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Nicolas Rapold

Nicolas Rapold

Agrees with the Tomatometer 72% of the time.

Publications:
Film Comment Magazine , L.A. Weekly , Reverse Shot , Time Out New York , Village Voice
Total Reviews:
279

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
2.5/5 76% Concussion (2013) " Ms. Passon ultimately seems to skirt some of the larger life questions hinted at along the way." — New York Times
Posted Oct 3, 2013
3.5/5 100% A.K.A. Doc Pomus (2013) " This static documentary portrait relies on the usual panning over photos and tag-team interviews, but the format, like the radio length of a song, doesn't get in the way of its subject's heart." — New York Times
Posted Oct 3, 2013
4/5 93% Let The Fire Burn (2013) " Seamlessly fashioned from television news footage, public hearings and other sources, the movie relives an incredible chapter in American history." — New York Times
Posted Oct 1, 2013
3/5 —— The Dead Man and Being Happy (2013) " This reserved, tragicomic story of existential flight across Argentina is defined by its shifting, literary voice-over about the textured, wide-screen expanses crossed by its protagonist." — New York Times
Posted Sep 30, 2013
3.5/5 91% Inequality For All (2013) " Mr. Reich ties together his talking points with a reasonable-sounding analysis and an unassuming warmth sometimes absent from documentaries charting America's economic woes." — New York Times
Posted Sep 26, 2013
3.5/5 —— Winter Nomads (2013) " What little we learn of Pascal, who has worked in Switzerland as a shepherd for more than 30 years, and Carole, who is a former dietitian, fits in a scene or two, but their practical journey yields a certain contemplative equanimity." — New York Times
Posted Sep 26, 2013
3/5 63% The Network (2013) " Though heavy with interviews that can be shallow, the movie provides an angle on a country remaking itself after Taliban rule." — New York Times
Posted Sep 26, 2013
2/5 18% Baggage Claim (2013) " Predictability and clichés get in the way of comedy here, especially with a lead character who rarely comes across as more than blandly sweet." — New York Times
Posted Sep 26, 2013
2/5 67% Haute Cuisine (2013) " A reserved, très simple tale that raises the occasional smile and tummy rumble but keeps hiccuping because of the drawn-out parallel story about her subsequent tour of duty." — New York Times
Posted Sep 19, 2013
3/5 60% Ip Man: The Final Fight (2013) " Seriously, if not always elegantly, the film portrays the great Ip Man as someone trying to survive, which is to say just as often a victim as a victor." — New York Times
Posted Sep 19, 2013
3/5 81% The Short Game (2013) " On a cuteness scale -- where 10 is a fuzzy kitten yawning in a hammock -- the chattily uninhibited 7- and 8-year-old golfers of The Short Game score high." — New York Times
Posted Sep 19, 2013
4/5 —— First Cousin, Once Removed () " It's the latest of Mr. Berliner's dogged investigations into identity and family, and his strongest work yet, elevated by the presence of another artist in Mr. Honig, playfully insightful and eloquent even as his powers wane." — New York Times
Posted Sep 15, 2013
3.5/5 92% Sample This (2013) " With their love of their craft and their respect for other talents, these bighearted musicians make for a warmly gratifying film to watch." — New York Times
Posted Sep 12, 2013
3/5 88% Informant (2013) " If his methods don't come off smoothly, Mr. Meltzer's conclusion does leave you feeling that even the whole story would be cold comfort for those involved." — New York Times
Posted Sep 12, 2013
60% La Maison De La Radio (2013) " As we watch hosts and announcers talk away on the air, the movie begins to feel like a series of communications between the speakers-and unseen millions." — Film Comment Magazine
Posted Sep 8, 2013
100% All Is Lost (2013) " Forsaking the chatter of his risibly exposition-heavy MARGIN CALL (11), and one-upping LIFE OF PI by stripping things down to the bare minimum, Chandor charts an admirably uncompromising if curiously aloof course into nothingness." — Film Comment Magazine
