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Nick Schager

Nick Schager

Agrees with the Tomatometer 72% of the time.

Publications:
AV Club , Boxoffice Magazine , Cinematical , DVD Angle , Film Journal International , Filmcritic.com , House Next Door , L.A. Weekly , Lessons of Darkness , Matinee Magazine , MovieWeb , Nitrate Online , Paste Magazine , PopMatters , SF Weekly , Slant Magazine , The Dissolve , The L Magazine , The Screengrab , Time Out New York , Village Voice
Critics' Group:
Online Film Critics Society
Total Reviews:
2848
Total QuickRatings:
1
Location:
New York, NY

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1.5/4 29% The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty (2013) " Ben Stiller's aesthetics blend overly manicured imagery with soaring rock songs that underline every emotion, lest the film's corporate logo-driven message-making didn't get the point across clearly enough." — Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 6, 2013
3.5/5 100% A River Changes Course (2013) " A River Changes Course captures their struggle with an ethnographic gaze that generally maintains enough detachment to avoid excessive, judgmental handwringing and heartstring-tugging." — The Dissolve
Posted Oct 3, 2013
B 80% The Summit (2013) " Director Nick Ryan dramatizes this horrific tale through a variety of hindsight interviews from survivors and the dead's loved ones, footage shot by the climbers during their mission, and staged recreations ..." — AV Club
Posted Oct 3, 2013
D 8% Argento's Dracula 3D (2013) " Argento strands his actors in a variety of crummy master shots and close-ups that accentuate their every exaggerated gesture and line-reading." — AV Club
Posted Oct 3, 2013
1.5/5 0% Nothing Left to Fear (2013) " It's stale B-movie rubbish of a barely watchable sort." — The Dissolve
Posted Oct 2, 2013
42% All Is Bright (2013) " A holiday tale that sabotages its seriousness with humor that's both dire and out of place." — Village Voice
Posted Oct 1, 2013
80% I Used To Be Darker (2013) " Scripted like a series of chronological snapshots seen from a slight distance, the film exhibits a contemplative quiet and attentiveness to detail that enhances its issues of regret, bitterness, and confusion ..." — Village Voice
Posted Oct 1, 2013
—— Omar () " [Its] thriller machinations are merely a vehicle to deliver narrow-minded political preaching." — Village Voice
Posted Oct 1, 2013
4/5 63% The Network (2013) " A heartening but tempered portrait of the media's ability to effect social change." — The Dissolve
Posted Sep 30, 2013
88% Captain Phillips (2013) " It's a Hollywood-style A Hijacking for dummies." — Village Voice
Posted Sep 29, 2013
2/4 84% Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa () " Director Declan Lowney's film operates from a conceit that affords only minor opportunities for true hilarity." — Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 28, 2013
3/4 —— The Square (2013) " A blistering portrait of rebellion against social discord, marginalization and oppression, and a call to arms for true democratic ideals of dignity, justice, and fairness." — Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 25, 2013
B+ 83% Shepard & Dark (2013) " [The] aesthetic structure creates a haunting sense of the simultaneously wonderful and sad feelings both men have about lives and loves now gone, never to be recaptured." — AV Club
Posted Sep 25, 2013
—— Hôtel Normandy (2013) " There isn't a moment in Hôtel Normandy that isn't painfully contrived, yet, worse still, its mix-ups boast all the inspiration and excitement of a weekend getaway at the local mall." — Village Voice
Posted Sep 24, 2013
3.5/5 71% C.O.G. (2013) " Bolstered by beautiful cinematographic framing that expresses his alienation, the film strikes a fine balance between hilarity and heartbreak." — The Dissolve
Posted Sep 19, 2013
2/5 75% Generation Iron (2013) " Yudin's decision to opt for a wide-ranging collection of shallow portraits sabotages any chance of learning something meaningful or profound about these men." — The Dissolve
Posted Sep 19, 2013
1.5/5 56% My Lucky Star (2013) " Appropriating American rom-com tropes with such gusto...My Lucky Star is a cutesy Chinese caper cooked up with nothing but old scraps." — The Dissolve
Posted Sep 19, 2013
D+ 60% Ip Man: The Final Fight (2013) " The Final Fight plays out like a collection of greatest-hits vignettes barely connected to one another." — AV Club
Posted Sep 19, 2013
67% Newlyweeds (2013) " Far from preachy, Newlyweeds treats its subject matter with increasingly sobering gravity, and both Cheatom and Harris embody their characters not as cartoons but as lonely, misguided souls too blazed to realize the error of their ways." — Village Voice
Posted Sep 17, 2013
45% Men at Lunch (2013) " Shots of modern men rebuilding One World Trade Center stirringly evokes the majestic photo's continuing connection to the present." — Village Voice
Posted Sep 17, 2013
35% Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013) " Most of Chapter 2 is unintentionally hilarious." — Village Voice
Posted Sep 13, 2013
1/5 58% GMO OMG (2013) " The real truth is that GMO OMG...is merely the latest in a long line of one-sided agitprop documentaries. Far from an impartial investigation...Seifert's work is a monotonous censure that, in the absence of conclusive data, exploits fear." — The Dissolve
Posted Sep 12, 2013
D 45% And While We Were Here (2013) " A committed Bosworth gives herself over to the role. Yet, there's ultimately no real role for her to play-like her male co-stars, she's simply stuck embodying a series of clichéd poses ..." — AV Club
