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Nick Schager

Agrees with the Tomatometer 72% of the time.

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Total Reviews:: 2898
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Location:: New York, NY

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
	——	Released (2013)	" Released comes off as a series of heartfelt testimonials that, despite their sincerity, have a limited scope beyond the usual don't-do-drugs and go-to-school cautionary tales." — Village Voice Posted May 7, 2013
	——	He's Way More Famous Than You (2013)	" A self-referential, insider farce about the hunger for Hollywood stardom, He's Way More Famous Than You is-like its leading lady-as unhinged as it is hilarious." — Village Voice Posted May 7, 2013
	——	Pilgrim Song (2013)	" So little occurs, and so little seems to be at stake, that the action takes on the quality of a tossed-off, not-especially-melodic country-music ditty." — Village Voice Posted May 7, 2013
	——	Java Heat (2013)	" Java Heat's title refers not to hot coffee but to the Indonesian island, though caffeine is certainly recommended to make it through this tepid buddy-cop action flick." — Village Voice Posted May 7, 2013
2/5	33%	Peeples (2013)	" Defined by Three's Company-grade humor, this attempt at male-anxiety cringe-comedy is little more than a sitcom writ large ..." — Time Out New York Posted May 7, 2013
3/5	80%	One Track Heart: The Story of Krishna Das (2013)	" Modest and affecting, it's a portrait of the possibility of finding peace, contentment and self through both music and spirituality." — Time Out New York Posted May 7, 2013
	——	One Night Stand (2013)	" Doesn't amount to more than a flimsy home-movie portrait of the creative process under time constraints." — Village Voice Posted Apr 28, 2013
2.5/4	——	Raze ()	" The thrill of seeing women beat the snot out of each other is about all that Raze offers, though for a lean, efficient 83-minute genre picture like this, that turns out to be just enough. " — Slant Magazine Posted Apr 26, 2013
3/4	——	A Single Shot ()	" Its portrait of foolishness and fallibility, and its atmosphere of inevitable doom, remain sturdy and captivating." — Slant Magazine Posted Apr 26, 2013
2.5/4	46%	Pain & Gain (2013)	" An outrageous based-on-real-life tale that's perfectly suited to director Michael Bay's insanely overblown stylistic and thematic temperament." — Slant Magazine Posted Apr 24, 2013
2.5/4	——	Big Bad Wolves ()	" From a purely suspenseful vantage point, Big Bad Wolves is an efficient and effective beast. " — Slant Magazine Posted Apr 23, 2013
4/4	47%	The Lords of Salem (2013)	" Rob Zombie understands horror as an aural-visual experience that should gnaw at the nerves, seep into the subconscious, and beget unshakeable nightmares." — Slant Magazine Posted Apr 14, 2013
2/4	77%	42 (2013)	" The film elevates the story of Jackie Robinson to that of cornball legend rather than just honoring his legitimately uplifting, heroic saga by telling it straight." — Slant Magazine Posted Apr 10, 2013
	67%	Fists Of Legend (2013)	" Stretches its runtime to a ridiculous 154 minutes ..." — Village Voice Posted Apr 9, 2013
	27%	The Brass Teapot (2013)	" Even The Twilight Zone would have struggled with the cutesy conceit of The Brass Teapot ..." — Village Voice Posted Apr 4, 2013
	44%	Thale (2013)	" Soon the wealth of exposition is accompanied by the appearance of hoofed CG wilderness she-beasts devoid of any terrifying personality." — Village Voice Posted Apr 3, 2013
	56%	Eddie The Sleepwalking Cannibal (2013)	" Writer-director Boris Rodriguez's satire about artistic inspiration ..." — Village Voice Posted Apr 3, 2013
	75%	Murph: The Protector (2013)	" A one-note hagiography, no matter how convincing and affecting its portrait of unimpeachable courage." — Village Voice Posted Apr 1, 2013
.5/4	8%	Tomorrow You're Gone (2013)	" Hardboiled noir play-acting doesn't get more sluggish than in this leaden tale that blurs the line between reality and delusion in a way that's less intriguing than simply confusing. " — Slant Magazine Posted Mar 31, 2013
1/5	16%	Temptation (2013)	" Tyler Perry's insane, inane Old Testament-style morality tale." — Time Out New York Posted Mar 29, 2013
	38%	Family Weekend (2013)	" Quirky indie hell, thy name is Family Weekend." — Village Voice Posted Mar 26, 2013
	13%	Love And Honor (2013)	" The CW version of the Vietnam War and the 1969 counterculture, Love and Honor hews to a mushy formula far older than its subject matter." — Village Voice Posted Mar 19, 2013
	69%	New World (2013)	" Park's direction is sleek and assured, but lacking the dynamism that might help energize a film that-its title notwithstanding-comes off as dully old-school." — Village Voice Posted Mar 19, 2013
3/4	56%	Come Out And Play (2013)	" Makinov's film expertly crafts a sense of dawning madness that hinges on its villains' unspoken fury at their elders. " — Slant Magazine Posted Mar 16, 2013
