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Amy Nicholson

Agrees with the Tomatometer 64% of the time.

Publications:: Badass Digest , Boxoffice Magazine , I.E. Weekly , L.A. Weekly , Los Angeles CityBeat , Los Angeles Times , Movieline
Critics' Group:: Los Angeles Film Critics Association

Total Reviews:: 577

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
3/5	57%	Kiss Of The Damned (2013)	" The confident, female-driven sensuality of "Kiss of the Damned" anchors this handsome nonsense." — Los Angeles Times Posted May 3, 2013
1.5/5	0%	Generation Um... (2013)	" Neither the film, nor the film within the film, hold our attention. Bummer, Keanu." — Los Angeles Times Posted May 3, 2013
4/5	54%	Here and There (2013)	" Esparza's cast of unknowns is so fresh and raw that the drama could be mistaken for a documentary if the camera work weren't so controlled ..." — Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 26, 2013
3.5/5	45%	Filly Brown (2013)	" Almost despite our will, the cast keeps us invested in Filly's furious resurrection." — Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 18, 2013
1/5	——	Three Days (Three Days of Hamlet) ()	" The result is high school English crossed with "Waiting for Guffman," though the humor is largely accidental." — Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 18, 2013
2.5/5	4%	Scary Movie 5 (2013)	" For the art-house crowd, who may, I suppose, stumble drunk into the wrong theater after too much Chardonnay, there are nods to Black Swan and 127 Hours." — Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 13, 2013
3/5	68%	Disconnect (2013)	" What works is the uncomfortable intimacy of peering over the shoulders of, say, Patton when she watches YouTube videos of her dead son, and the shudder of recognition that our hard drives are our external consciences." — Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 11, 2013
2/5	56%	Hunky Dory (2013)	" Golden-hued, feel-good treacle, the sort that the U.K. has tried to export ever since Billy Elliot." — Los Angeles Times Posted Mar 22, 2013
2.5/5	15%	Dorfman in Love (2013)	" Inoffensive to everyone besides the homeless living on L.A.'s skid row, whom Dorfman shies away from like they're soul-sucking dybbuks" — Los Angeles Times Posted Mar 22, 2013
3/5	65%	Starbuck (2013)	" As amiable art-house fluff, it's a passable way to kill time before the Vince Vaughn American remake later this year." — Los Angeles Times Posted Mar 21, 2013
3.5/5	26%	21 And Over (2013)	" 21 & Over powers along with a winning Abercrombie bonhomie, IE naked guys and racism. Hilarious racism." — Badass Digest Posted Mar 1, 2013
3/5	58%	Snitch (2013)	" Yes, this is a film where The Rock Wikipedias "drug cartels." But somehow it works. " — Badass Digest Posted Feb 22, 2013
2/5	13%	Safe Haven (2013)	" Their love story has a mellow ease -- as neither of them has much of a personality, we're just watching two swell people decide to bone" — Badass Digest Posted Feb 15, 2013
6/10	59%	The Last Stand (2013)	" Just bold enough, brutal enough, and dumb enough to feel like a return to form." — Movieline Posted Jan 19, 2013
7/10	65%	Mama (2013)	" Is this Chastain's reputation-besmirching Norbit? Pshaw - for my money, it's her best performance yet." — Movieline Posted Jan 19, 2013
6.5/10	61%	Jack Reacher (2012)	" It's the Tom Cruise paradox; he's a great actor who's stopped acting. He can't vanish into a role, but then he doesn't have to." — Movieline Posted Dec 19, 2012
1.5/5	52%	This is 40 (2012)	" Apatow gives us a couple who know less about each other than I do about my middle school friends on Facebook" — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Dec 3, 2012
4/5	48%	The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 (2012)	" Every frame of silent, lip-biting, pent-up tension in the series has been holding its breath for this -- a 600-minute soap opera suddenly exploding into a Grindhouse slasher." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Nov 13, 2012
2/5	26%	Fun Size (2012)	" Boobs. Boobs. Boobs. Boobs. Boobs. If your tween can handle that, they can handle Nickelodeon's naughtiest kids' movie" — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Oct 25, 2012
3/5	39%	Here Comes the Boom (2012)	" 'Rocky' for fifth graders, with enough pro-school propaganda to make parents think it's worth the price of popcorn" — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Oct 11, 2012
3.5/5	44%	The Paperboy (2012)	" Daniels is a nutcase and almost definitely a perv. But he's gifted at getting actors to drop their guards and commit to nonsense. " — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Oct 3, 2012
2.5/5	21%	Taken 2 (2012)	" See Neeson kill -- kill, Neeson kill!" — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Oct 3, 2012
3/5	32%	Won't Back Down (2012)	" It's rousing -- if not thrilling -- stuff, a multivitamin for a multiplex crowd." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Sep 26, 2012
4.5/5	81%	Pitch Perfect (2012)	" Pitch Perfect proves no one is too cool for the perfect pop song." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Sep 25, 2012