Posted Sep 12, 2013
B 100% The Last Time I Saw Macao (2013) " Rodrigues and Guerra Da Mata's film is often haunting, and its portentous and mournful atmospherics ultimately help compensate for the nagging impression that it's a work almost too personal for an outside viewer to fully penetrate." — AV Club
Posted Sep 12, 2013
C- 33% Jayne Mansfield's Car (2013) " It just sits there, in the process dispensing with so much leaden dialogue and half-formed narrative threads that it manages only to bring together lots of fine actors in the beautiful rural southern sunshine." — AV Club
Posted Sep 12, 2013
B 86% Blue Caprice (2013) " In search of answers for why a man and his surrogate son terrorized Washington, D.C., with a sniper rifle in October 2002, Blue Caprice proffers an intimate portrait devoid of sympathy." — AV Club
Posted Sep 12, 2013
95% Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction (2013) " A film that's in perfect sync with its subject." — Village Voice
Posted Sep 10, 2013
1/5 —— Butcher Boys () " The film -- even with its deliberately ridiculous, open-ended metro-mayhem finale -- is just so much tiresome Texas Chainsaw redux." — The Dissolve
Posted Sep 9, 2013
2/5 44% Bounty Killer (2013) " Bounty Killer proves a derivative science-fiction saga with even less flavor than the characters' rare favorite beverage, Pabst Blue Ribbon." — The Dissolve
Posted Sep 5, 2013
B+ 100% Red Obsession (2013) " A concise portrait of not only the historic Bordeaux region of France, but also of the way its business has been impacted-for good and ill-by China's emergence as a superpower." — AV Club
Posted Sep 5, 2013
1/4 60% Riddick (2013) " For a film about a killing machine who can see at night, it's fittingly ironic that the film itself is, both narratively and visually, a dark, muddled mess." — Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 4, 2013
2/5 3% Getaway (2013) " If you can't even deliver blatant car-nography, what's the point?" — Time Out New York
Posted Aug 29, 2013
2.5/5 40% American Made Movie (2013) " American Made Movie reveals itself as a superficial inquiry, substituting random anecdotes for genuine proposals about how the country might renew its manufacturing base." — The Dissolve
Posted Aug 29, 2013
59% Afternoon Delight (2013) " The central conceit is impossibly contrived." — Village Voice
Posted Aug 27, 2013
1/5 —— Surviving Evil (2013) " It's so clichéd that it stymies any narrative momentum, and so dreary that it negates any chance for unintentional comedy." — The Dissolve
Posted Aug 27, 2013
2/5 54% Spark: A Burning Man Story (2013) " Spark: A Burning Man Story isn't so much a story as a feature-length commercial for the annual hippie-courting festival held in Nevada's Black Rock Desert." — The Dissolve
Posted Aug 26, 2013
3/5 91% Sparrows Dance (2013) " A mannered, occasionally mesmerizing romance that frequently cops to its own artificiality." — The Dissolve
Posted Aug 22, 2013
80% Drinking Buddies (2013) " Though nothing immensely consequential happens during the course of Drinking Buddies, Swanberg crafts a conversational atmosphere that compensates for a lack of momentous drama" — Film Journal International
Posted Aug 22, 2013
C+ 81% Una noche (One Night) (2013) " A film that spends scant time fleshing out any various elements ..." — AV Club
Posted Aug 22, 2013
C 52% Thérèse (2013) " [A] static, emotionless saga, which is defined less by zealous feeling than by a dull, decorous air of respectability." — AV Club
Posted Aug 22, 2013
8% Savannah (2013) " The story overflows with reverence but is drastically short on passion or suspense ..." — Village Voice
Posted Aug 20, 2013
1/5 4% Paranoia (2013) " Fixates on the perils and panic of our modern surveillance culture while itself proving to be borderline unwatchable." — Time Out New York
Posted Aug 16, 2013
B 50% Drew: The Man Behind The Poster (2013) " Drew makes a valid case for the artist as not simply an all-time great, but as a casualty of a business that prizes bottom-line cost management above unique creativity." — AV Club
Posted Aug 15, 2013
—— Approximately Nels Cline (2013) " [Presents] artistic creativity as an unpredictable, ever-flowing journey from one unconventional locale to another." — Village Voice
Posted Aug 13, 2013
—— In Search of Blind Joe Death: The Saga of John Fahey (2013) " Fahey-who died in 2001 at age 61-is depicted as a unique explorer who was in constant search of his next sonic revelation." — Village Voice
Posted Aug 13, 2013
96% Cutie And The Boxer (2013) " Both amusing and acutely perceptive, it's a portrait of the way in which art is born from suffering, and how that pain can lead to both beauty and, ultimately, catharsis." — Village Voice
Posted Aug 13, 2013
2/5 38% Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (2013) " It feels as if the filmmakers are coasting on the fumes of teen-angst fantasy and making up their fairy-tale rules (Cyclopes are fireproof!) as they go along." — Time Out New York
Posted Aug 6, 2013
78% Europa Report (2013) " A science-fiction saga that strives for realism in not just its science but also its scripting and characters, Europa Report proves a well-executed, thematically intriguing tale of outer space exploration..." — Film Journal International
Posted Aug 1, 2013
1.5/5 69% Cockneys vs Zombies (2013) " Technical proficiency notwithstanding, basic storytelling lapses doom Cockneys Vs. Zombies to the realm of the second-rate and sloppy, all the way to a finale so abrupt and inconclusive, it's as if the filmmakers grew weary of their own undead endeavor." — The Dissolve
Posted Aug 1, 2013
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