Farran Smith Nehme

Farran Smith Nehme

Agrees with the Tomatometer 78% of the time.

Publications:
New York Post
Total Reviews:
214

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
3/4 84% A Touch of Sin (2013) " "A Touch of Sin" is by no means subtle, but it is composed with a passion and sinuous grace that makes it far more effective than many other sincere message movies." — New York Post
Posted Oct 4, 2013
3/4 93% Let The Fire Burn (2013) " The pure-archive approach leaves a taste of despair; civic governance, it seems, can't even promise not to kill you." — New York Post
Posted Oct 4, 2013
2.5/4 100% On The Job (2013) " Matti uses this setup to show the rot in Philippine society, and it's often compelling stuff - filmed mostly on dirty streets and in moldy, ramshackle buildings." — New York Post
Posted Sep 27, 2013
67% Newlyweeds (2013) " The movie at last finds its legs in a windup that has great compassion for these sweet, lost souls." — New York Post
Posted Sep 20, 2013
3/5 96% Mother Of George (2013) " Darci Picoult's script renders all of these characters, if not always sympathetically, humanly and fully." — New York Post
Posted Sep 13, 2013
3.5/5 98% Wadjda (2013) " What makes the movie so delightful is that Wadjda isn't trying to make trouble; she's just being herself." — New York Post
Posted Sep 13, 2013
60% La Maison De La Radio (2013) " It's a film for Francophiles of the deepest dye, a grand tour of French culture and preoccupations." — New York Post
Posted Sep 6, 2013
2/4 43% Abigail Harm (2013) " The tone teeters between delicate and affected, and there's only so much flitting around and soulful stares a movie can sustain before an audience starts wanting something more earthbound." — New York Post
Posted Aug 30, 2013
1.5/4 59% Afternoon Delight (2013) " There are some bright one-liners in the beginning, but the comedy/drama mix is an uneasy one, especially considering the shabby way the film treats McKenna, as a tart who's just there to improve some yuppie sex lives." — New York Post
Posted Aug 30, 2013
3/4 100% Tokyo Waka: A City Poem (2013) " After a while it is impossible not to admire the birds' intelligence and resilience, and see that perhaps it's the other way around: The crows are the ones putting up with us." — New York Post
Posted Aug 30, 2013
2/4 81% Una noche (One Night) (2013) " Graced with an appealing soundtrack and actors who put fierce heart into every gesture, the movie never achieves the emotional impact desired." — New York Post
Posted Aug 23, 2013
3/4 91% Sparrows Dance (2013) " Given that the opening shot shows the heroine on the toilet, what a nice surprise to find that this is a pure love story, told with elegance and simplicity on a low budget." — New York Post
Posted Aug 23, 2013
1/4 8% Savannah (2013) " This is a Southern "Downton Abbey," minus the loopy plot turns and wisecracks that make that series so addictive." — New York Post
Posted Aug 23, 2013
1.5/4 75% Paradise: Faith (2013) " Now, here's the trilogy's second installment, in which the jolly Austrian makes it clear that women of a certain age do not have his permission to overdo it with religion, either." — New York Post
Posted Aug 23, 2013
1/4 69% The Happy Sad (2013) " Deadly earnestness and sex don't mix well at the movies." — New York Post
Posted Aug 16, 2013
2/4 83% The Patience Stone (2013) " "The Patience Stone" is essentially a monologue, and Atiq Rahimi (directing the adaptation of his own novel) doesn't have what it takes to make the story more dynamic." — New York Post
Posted Aug 16, 2013
3/4 89% You Will Be My Son (2013) " It's an entertaining melodrama of the old school that plays out with the clockwork inevitability of a "Columbo" episode." — New York Post
Posted Aug 16, 2013
3.5/4 96% Cutie And The Boxer (2013) " All that footage has been organized into a compact, graceful story arc." — New York Post
Posted Aug 16, 2013
1.5/4 71% The United States Of Autism (2013) " Amateurish and rushed." — New York Post
Posted Aug 9, 2013
3/4 55% I Give It a Year (2013) " As pure comedy, it's a hoot." — New York Post
Posted Aug 9, 2013
1.5/4 82% Jug Face (2013) " This morbid, cruel movie seems leached of all things that might inadvertently give viewers pleasure." — New York Post
Posted Aug 9, 2013
2.5/4 80% The Good Son: The Life of Ray Boom Boom Mancini (2013) " Mancini is a tremendously sympathetic figure, a hard-working man who became a fighter because he wanted to make things right, and still does." — New York Post
Posted Aug 9, 2013
3/4 60% Breakup at a Wedding (2013) " "Breakup at a Wedding'' works, because Quinaz has come up with a concept that lets him skewer directorial pretension alongside wedding hysteria." — New York Post
Posted Aug 2, 2013
2.5/4 79% Rising From Ashes (2013) " The sincerity and simplicity of the film ... lift it somewhat above the ordinary run." — New York Post
Posted Aug 2, 2013
