite

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TadpoleOffsite

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The MatrixOffsite

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