Posted Sep 8, 2013
3.5/5 96% I Am Breathing (2013) " A film that, amid cinema's hit parade of violent but curiously instantaneous deaths, reminds us what it means to bear witness to the very end." — New York Times
Posted Sep 6, 2013
2/5 0% American Milkshake (2013) " "American Milkshake" merrily bumps along as if it were the first movie to find humor in a white kid's idolizing desire to "be black," whatever that may mean to him." — New York Times
Posted Sep 5, 2013
2.5/5 —— The Last Christeros (2013) " Mr. Meyer adheres to a cinema of broad experience by casting rugged but uninspiring nonprofessionals and focusing on the rebels' long, lonely struggle rather than on triumph and tactics." — New York Times
Posted Aug 29, 2013
2/5 13% The Lifeguard (2013) " This directorial debut by Liz W. Garcia, a writer for television, bears some echoes of its creator's origins, going from deft to trite in its drama and setting up character arcs that feel sappily resolved within its feature length." — New York Times
Posted Aug 29, 2013
2.5/5 38% Dark Tourist (2013) " "Dark Tourist" takes an effectively unpleasant trip down the lost highway of a morbid mind before its bad choices start catching up with it." — New York Times
Posted Aug 29, 2013
2.5/5 89% The Trials Of Muhammad Ali (2013) " "The Trials of Muhammad Ali" succumbs to the looming danger of hero worship by its end, when Mr. Ali's daughter appears and his continuing trial, Parkinson's, is addressed." — New York Times
Posted Aug 22, 2013
3/5 —— Herblock: The Black & the White (2013) " All these encomiums grow wearying to watch. But you could do worse than this introduction to an inspiring artist and farsighted patriot." — New York Times
Posted Aug 15, 2013
4/5 92% This Is Martin Bonner (2013) " Mr. Eenhoorn (whose patient expressions here suggest a kindly priest) gives his character the shy charm of palpable decency." — New York Times
Posted Aug 13, 2013
2/5 46% Off Label (2013) " The film's stacked stories naggingly lack a cohesive train of thought beyond the often harmful pervasiveness of pharmaceuticals in American society." — New York Times
Posted Aug 8, 2013
3/5 75% ZIPPER: Coney Island's Last Wild Ride (2013) " Though not terribly nuanced, a bit muddled and lacking certain perspectives, "Zipper" drives home the fragile identity of even the city's signature locales and the alarming cultural myopia of much redevelopment ..." — New York Times
Posted Aug 8, 2013
2.5/5 82% Jug Face (2013) " Some low-budget manifestations of the supernatural jazz up the frights now and again, but as the novelty of worshiping a hole in the ground fades, the film paints itself into a corner." — New York Times
Posted Aug 8, 2013
3/5 80% Jamel Shabazz Street Photographer () " "Jamel Shabazz Street Photographer" could be slicker, but it does its part in sharing in its central figure's project of recording the living history that surrounds us." — New York Times
Posted Aug 1, 2013
4/5 91% The Spectacular Now (2013) " Mr. Ponsoldt ably charts a journey through the high stakes of adolescence, with both Sutter and Mr. Teller showing great promise." — New York Times
Posted Aug 1, 2013
3.5/5 84% Smash & Grab: The Story of the Pink Panthers (2013) " The insider's level of detail that gives so many good crime movies their bite is also what makes the documentary "Smash and Grab: The Story of the Pink Panthers" guiltily absorbing." — New York Times
Posted Jul 31, 2013
0/5 —— Neander-Jin: The Return of the Neanderthal Man (2013) " Neandertal is a valley in Germany. That meager fact is a spoiler for "Neander-Jin: The Return of the Neanderthal Man," because there is virtually nothing else of value to be gained from watching this film." — New York Times
Posted Jul 25, 2013
2.5/5 71% Terraferma (2013) " As "Terraferma" tightens its focus on a courageous resolution of tough issues, too much nuance is jettisoned along the way." — New York Times
Posted Jul 24, 2013
2/5 42% Red 2 (2013) " Cars careen, lazily written infiltration plans are executed, and the violence is plentiful and toothless." — New York Times
