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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:: 584

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
F	14%	The Love Guru (2008)	" Mike Myers' catastrophe is a paramount test of enlightenment. Smiling beatifically during each painfully unfunny gag demands more inner-strength than jogging through lava." — I.E. Weekly Posted Jun 19, 2008
F	0%	Strange Wilderness (2008)	" At least Gaulke and Wolf didn't have to go far to kill their reputation: During the jungle piranha attack scene, a mallard floats by in the background." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Feb 5, 2008
F	44%	Bella (Beauty) (2006)	" Corn smothered in queso, this sentimental hokum sticks in your throat." — I.E. Weekly Posted Feb 3, 2008
D-	11%	An American Carol (2008)	" As entertainment, An American Carol ranks below YouTube clips of Sarah Palin." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Oct 6, 2008
D-	38%	Savage Grace (2007)	" While the Baekelands would be flattered to rank with Clytemnestra and Oedipus, they and the film are as shallow as martinis" — I.E. Weekly Posted Jun 13, 2008
D-	30%	A Previous Engagement (2008)	" There are worse movies, but most restrain themselves to only one scene of Daniel Stern learning to salsa." — I.E. Weekly Posted May 15, 2008
D-	41%	27 Dresses (2008)	" Another insult written and directed by women who deserve to be strung up by bridal veils" — I.E. Weekly Posted Jan 29, 2008
D	6%	The Last Airbender (2010)	" Call M. Night Shyamalan a Wood Bender -- this kiddie cast is as flat and stiff as particle board " — I.E. Weekly Posted Jul 2, 2010
D	74%	Greenberg (2010)	" True to this chauvinistic genre, Gerwig is a vacuum who lives to serve the house, the man and the mechanics of Baumbach's script." — I.E. Weekly Posted Mar 22, 2010
D	19%	Gentlemen Broncos (2009)	" Fun material buried under a gross residue -- not just the projectile vomiting or the snake diarrhea, but the 'shlick, shlick' sound as Benjamin gives an over-lotioned hand massage" — I.E. Weekly Posted Oct 30, 2009
D	11%	Couples Retreat (2009)	" The actresses are so wasted, they're even demoted to fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth billing under every one of the dudes. At least the guys aren't having fun either." — I.E. Weekly Posted Oct 14, 2009
D	6%	All About Steve (2009)	" Not just dumb, it's dopey, moronic, doltish, obtuse and thick." — I.E. Weekly Posted Sep 3, 2009
D	14%	I Love You Beth Cooper (2009)	" If watching this makes you long to be young again, you probably grew up in an Algerian prison." — I.E. Weekly Posted Jul 9, 2009
D	9%	My Life in Ruins (2009)	" Vardalos huffs that the culture that made her a millionaire is made of slackers, molesters and thieves." — I.E. Weekly Posted Jun 5, 2009
D	64%	The Girlfriend Experience (2009)	" The dullness works to Grey's favor as the 2008 AVN winner for Best Oral Sex Scene can't act a lick." — I.E. Weekly Posted May 21, 2009
D	51%	For Your Consideration (2006)	" The point is that Hollywood types are--gasp!--shallow. If that news shocks anyone, check your pulse, because you may have been in a coma for 80 years." — I.E. Weekly Posted May 15, 2009
D	25%	Bedtime Stories (2008)	" All director Adam Shankman can think of to do is encourage Adam Sandler to mug like a chimpanzee" — I.E. Weekly Posted Dec 25, 2008
D	32%	The X-Files: I Want to Believe (The X Files 2) (2008)	" The film's best scene is when Scully announces she'll perform a stem cell transplant that afternoon and immediately rushes to Google it." — I.E. Weekly Posted Jul 31, 2008
D	67%	Redbelt (2008)	" David Mamet must have gotten roundhouse kicked in the head to think there was a story worth telling in his latest macho faceoff." — I.E. Weekly Posted May 15, 2008
D	50%	Smart People (2008)	" More false than Ms. Hilton's "accidental" panty-flashings, Noam Murro's dull, meandering dramedy reduces love to a montage and mourning to Quaid's inability to ride shotgun" — Los Angeles CityBeat Posted Apr 11, 2008
D	48%	Run Fatboy Run (2007)	" Schwimmer's sliced cheese mediocrity gets him off the hook; not so for the usually inventive Pegg and Black and their arms race of bland jokes and cheap male nudity" — I.E. Weekly Posted Mar 31, 2008
D	36%	21 (2008)	" Like the Strip itself, it's all lights and music throbbing so hard you confuse yourself into thinking you're having fun." — I.E. Weekly Posted Mar 31, 2008
D	17%	Sleepwalking (2008)	" Zac Stanford's screenplay works only as a theorem proving Murphy's Law." — I.E. Weekly Posted Mar 15, 2008
D	72%	I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With (2006)	" The more James groans to an unsympathetic ear, "Why would they remake Marty--it's timeless?" we wonder why Garlin didn't take his own advice" — I.E. Weekly Posted Feb 22, 2008
D	64%	Things We Lost in the Fire (2007)	" Scheduled blowups and symbolic dreams and interminable tears until we all feel like we've learned a little something about loss: We want our two hours back." — I.E. Weekly Posted Feb 22, 2008
D	11%	Fool's Gold (2008)	" The physical spark between the two shaggy blondes that made How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days the perfect airplane movie is 20 fathoms under sea." — I.E. Weekly Posted Feb 11, 2008
