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Rob Nelson

Rob Nelson

Agrees with the Tomatometer 73% of the time.

Publications:
Boston Phoenix , Chicago Sun-Times , City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul , Film Comment Magazine , indieWIRE , L.A. Weekly , Minneapolis Star Tribune , minnpost.com , Nashville Scene , Variety , Village Voice
Critics' Group:
National Society of Film Critics
Total Reviews:
451

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
86% Évocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie (2013) " The film does an excellent job of showing how hate-TV was molded in the image of snarling, chain-smoking, guest-berating Downey." — Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Oct 2, 2013
8% Argento's Dracula 3D (2013) " Director Argento half-heartedly mixes schlocky 3D f/x with one-dimensional characters for a near-two-hour joke that ought to have been funnier." — Variety
Posted Sep 30, 2013
75% Concussion (2013) " Shot as if they were ads for high-thread-count bed sheets, the pic's talky afternoon delights remain more flowery than erotic." — Variety
Posted Sep 18, 2013
3.5/4 92% Museum Hours (2013) " Cohen's spare but spectacularly visualized film follows a pair of middle-aged strangers who meet in a Viennese art museum and proceed to walk and talk." — Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Sep 12, 2013
80% The Good Son: The Life of Ray Boom Boom Mancini (2013) " Connects on emotional levels in the telling of an up-from-nothing brawler whose colorful career climaxed in tragedy." — Variety
Posted Aug 8, 2013
3.5/4 68% Elysium (2013) " What's great about "Elysium" is that it invites and even encourages discussion and debate while delivering proficiently at the levels of plot, action and special effects." — Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Aug 8, 2013
82% Jug Face (2013) " An impressively oozing slab of indie horror that bodes well for first-time writer-director Chad Crawford Kinkle." — Variety
Posted Aug 8, 2013
91% The Spectacular Now (2013) " This bittersweet ode to the moment of childhood's end builds quietly to a pitch-perfect finale." — Variety
Posted Jul 29, 2013
80% Laurence Anyways (2013) " Fully immodest and intermittently astonishing." — Variety
Posted Jun 24, 2013
47% Maniac (2013) " A shocker of a remake, equal parts stylish and scuzzy." — Variety
Posted Jun 18, 2013
47% The Lords of Salem (2013) " Less inferno than slow burn, Rob Zombie's retro witch thriller The Lords of Salem has plenty of portent but not much payoff." — Variety
Posted Apr 16, 2013
71% My Amityville Horror (2013) " Where Walter's film succeeds is in rendering Lutz, onscreen throughout, as an indelibly prickly and unsettling figure." — Variety
Posted Apr 2, 2013
100% The Crash Reel () " Walker pulls off a spectacular feat ... balancing the needs of extreme sports vid and cautionary tale." — Variety
Posted Feb 7, 2013
33% Running From Crazy () " The narratively jumbled film ... features too many scenes that amount to mere stargazing." — Variety
Posted Feb 5, 2013
40% The Rambler (2013) " Writer-director Calvin Lee Reeder's randomly splattering take on the back-country-road movie." — Variety
Posted Feb 1, 2013
0% American Milkshake (2013) " "Milkshake" sucks all the flavor out of a tasty premise ..." — Variety
Posted Feb 1, 2013
—— Valentine Road () " Though the ugly phobia that gave rise to the killing and permeated the legal proceedings boils the blood, the film's tone is somber rather than angry, and its effect is quietly devastating." — Variety
Posted Jan 29, 2013
82% Dirty Wars (2013) " [The] astonishingly hard-hitting "Dirty Wars" renders the investigative work of journalist Jeremy Scahill in the form of a '70s-style conspiracy thriller." — Variety
Posted Jan 29, 2013
54% Lovelace (2013) " Reducing an immensely disturbing, politically byzantine tale to a series of cartoonish vignettes, this celeb-studded biopic squanders a gutsy performance by Amanda Seyfried." — Variety
Posted Jan 23, 2013
77% Hors Satan (2013) " Maddening, pretentious, hypnotic and transcendent in roughly equal measure." — Variety
Posted Jan 18, 2013
29% Struck by Lightning (2013) " A mediocre coming-of-age indie." — Variety
Posted Jan 9, 2013
47% Cirque Du Soleil: Worlds Away (2012) " A bona fide high-wire act, Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away delivers towering thrills through its candy-colored 3D ode to the titular outfit's astounding acrobatics." — Variety
