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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: 463
Total QuickRatings: 185

Location: Chicago, IL

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Rotten F	Rotten 56%	Alpha Dog (2007)	" *As it happens, not all dogs to to heaven. Some go straight to hell, and Alpha Dog* gets there faster and stays there longer than most.**" Posted Mar 4, 2007
Rotten F	Fresh 64%	Apocalypto (2006)	" A web of death-drives, false devotions, lofty pretenses, auto-plagiarisms, sound but inarticulate craftsmanship, and lowest-common-denominator provisions of trauma as entertainment." Posted Dec 5, 2006
Rotten F	Rotten 49%	The Hills Have Eyes (2006)	" *These Hills* might have eyes, but they could have used some brains, or at least a steadier hand and a less contemptible sensibility to guide the grisly proceedings.**" Posted Aug 13, 2006
Rotten F	Fresh 61%	The Terminal (2004)	" *What will this studio think of next? A remake of The Red Balloon* set in Tikrit? How about Sunday in the Park with George relocated to Guant�namo?**" Posted Jul 18, 2004
Rotten F	Rotten 41%	The Human Stain (2003)	" A tricky adaptation of an unlikely novel that nevertheless goes almost as wrong as possible...prey to the most amateur varieties of structural and tonal errors." Posted Aug 28, 2004
Rotten F	Fresh 78%	Tadpole (2002)	" *The worst movie of 2002: 'Any film with such a formulaic foundation...faces the burden of succeeding in spite of it, yet Tadpole* just dumbly offers it back up to us.'**" Posted Mar 19, 2003
Rotten F	Rotten 13%	Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 (2000)	Click here to read article Posted Jan 10, 2003
Rotten F	Fresh 86%	The Matrix (1999)	" The least humane, least responsible, least pardonable movie I have ever seen." Posted Jan 10, 2003
Rotten F	Rotten 43%	The Legend of Bagger Vance (1999)	" *Sit this one out. Please.*" Posted Jan 10, 2003
Rotten F	Rotten 45%	Runaway Bride (1999)	Click here to read article Posted Jan 10, 2003
Rotten F	Fresh 63%	Antonia's Line (1995)	Click here to read article Posted Jan 10, 2003
Rotten F	N/A	Same Time, Next Year (1978)	" Satisfied neither to be honestly frivolous or sincerely ambitious, Same Time, Next Year winds up giving a bad name both to comedy and to drama." Posted Mar 3, 2006
Rotten D-	Fresh 68%	Hollywoodland (2006)	" Never makes a case that Reeves' death is worth probing, or even mourning; as on Superman, his humanity is utterly stifled by lousy production values and unrewarding stunts." Posted Oct 14, 2006
Rotten D-	Rotten 24%	Lady in the Water (2006)	" Breaks new ground in Shyamalan's cinema of looniness....The present of the movie is never interesting; meanwhile, its past is never illuminated and its future never arrives." Posted Jul 28, 2006
Rotten D-	Rotten 16%	Alexander (2004)	" You know the movie is bound to be swill: imperialist daydreams indigestibly stewed together with limp Oedipal anxiety and unpersuasive pacifist lip service." Posted Dec 5, 2004
Rotten D-	Rotten 56%	The Gift (2001)	" Stilted, obvious, and cruel... No longer an absurdist of gore, Raimi is now a reveler in it." Posted Jan 10, 2003
Rotten D-	Fresh 78%	The Green Mile (1999)	" A deeply racist movie, though clearly none of the filmmakers thinks so... By the picture's end, we are asked to grasp electrocution as in some way an act of benevolence." Posted Jan 10, 2003
Rotten D	N/A	Lovely, Still (2009)	" Lovely, Still made me feel sorry for its venerable stars, despite my fondness for their legacies and my gratitude for their committed best efforts through most of the film." Posted Oct 11, 2009
Rotten D	Fresh 82%	Tropic Thunder (2008)	" Tropic Thunder, full of punchlines about Milli Vanilli and Being There, stitches the tired cultural references of one generation to the utterly debased expectations of their heirs." Posted Sep 15, 2008
Rotten D	Rotten 55%	Vacancy (2007)	" *Trite and opportunistic in its feints at intellectual weight... Best, in fact, to mine from the crumbly ore of Vacancy* a drinking game plated in gold.**" Posted May 2, 2007