	30%	Reincarnated (2013)	" The film is as lightweight as the ganja-puffing is plentiful, little more than a vanity project that allows its subject to wax philosophical on his past triumphs, tragedies, and spiritual development ..." — Village Voice Posted Mar 12, 2013
	71%	My Amityville Horror (2013)	" Whether it was all a haunting or a hoax is left unanswered, but the film leaves little doubt that Amityville's greatest source of evil was, fundamentally, parental in nature." — Village Voice Posted Mar 12, 2013
2/4	——	If I Were You (Se Eu Fosse Voce) (2006)	" A wannabe French-style infidelity farce that keeps indulging in unnecessary bathos and subplots." — Slant Magazine Posted Mar 11, 2013
	36%	Dead Man Down (2013)	" It's all so much turgid brooding, dialogue underlined with import, and leaden symbolism involving Rapace's white and red dresses, none of which is salvaged by a typically understated Farrell performance." — Village Voice Posted Mar 7, 2013
	31%	Emperor (2013)	" Given its true-life basis, the story is already devoid of suspense regarding Hirohito's ultimate fate, and Fellers's inquiry is made more sluggish by dramatically inert conversations ..." — Village Voice Posted Mar 5, 2013
	67%	Stoker (2013)	" A Hitchcockian stew of hothouse familial jealousy, sadism, and psychosis all tied together by one teenage girl's homicidal coming of age." — Village Voice Posted Feb 26, 2013
3/4	83%	Genius On Hold (2013)	" Though overstuffed, his film eschews pop-doc conventions by opting for in-depth analysis over superficiality." — Slant Magazine Posted Feb 25, 2013
1/4	25%	Phantom (2013)	" Todd Robinson's film is a third-rate submarine-set drama until, in its final moments, it sinks to fourth-rate. " — Slant Magazine Posted Feb 23, 2013
	95%	One Life (2013)	" Another gorgeously shot document of nature's majesty, this one focusing on the life cycle-and interconnectedness-of all living creatures." — Village Voice Posted Feb 19, 2013
	91%	The Last Gladiators (2013)	" Gibney celebrates hockey's fisticuff traditions while also recognizing how such brutality ultimately takes its greatest toll on those who perpetrate it." — Village Voice Posted Feb 13, 2013
	57%	Shanghai Calling (2013)	" Shanghai Calling eventually reveals itself to be just another stale tale about the virtue of morality over ambition ..." — Village Voice Posted Feb 12, 2013
	65%	The Jeffrey Dahmer Files (2013)	" Thompson assembles his footage with an expert's touch, but what his film lacks is its own perspective on these atrocities. " — Village Voice Posted Feb 12, 2013
2/4	——	A Rubberband Is An Unlikely Instrument (2013)	" It's as though the director, like his subjects, was too comfortable in the safe familiarity of the surface to find the place where it betrays us." — Slant Magazine Posted Feb 6, 2013
	——	A Rubberband Is An Unlikely Instrument (2013)	" Without any engaging small-scale human drama or larger social or culture-clash import, the film comes across as trivial, and too often also indulgent and pretentious." — Village Voice Posted Feb 5, 2013
1/5	23%	The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia (2013)	" Ultimately nothing more than a decrepit vehicle for the moldiest of scary-movie clichés: screechy specters, inane character behavior and jump scares that a toddler could anticipate minutes ahead of time." — Time Out New York Posted Feb 5, 2013
	89%	Koch (2013)	" If unlikely to change anyone's mind about its subject, it's an effective primer on a voluble and charismatic mayor who embodied the spirit of the city he loved." — Village Voice Posted Jan 29, 2013
1.5/4	40%	As Luck Would Have It (2013)	" Álex de la Iglesia's film hammers home the opinion that family is more important than celebrity or wealth." — Slant Magazine Posted Jan 29, 2013
3/5	86%	Supporting Characters (2013)	" [A] modest but surprisingly deft indie ..." — Time Out New York Posted Jan 23, 2013
	100%	Resolution (2013)	" Ambiguity enlivens the smart, knotty Resolution, which routinely nods to its own artificiality while positing storytelling as a constantly evolving beast apt to save your life one moment and consume you the next." — Village Voice Posted Jan 22, 2013
1/5	75%	The Tall Man ()	— Boxoffice Magazine Posted Jan 22, 2013
	56%	Fairhaven (2013)	" Indies don't come blander than writer/director Tom O'Brien's Fairhaven ..." — Village Voice Posted Jan 9, 2013
	19%	The Baytown Outlaws (2013)	" Diligently profane and inane ..." — Village Voice Posted Jan 9, 2013
	43%	Storage 24 (2013)	" A monster from a familiar mother." — Village Voice Posted Jan 9, 2013
.5/4	19%	Texas Chainsaw 3D (2013)	" There's no deliberate Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2-style comedy to the film, just dim-witted gruesomeness retrofitted with gimmicky contemporary trappings." — Slant Magazine Posted Jan 4, 2013
2/5	43%	Waiting For Lightning (2012)	" Rosenberg's approach is heavy with archival footage and interviews, yet oddly features almost nothing from Way himself; his puzzling absence for most of the film turns the project into less of a biography than a one-note hagiography." — Time Out New York Posted Dec 4, 2012

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