D	78%	Desert Bayou (2007)	" Thematic schizophrenia...it agrees that the media stereotype blacks as uneducated thugs and rappers, while its own main characters are crack addicts, ex-cons, and Master P." — I.E. Weekly Posted Feb 3, 2008
1/5	——	3 Geezers! (2013)	" "3 Geezers" is painful: Simmons tags along doing his best Tim Allen impersonation, which is topped when Tim Allen himself shows up solely so the senior citizens can defecate in his bushes." — Los Angeles Times Posted May 22, 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
1/5	8%	Miss Conception (2008)	" Eric Styles and writer Camilla Leslie have made a punishingly unfunny trifle about sex, love and maternity in which both women and men are flatter than magazines--walking, talking issues of Lady's Home Journal and Maxim." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Jun 6, 2008
	12%	Broken (2007)	" Formulaic soap opera has the makings of camp but the heart of an after-school special." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted May 5, 2010
	60%	Golda's Balcony (2007)	" The brink of annihilation looks like a low-budget music video. " — Boxoffice Magazine Posted May 5, 2010
	37%	August Rush (2007)	" A music box trying to pass itself off as an orchestra. " — Boxoffice Magazine Posted May 5, 2010
	50%	Beyond the Call (2006)	" You walk away wishing the filmmaker had channeled the guts he showed in crossing dangerous borders with his subjects into asking them tough and insightful questions" — Boxoffice Magazine Posted May 5, 2010
	——	The Urn (2008)	" You think you've worn this family-friendly yarmulke before, but then [writer/director] Usen splices in so many plot threads, the whole thing unravels." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Mar 5, 2008
	3%	Witless Protection (2008)	" It's the audience that deserves Protection from this Witless Larry the Cable Guy vehicle." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Feb 25, 2008
	0%	Cover (2007)	" Approached as comedy, Cover is a riot." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Feb 22, 2008
	5%	The Hottie and the Nottie (2008)	" Johann Urb cruises up as a dream date doctor and his utter blandness nearly bests Hilton's. If the two of them conjoined, every interesting book or film or album ever created would implode." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Feb 8, 2008
	22%	Mad Money (2008)	" The latest vibrato performance of Diane Keaton's late career shame has her playing once-wealthy housewife Bridget Cardigan, whose twee name and dithering hysteria are equally insufferable." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Jan 24, 2008
	39%	The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: A VeggieTales Movie (2008)	" Is it a coincidence or an animator's inside joke that the veggies' innocent smiles of joy look exactly like Cartman's when he enters a room of Cheesy Poofs?" — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Jan 10, 2008
	16%	The Perfect Holiday (2007)	" If tickets to this yuletide dreck are hiding in your stocking, you'd be better off with a lump of coal." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Dec 14, 2007
	90%	Yiddish Theater: A Love Story (2006)	" Katzir's documentary is on the cusp of posing worthy questions about American assimilation and cultural evolution, but it'd rather appeal to guilt and sympathy for art that we never get to feel." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Nov 30, 2007
	28%	Fat Girls (2006)	" The film just keeps hammering away at the insight that conservatives are, like, totally twisted." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Nov 2, 2007
	72%	How to Cook Your Life (Wie man sein Leben kocht) (2007)	" Despite the film's repeated exhortations that humans need to be more humble about who is cooking whom, the broccoli continues to seem inert." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Oct 25, 2007
	60%	Little Secrets (2002)	" Wades again and again into the kind of ordinary territory befitting its muted if glossy made-for-TV look and its tinkling, whimsically modern piano score." — L.A. Weekly Posted Aug 22, 2002
D+	17%	Love Happens (2009)	" Love isn't inspired, it's hammered flat like Khrushchev's shoe." — I.E. Weekly Posted Sep 27, 2009
D+	13%	The Ugly Truth (2009)	" "Beats the @%$# out of me," says Butler when asked why he secretly loves her. Us too, but it's grating to when every scene is about her being wrong and him being right" — I.E. Weekly Posted Jul 23, 2009
D+	25%	The Da Vinci Code (2006)	" What seems credible on page is ludicrous in action." — I.E. Weekly Posted May 14, 2009
D+	24%	Little Ashes (2009)	" The film teeters on camp, but the melodramatic music is a killjoy nagging the love struck teens in the audience that they should ache in their soul--not their pants" — I.E. Weekly Posted May 7, 2009
D+	43%	Race to Witch Mountain (2009)	" It cracks skulls for thrills; I'm uneasy that the MPAA prigs see the Disney castle at the opening credits and think nothing of its conscienceless, consequenceless thuggery." — I.E. Weekly Posted Mar 12, 2009

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