Posted Dec 19, 2012
33% Cheerful Weather For The Wedding (2012) " A costumer that's well named for being pleasant and conventional but little more." — Variety
Posted Nov 30, 2012
38% The ABCs of Death (2013) " The ABCs of Death is an appallingly bad concoction of disgusting shorts that run through the alphabet but really should've stopped at "A."" — Variety
Posted Oct 12, 2012
38% Stand Up Guys (2013) " Veering between buddy movie and action-thriller, Stand Up Guys is a mildly raunchy, modestly entertaining geriatric comedy." — Variety
Posted Oct 12, 2012
85% The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012) " First-time writer-director Stephen Chbosky adapts his young-adult bestseller with far more passion than skill, which suits familiar scenes of adolescent awkwardness aptly enough." — Variety
Posted Sep 10, 2012
4/4 98% Oslo, August 31st (2012) " [Displays] an invigoratingly acute understanding of the psychology of insecurity, longing, defensiveness and inward-turning rage." — Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Aug 30, 2012
92% Mosquita Y Mari (2012) " First-time writer-director Aurora Guerrero beautifully captures the fluctuating dynamics of friendship between 15-year-old girls in Mosquita y Mari." — Variety
Posted Aug 1, 2012
40% The Girl from the Naked Eye (2012) " Newcomer Jason Yee proves plenty adept at chopsocky, but his chops are nonexistent on the thesping side." — Variety
Posted Jun 15, 2012
34% Deadfall (2012) " A highly satisfying Western-cum-noir in the old tradition." — Variety
Posted Jun 7, 2012
91% Holy Motors (2012) " Only dream logic -- give or take pure cinema -- can begin to explain the wacky beauty of what goes on here." — Variety
Posted May 23, 2012
67% The Road (2012) " This low-budget shocker eventually pays off, displaying just enough narrative ingenuity to compensate for a cinematically crude and logistically sketchy deployment of the requisite blood-and-guts mayhem." — Variety
Posted May 10, 2012
96% Sleepless Night (2012) " There's no mistaking Jardin's playful mastery of the Hollywood-style action aesthetic; his movie starts in high gear and accelerates steadily from there." — Variety
Posted Apr 25, 2012
41% Silent House (2012) " The pic's true star is Martinovic's unblinking camera, which really ought to have been let loose in some other house." — Variety
Posted Mar 6, 2012
61% John Dies at the End (2013) " Give or take the titular disclosure, John Dies at the End is a thoroughly unpredictable horror-comedy -- and an immensely entertaining one, too." — Variety
Posted Feb 7, 2012
71% Payback (2012) " A rarefied conceptual docu that will appeal to a limited but highly appreciative audience." — Variety
Posted Feb 6, 2012
88% Shut Up and Play the Hits (2012) " Much like the band's self-conscious synth-pop itself, Shut Up is initially satiric but ultimately disarming in its emotional resonance." — Variety
Posted Feb 6, 2012
100% Under African Skies (2012) " Under African Skies is appreciably smarter than most celebrity musician docus." — Variety
Posted Feb 6, 2012
100% The Invisible War (2012) " An aptly infuriating expose of sexual abuse within the U.S. military." — Variety
Posted Jan 31, 2012
22% The Words (2012) " A literary film that stands to work best for those who don't read." — Variety
Posted Jan 30, 2012
93% Room 237 (2013) " One of the great movies about movies." — Variety
Posted Jan 30, 2012
93% Indie Game: The Movie (2012) " The pic scores big points by drawing a sharp distinction between corporate vidgame programmers and indies." — Variety
Posted Jan 30, 2012
20% Goats (2012) " Genial but gratingly irrelevant and none too witty." — Variety
Posted Jan 26, 2012
48% Black Rock (2013) " Straining to be a distaff "Deliverance," indie thriller Black Rock is unable to shock, much less convince." — Variety
Posted Jan 24, 2012
56% The End of Love (2013) " Too often toddles over the fine line between cute and cloying before finding its footing in the final reel." — Variety
Posted Jan 24, 2012
88% Middle of Nowhere (2012) " Solidly acted but aloof and slow as molasses." — Variety
Posted Jan 24, 2012
73% The Woman (2011) " Calculatedly ugly and undeservedly controversial." — Variety
Posted Jan 4, 2012
66% We Bought a Zoo (2011) " Warm-blooded but largely lifeless." — Variety
Posted Nov 28, 2011
44% Another Happy Day (2011) " [Mistakes] over-the-top dysfunctional family cruelty for comedy and drama." — Variety
Posted Nov 14, 2011
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