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Chris Nashawaty

Chris Nashawaty

Agrees with the Tomatometer 75% of the time.

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Entertainment Weekly
Total Reviews:
94

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B- 83% Berberian Sound Studio (2013) " While it's a loving homage to movies like Dario Argento's Suspiria and is crafted with tons of style, it leaves out one key ingredient: being even remotely scary." — Entertainment Weekly
Posted Oct 4, 2013
B+ 83% Shepard & Dark (2013) " Both good times and bad bubble back up to the surface, giving the film an unguarded honesty." — Entertainment Weekly
Posted Sep 27, 2013
C- 35% Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013) " The problem is, Wan is reaching into the same old grab bag of shock scares, creaky-door sound effects, and ominous baby monitor voices he used in the far better original Insidious." — Entertainment Weekly
Posted Sep 12, 2013
A- 95% Enough Said (2013) " It shows us how rare love is - and how we need to grab it and not let it go." — Entertainment Weekly
Posted Sep 12, 2013
C 50% Thanks For Sharing (2013) " This tone-deaf misfire can't decide whether it wants to be a broad comedy doling out raunchy slapstick laughs or a serious drama about our porn-saturated age of sensory overload." — Entertainment Weekly
Posted Sep 12, 2013
B 88% Rush (2013) " Rush hits a few potholes, but in the end it reveals the psyches of two men who only feel alive when they're cheating death." — Entertainment Weekly
Posted Sep 11, 2013
C 41% All the Boys Love Mandy Lane (2013) " Here's a case where the backstory is more interesting than the movie." — Entertainment Weekly
Posted Sep 4, 2013
C+ 64% One Direction: This Is Us (2013) " Essentially a slick, airbrushed promo reel of a bunch of genuinely sweet superstars who can't believe their dumb luck. That's charming. But it's also a little boring. What it's most definitely not is a documentary." — Entertainment Weekly
Posted Aug 28, 2013
B- 12% The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (2013) " More than just another watered-down tween franchise wannabe." — Entertainment Weekly
Posted Aug 21, 2013
C 4% Paranoia (2013) " Paranoia? More like déjà vu." — Entertainment Weekly
Posted Aug 16, 2013
C 30% Kick-Ass 2 (2013) " What was once shocking now just elicits a shrug." — Entertainment Weekly
Posted Aug 16, 2013
B+ 73% Lee Daniels' The Butler (2013) " An ambitious, sweeping period drama that manages to be incredibly affecting and feel as if the words ''For Your Consideration'' are stamped across every frame." — Entertainment Weekly
Posted Aug 7, 2013
B 47% We're The Millers (2013) " While Aniston shows that she's as deft on a stripper pole as she is with her sitcom-honed timing, Sudeikis wields his smart-ass sarcasm like a barbed weapon. And more often than not, it kills." — Entertainment Weekly
Posted Aug 6, 2013
B+ 63% 2 Guns (2013) " Goosed along by a pulpy Elmore Leonard vibe, 2 Guns is essentially a B movie classed up by its two A-list stars." — Entertainment Weekly
Posted Jul 31, 2013
B- 69% The Wolverine (2013) " A Wolverine tale that's more loaded with psychological questions (his immortality is seen as a curse) and makes the haunted character more interesting." — Entertainment Weekly
Posted Jul 25, 2013
C 20% Girl Most Likely (2013) " Wiig didn't write the script for Girl Most Likely, but surely all those years of making tangy lemonade from the SNL writing staff's lemons must have given her the chops to do more than she manages to do here. What a shame." — Entertainment Weekly
Posted Jul 21, 2013
A- 87% The Conjuring (2013) " Wan masterfully tightens the vise on the audience's nerves, using mood and sound effects for shocks that never feel cheap (the harmless kids' game of hide-and-clap has never been so bloodcurdling)." — Entertainment Weekly
Posted Jul 17, 2013
B 65% Turbo (2013) " While there's no denying that the film is a harmless, wholesome, and heart-warming ride crafted with polish and skill, it's also so predictable that you'll see every twist in the story driving down Fifth Avenue." — Entertainment Weekly
Posted Jul 10, 2013
B- 72% Pacific Rim (2013) " That's exactly what the film feels like: a 48-year-old kid playing with gigantic action figures in the world's most expensive sandbox. Unfortunately, his deep-rooted passion never quite makes the leap from his imagination to the screen." — Entertainment Weekly
Posted Jul 10, 2013
B+ 63% Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain (2013) " He tells elliptical stories that go on so long and take so many weird detours that they end up being funny even when they shouldn't be." — Entertainment Weekly
Posted Jul 3, 2013
B 93% Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me (2013) " If Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me leads even one person to listen to Big Star for the first time, this movie will have done a great service." — Entertainment Weekly
Posted Jun 30, 2013
B- 50% White House Down (2013) " The main difference between Emmerich and fellow maestros of mayhem like Michael Bay is that he actually seems to be in on the joke. He knows his movies are preposterous nonsense and he embraces it." — Entertainment Weekly
Posted Jun 26, 2013