6/10	59%	10 Years (2012)	" It's too bad 10 Years isn't, you know, funny." — Movieline Posted Sep 14, 2012
6/10	87%	Arbitrage (2012)	" Gere does his best to give Arbitrage an agitated energy, but Jarecki's fatalism works against the film." — Movieline Posted Sep 13, 2012
4.5/5	99%	Finding Nemo 3D (2012)	" When the blunt head of Bruce the shark slams into the screen like a hammer, everyone -- adults included -- gasps" — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Sep 12, 2012
5/5	93%	Looper (2012)	" The coolest, most-confident sci-fi flick since 2006's 'Children of Men.'" — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Sep 6, 2012
4/5	65%	The Expendables 2 (2012)	" The screen practically stinks of Old Spice and sweat" — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Aug 15, 2012
3.5/5	42%	Step Up 4: Miami Heat (2012)	" Busby Berkeley would have approved of the hijinks director Scott Speer gets up to with his 3D cameras" — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Jul 26, 2012
3.5/5	87%	The Dark Knight Rises (2012)	" A fine film in a strong summer, but it lacks the spark that made its immediate predecessor a masterpiece." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Jul 16, 2012
4/5	73%	The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)	" A paint-by-numbers pleasure: Boy meets girl, boy meets spider, spider meets world. " — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Jun 27, 2012
3/5	93%	Marvel's The Avengers (2012)	" Apparently, bootleg copies of Transformers 3 made it to Asgard." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Apr 20, 2012
3.5/5	44%	Casa de mi padre (2012)	" Will Ferrell tiene cojones grandes." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Mar 16, 2012
2/5	77%	War Horse (2011)	" But though War Horse is achingly sentimental, the people who will cry the most are the Washington lawmakers who just legalized selling horse meat in America ten days before War Horse's release. Bad timing, dudes." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Dec 16, 2011
2/5	3%	Jack and Jill (2011)	" If Pacino-on-Sandler action is your trailer's selling point, the movie better be brave enough to have Pacino bend him over. Heck, it's already doing the same to us." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Nov 10, 2011
4/5	47%	Anonymous (2011)	" Why is Emmerich, destroyer of worlds, elbowing his way into the conversation about Shakespearean authorship? Because the debate is explosive -- and he can't resist packing on more dynamite " — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Sep 16, 2011
3/5	17%	I Don't Know How She Does It (2011)	" Empathy rescues it from the brink of disaster porn -- it's so good-hearted and optimistic that stressed-out moms will feel the flick speaks directly to them, which it does." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Sep 13, 2011
B+	25%	The Change-Up (2011)	" If the trailer for The Change-Up looks bad -- and it does -- it's because Universal saved all the jokes for the actual movie." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Aug 2, 2011
c+	71%	Friends With Benefits (2011)	" Kunis and Timberlake have the rapid-fire patter of Hepburn and Tracy, if Hepburn and Tracy had conversations about Olympic snowboarder Shaun White's pubic hair." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Jul 21, 2011
C	20%	Beastly (2011)	" Teens convinced that a pimple will kill their social life will find Beastly bracingly honest. It's the cynicism, not the phoned-in uplift, that works in this JV Grand Guignol." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Mar 4, 2011
C	45%	Drive Angry (2011)	" Cage passes the torch to the next generation of scene-chewing actors as he's graciously out-Caged by both Burke and shark-eyed William Fichtner as The Accountant" — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Feb 26, 2011
C	37%	I Am (2011)	" Fodder for stoners, college sophomores and the sentimental, but you have to respect Shadyac for trying - and if his reward isn't found at the box office, I don't think he'll mind." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Feb 18, 2011
3.5/5	56%	Unknown (2011)	" Ich bin bash Berliner." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Feb 17, 2011
C+	30%	Sanctum (2011)	" In scuba gear, no one can hear you scream" — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Feb 2, 2011
B-	49%	No Strings Attached (2011)	" The shaggy fringes of the flick get most of the laughs -- for one, it's absurdly obsessed with '90s hip-hop" — I.E. Weekly Posted Jan 21, 2011
C-	24%	The Dilemma (2011)	" Ends with 20 minutes of apologies, a round robin of regret that downshifts the film's sputtering energy into park." — I.E. Weekly Posted Jan 16, 2011
B	44%	The Green Hornet (2011)	" Can a genius and an average Joe pair up and put egos aside to serve mindless adventure? Gondry and Rogen have. " — I.E. Weekly Posted Jan 16, 2011
c	76%	Summer Wars (Sama Wozu) (2010)	" The story's been done better (and balder) in Die Hard With A Vengeance" — I.E. Weekly Posted Jan 16, 2011

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