Rotten D	Fresh 86%	Garden State (2004)	" It's dispiriting to see such a pandering and clunkily written picture get so puffed up with a belief in its own integrity; the movie has a Shins CD where its heart should be." Posted Oct 22, 2004
Rotten D	Rotten 55%	Ladykillers (2004)	" The Ladykillers just feels indulgent, without imparting any notion of whom it might be indulging. Everyone in it looks as though they're punching a timecard." Posted Apr 15, 2004
Rotten D	Rotten 42%	Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003)	" Diagnosis: D.O.A....Novelty value: significantly diminished. Stunt sequences: total overkill. Directorial style: antic incoherence." Posted Jul 19, 2003
Rotten D	Fresh 73%	The Matrix Reloaded (2003)	" A rabble-rousing aestheticization of violence and potential violence...Even I don�t think the Wachowskis are Nazis, but I do think they might be Leni Riefenstahls." Posted Jun 20, 2003
Rotten D	Fresh 82%	Road to Perdition (2002)	" Road to Perdition is so jumbled and poseurish that you're less likely to wonder, 'How did the creators of American Beauty sink to this?' than to venture, 'Maybe American Beauty couldn't have been all that good, either.'" Posted Jan 10, 2003
Rotten D	Fresh 77%	Panic Room (2002)	Click here to read article Posted Jan 10, 2003
Rotten D	Rotten 3%	Fear Dot Com (2002)	" In this case, a viewer's apathy to images of suffering and degradation are not a pointed comment on contemporary desensitization to violence -- it's just the proper response to a really crappy movie." Posted Jan 10, 2003
Rotten D	Rotten 41%	The Four Feathers (2002)	Click here to read article Posted Jan 10, 2003
Rotten D	Rotten 44%	Planet of the Apes (2001)	Click here to read article Posted Jan 10, 2003
Rotten D	Rotten 44%	Get Over It (2001)	" There's something almost perverse about a show that only comes alive as the curtain rises and falls..." Posted Jan 10, 2003
Rotten D	Rotten 55%	Pitch Black (2000)	" Pitch Black is action science-fiction that barely qualifies as action and not at all as either science or fiction." Posted Jan 10, 2003
Rotten D	Fresh 70%	Tea With Mussolini (1999)	" Art and suffocating tastefulness are taken as such inherent goods in [this film] that they utterly overwhelm the real people whom the film pretends to showcase." Posted Mar 19, 2003
Rotten D	Fresh 64%	Playing By Heart (1998)	" *The dozen or so lead characters of Playing By Heart* fear silence the way Biblical people feared locusts.**" Posted Mar 19, 2003
Rotten D	Fresh 83%	There's Something About Mary (1998)	" [The filmmakers], out of some hyperactive reflex, grab at any joke they can get, like toddlers trying desperately to spear fish in a creek--a shallow creek." Posted Jan 10, 2003
Rotten D	Rotten 15%	The Avengers (1998)	Click here to read article Posted Jan 10, 2003
Rotten D	Fresh 67%	Dancing at Lughnasa (1998)	Click here to read article Posted Jan 10, 2003
Rotten D	Rotten 56%	The Hi-Lo Country (1998)	Click here to read article Posted Jan 10, 2003
Rotten D	Fresh 64%	Wild Things (1998)	" One of those thankfully rare pictures that makes every man and woman it portrays seem hollow and insubstantial." Posted Jan 10, 2003
Rotten D	Rotten 11%	Hush (1998)	" *Given how terrible Hush* is, it should be more fun to watch.**" Posted Jan 10, 2003
Rotten D	Rotten 6%	Body of Evidence (1993)	" Be thankful that its star, a singer, dancer, mother, and woman of the world, has plenty of day jobs to go back to." Posted Jan 10, 2003
Rotten D	Rotten 59%	Basic Instinct (1992)	" If it weren't so grotesque and repugnant, the consistent misogyny of Joe Eszterhas' movie scripts would almost be laughable." Posted Jan 10, 2003
Rotten D	Rotten 29%	Reptilicus (1962)	Click here to read article Posted Jan 10, 2003
Rotten D	Rotten 50%	The Fugitive Kind (1960)	" *An almost unbelievably sluggish and uninflected adaptation of Tennessee Williams' searing Orpheus Descending.*" Posted Mar 19, 2003
Rotten D	N/A	Coquette (1929)	" *I guess 1929 audiences knew a stinker when they saw one coming. There is very little to criticize in Coquette, because there is so little in it, period.*" Posted Jan 23, 2004

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