Posted Jul 18, 2013
3/5 —— La playa DC (2013) " An urban drama limited by its nonprofessional cast and impressionistic, scattered storytelling. " — New York Times
Posted Jul 18, 2013
2.5/5 —— Centro Histórico (2013) " The film's final shot might seem a little too apt a summary of an audience's reaction: Mr. Trêpa, looking into the camera, shrugs." — New York Times
Posted Jul 18, 2013
—— The Mask of Dimitrios (1944) " Romanian-born ex-painter Negulesco aims for sophistication with Hitchcockian banter between rivals -- Lorre and perennially suspicious Sydney Greenstreet -- and a crafty Wellesian figure of hearsay in Dimitrios." — Film Comment Magazine
Posted Jul 12, 2013
94% Fruitvale Station (2013) " The actual events already serve as a parable of race in America, but Coogler's dramatization does them justice." — Film Comment Magazine
Posted Jul 12, 2013
93% Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me (2013) " All too many music documentaries send you away feeling unsatisfied, but with its heartfelt backstory and generous helpings of music, Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me is a shining exception." — Film Comment Magazine
Posted Jul 12, 2013
3.5/5 86% Bhaag Milkha Bhaag (2013) " The way the movie strikes its chosen couple of notes resoundingly, making clear what makes Singh run." — New York Times
Posted Jul 11, 2013
3/5 80% The Shine of Day (2013) " The movie gratifyingly observes the openness that seems the base line for Philipp and Walter, and the glimmer of realization in a stage actor about the void that may lurk among his many liberating roles. " — New York Times
Posted Jul 11, 2013
2/5 —— Of By For () " If the lineup is bipartisan, the analysis oscillates between apt and obvious, culminating inevitably in amen calls for popular action." — New York Times
Posted Jul 4, 2013
4/5 93% Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me (2013) " A well-sourced account of a perfect, broken dream, Drew DeNicola and Olivia Mori's slightly shaggy documentary captures what it's like to discover music so good it seems as if it were made just for you." — New York Times
Posted Jul 2, 2013
97% The Act Of Killing (2013) " The Act of Killing and its backstory no doubt have more to reveal upon closer investigation, though what it's shown is already hard to forget." — Film Comment Magazine
Posted Jul 1, 2013
95% No One Knows About Persian Cats (Les Chats Persans) (2010) " What really distinguishes the film-banned in Iran, it goes without saying-is the enormous risks these musicians take, which Ghobadi ultimately drives home with legitimate dramatic license." — Film Comment Magazine
Posted Jul 1, 2013
81% The Skin I Live In (2011) " Despite the typically invigorating sense of line and framing, The Skin I Live In withholds the director's customary satisfactions and affirmations. The result is a saga of obsession that, in its saturnine undertone, maintains a hard-to-enjoy integrity." — Film Comment Magazine
Posted Jul 1, 2013
93% No (2013) " No reminds us that wherever "freedom" must be sold to the public, a history of complacency, violence, and terror has to be overcome." — Film Comment Magazine
Posted Jul 1, 2013
90% Lebanon (Levanon) (2010) " Though not as explicitly focused on memory as Waltz with Bashir, Lebanon's style lends its own dredged-from-memory, expressionistic rawness. " — Film Comment Magazine
Posted Jul 1, 2013
—— Donoma () " The entire 133-minute movie, in fact, is like a long story recounted with spontaneous digressions intact, all shot by someone who's been watching Cassavetes and Denis and seems inspired by Abdellatif Kechiche (an avowed fan of the film)." — Film Comment Magazine
Posted Jul 1, 2013
89% Prodigal Sons (2010) " While Reed's own self-exposure shows insight, her presentation of her brother's suffering comes across as an unprocessed spectacle of misery that hasn't been adequately thought out. " — Film Comment Magazine
Posted Jul 1, 2013
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