2/4 68% The Artist and the Model (2013) " Dreamily pretty but insubstantial, Rochefort playing artistic brooding as almost pure grumpiness." — New York Post
Posted Aug 2, 2013
3/4 84% Smash & Grab: The Story of the Pink Panthers (2013) " The characters are so flashy that you can cast the Hollywood adaptation in your head while you watch." — New York Post
Posted Jul 31, 2013
1/4 0% Stranded (2013) " It's a scrappy, unpretentious movie, with nicely calibrated pacing, but there's no logic, little motivation and above all, no personalities." — New York Post
Posted Jul 26, 2013
2.5/4 71% Terraferma (2013) " Emanuele Crialese's film burns with a sense of this situation's inhumanity, and he gives a palpable sense of life in a place where the beauty attracts tourists, but the natives are barely getting by." — New York Post
Posted Jul 26, 2013
1/4 38% First Comes Love (2013) " Davenport makes desultory attempts to bring in other mothers, but she is not an interviewer adept at drawing out scintillating observations." — New York Post
Posted Jul 26, 2013
2/4 62% Iceberg Slim: Portrait Of A Pimp (2013) " The film succeeds as an introduction to Beck the writer but is undercut by its lack of gritty details." — New York Post
Posted Jul 18, 2013
2/4 37% Dealing With Idiots (2013) " The movie was largely improvised, which lends itself more to scenes than a feature-length film." — New York Post
Posted Jul 18, 2013
1.5/4 25% Copperhead (2013) " So much taste and intelligence went into these finely wrought costumes, props and sets in order to tell a story of such tedium. " — New York Post
Posted Jul 18, 2013
4/4 97% The Act Of Killing (2013) " The cumulative impact is devastating, and very far from a simple Western condemnation of another country's brutality." — New York Post
Posted Jul 18, 2013
2/4 65% Nicky's Family (2013) " The unfathomable tragedy of the Holocaust is beyond the scope of "Nicky's Family," and even as the credits roll, Winton's simple decency is as mysterious as ever." — New York Post
Posted Jul 18, 2013
2/4 64% Israel: A Home Movie (2013) " Ultimately, this film reveals the Israeli self-image, but not much more." — New York Post
Posted Jul 11, 2013
2/4 36% The Hot Flashes (2013) " Lifetime movies have their pleasures, and so does this film." — New York Post
Posted Jul 11, 2013
3/4 7% Just Like A Woman (2013) " [Miller and Farahani] give strong performances as women bonding over their delight in both movement and their own beauty." — New York Post
Posted Jul 3, 2013
1.5/4 93% Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me (2013) " By the end, I was muttering at every critic and musician and record producer, "Guys, tell me something I don't know."" — New York Post
Posted Jul 3, 2013
2.5/4 63% Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain (2013) " Once Hart is on, he's hilarious; be warned, however, he takes a long time to get under way." — New York Post
Posted Jul 3, 2013
2.5/4 72% How To Make Money Selling Drugs (2013) " It often works, despite in-your-face graphics that occasionally do the job of resembling cheesy sales pitches a little too well." — New York Post
Posted Jun 28, 2013
2/4 33% Sing Me the Songs That Say I Love You: A Concert for Kate McGarrigle (2013) " There's virtually no biographical content. The songs stick very much to one plaintive folk-pop style, and if that is not your passion, the flood of concert footage becomes wearing fairly early on." — New York Post
Posted Jun 28, 2013
3/4 92% Museum Hours (2013) " The film shows how quiet exteriors can mask deep interior lives, and how art feeds those lives." — New York Post
Posted Jun 28, 2013
2.5/4 80% Laurence Anyways (2013) " At nearly three hours, it's entirely too long, needlessly padded out with an intrusive interview-framing device." — New York Post
Posted Jun 28, 2013
2/4 33% Bert and Arnie's Guide to Friendship (2013) " All this transpires in scenes that play more like skits, though some are pretty funny." — New York Post
Posted Jun 21, 2013
2/4 67% Downloaded (2013) " Winter can't get his arms around his material. He seems reluctant to pare anything, and his talking techie heads - Napster founders Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker, along with a host of others - often make the same points, one after another." — New York Post
Posted Jun 21, 2013
4/4 97% A Hijacking (2013) " Hand-held camerawork, so often a confounded nuisance, here makes the conditions on board the Rozen feel nauseatingly urgent." — New York Post
Posted Jun 21, 2013
2/4 90% The Attack (2013) " "The Attack" starts out strong and swiftly unravels somewhere past the midpoint." — New York Post
Posted Jun 21, 2013
1/4 8% The Stroller Strategy (2013) " Writer-director Clément Michel forgot to give his characters personality, let alone charm." — New York Post
Posted Jun 14, 2013
2.5/4 89% In the Fog (2013) " Even when the pace wanes, the images are still gripping." — New York Post
Posted Jun 14, 2013
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