B 85% The Way Way Back (2013) " There's something slightly formulaic and familiar about Nat Faxon and Jim Rash's coming-of-age film The Way, Way Back, but not enough to dampen its crowd-pleasing charm." — Entertainment Weekly
Posted Jun 26, 2013
D 72% How To Make Money Selling Drugs (2013) " If all of this is meant to be a satirical, tongue-in-cheek way into examining the problem of drugs in America, the conceit doesn't work." — Entertainment Weekly
Posted Jun 25, 2013
A 95% Plimpton! Starring George Plimpton As Himself (2013) " Plimpton! Starring George Plimpton as Himself is a remarkable doc about a life well lived." — Entertainment Weekly
Posted Jun 25, 2013
A- 78% Monsters University (2013) " Monsters University is exactly the rebound Pixar needed after 2011's Cars 2 left some wondering if the studio had lost its magic." — Entertainment Weekly
Posted Jun 19, 2013
C 56% Man of Steel (2013) " Never has a race to save the fate of humankind seemed so tedious." — Entertainment Weekly
Posted Jun 11, 2013
B 84% Much Ado About Nothing (2013) " The film isn't as fast and funny as it could be, although Nathan Fillion's easily offended constable injects some sorely needed comic relief. Still, give Whedon credit for trying to expose his Comic-Con fan base to a different kind of Hero." — Entertainment Weekly
Posted Jun 5, 2013
B- 38% The Purge (2013) " The Purge clearly has a lot on its mind, but it never really manages to express it." — Entertainment Weekly
Posted Jun 5, 2013
B+ 69% Fast & Furious 6 (2013) " A borderline ridiculous, over-the-top demolition derby that also happens to be a perfectly constructed low-IQ blast." — Entertainment Weekly
Posted May 22, 2013
B- 19% The Hangover Part III (2013) " Part caper, part coming-of-adulthood story, Hangover III never settles into a debauched groove. As a Sin City romp, it's too tame." — Entertainment Weekly
Posted May 22, 2013
B+ 93% Frances Ha (2013) " Shot in inky black and white and bristling with performances that feel captured on the fly, Baumbach's best film since 2005's The Squid and the Whale is both a nod and a throwback to the French New Wave." — Entertainment Weekly
Posted May 15, 2013
B- 49% The Great Gatsby (2013) " For the most part, the actors never sync up with Luhrmann's jitterbug rhythm." — Entertainment Weekly
Posted May 8, 2013
B- 67% The Iceman (2013) " With his chiseled-from-granite brow and harrowing, coiled-spring intensity, Michael Shannon is one of those actors who can make just about any movie interesting. And he has his work cut out for him in The Iceman ..." — Entertainment Weekly
Posted May 1, 2013
C 88% What Maisie Knew (2013) " Both of these actors have been great before and will be great again. But in this bleak indie bummer that confuses hopelessness with depth, they're really nothing more than selfish, one-dimensional monsters." — Entertainment Weekly
Posted May 1, 2013
B+ 98% Mud (2013) " There's something old-fashioned about Mud, but if you allow yourself to settle into its leisurely pace, it will reward you." — Entertainment Weekly
Posted Apr 24, 2013
B 49% Pain & Gain (2013) " With Pain & Gain, his surprising true-crime comedy, Bay has finally decided to lighten up a bit." — Entertainment Weekly
Posted Apr 24, 2013
C- 47% The Lords of Salem (2013) " Some of this looks cool enough, but most of it's just silly satanic mumbo jumbo that's not particularly scary." — Entertainment Weekly
Posted Apr 17, 2013
C+ 54% Oblivion (2013) " All the eye candy in the world can't mask the sensation that you've seen this all before...and done better. Too bad the movie's script wasn't given the same attention as its sleek, brave-new-world look." — Entertainment Weekly
Posted Apr 17, 2013
B+ 62% Evil Dead (2013) " The new Evil Dead is not only made with an affectionate nod and a wink to the 1981 version, it's also the bloodiest, goriest, slapstickiest horror movie since, well, The Evil Dead." — Entertainment Weekly
Posted Apr 3, 2013
C+ 16% Temptation (2013) " A few wild, third-act twists give Perry's middling melodrama some soap-opera kick. But all the finger-wagging sure does get tiring after a while." — Entertainment Weekly
Posted Mar 29, 2013
C 82% The Place Beyond The Pines (2013) " The Place Beyond the Pines wants to be a deep-dish meditation on fathers, sons, and the consequences of the decisions we make. But it's a slow-burner that burns so slowly its wick completely fizzles out." — Entertainment Weekly
Posted Mar 27, 2013
B+ 92% The Sapphires (2013) " An irresistible if unpolished feature debut from Aussie director Wayne Blair." — Entertainment Weekly
Posted Mar 20, 2013
C+ 59% Oz the Great and Powerful (2013) " While [Raimi's] Oz is like retinal crack, he never seduces our hearts and minds." — Entertainment Weekly
Posted Mar 6, 2013
B 46% Bullet to the Head (2013) " Bullet to the Head doesn't try to adapt its star to 2013. It just pretends that we're still living in 1986. And for 91 minutes, it just about works." — Entertainment Weekly
Posted Feb 1, 2013
B- 26% L!fe Happens (2012) " A mildly amusing indie that's neither as funny nor as poignant as it wants to be." — Entertainment Weekly
Posted Mar 29, 2012
B- 25% Act of Valor (2012) " When the bullets are flying, Act of Valor is undeniably tense and thrilling." — Entertainment Weekly
Posted Feb 25, 2012
C 84% The Tree of Life (2011) — Entertainment Weekly
Posted Oct 6, 2011
A- 90% Bridesmaids (2011) — Entertainment Weekly
Posted Sep 15, 2011
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