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Nick Rogers

Tomatometer-approved critic
Biography:

I have been covering arts & entertainment, as well as writing general features, for the past 13 years at various print outlets in Illinois and have been reviewing films since 1995.

Favorites:

BEST OF RECENT YEARS - There Will Be Blood, United 93, A History of Violence, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, About Schmidt, The Royal Tenenbaums, Traffic, American Beauty, Saving Private Ryan, L.A. Confidential, Sling BladeGUILTY PLEASURES - Deep Rising, Mouse Hunt, Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo, From Dusk Till Dawn, Jackass: The Movie, Road House, XXX

Location:

Lafayette, IN

Reviews

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Supernova (2000) 12% 3/5 EDIT “Still a frustratingly and sometimes very foolishly stitched-together affair. But if the failures of "Supernova" have many fathers, then so must the modest successes of a film with great ideas pulsing in its vital organs.” – Midwest Film Journal Mar 11, 2026 Full Review Somewhere in Time (1980) 50% 2/5 EDIT “Silly and tepid. But on the other hand, you may never laugh harder at a narrative circumstance involving a penny than you will here.” – Midwest Film Journal Mar 9, 2026 Full Review War Machine (2026) 69% 3/5 EDIT “Excepting the risible rah-rah recruitment of its final five minutes, "War Machine" is a reasonably diverting riff on "Predator," proof that Alan Ritchson can carry a film, and a surprisingly solid exploration of military depression.” – Midwest Film Journal Mar 9, 2026 Full Review The Boy Friend (1971) 82% 2/5 EDIT “Ken Russell’s claim to love musicals may well be true, but it’s difficult to glean when the camera is often positioned as if the performers are facing a firing squad. At its best, it approximates Busby but it's mostly just busy.” – Midwest Film Journal Feb 25, 2026 Full Review Gypsy (1962) 71% 3.5/5 EDIT “Given the deplorability and depth it mines for Rose, "Gypsy" retains as much of the shaken-family structure of Shakespeare as it can while sticking within its musical milieu to (generally speaking) send ’em home happy.” – Midwest Film Journal Feb 25, 2026 Full Review Damn Yankees (1958) 80% 3/5 EDIT “An uncharacteristically restrained point-and-shoot that at least often points at greatness. It may not be a perfect game, but Ray Walston, Gwen Verdon and Bob Fosse make it a quality start.” – Midwest Film Journal Feb 25, 2026 Full Review The Pajama Game (1957) 81% 2.5/5 EDIT “The notion here seems to be how thin the fabric can be stretched before it’s recalled for material defect, and "The Pajama Game" needs to spread out its manipulations and machinations more strategically throughout the story. ” – Midwest Film Journal Feb 25, 2026 Full Review Brigadoon (1954) 80% 3.5/5 EDIT “Chockablock with clean, crisp and thoughtful choreography, a nice balance of swoon and sorrow, and a solid mixture of light supernaturalism and weighty existentialism.” – Midwest Film Journal Feb 25, 2026 Full Review Guys and Dolls (1955) 91% 3/5 EDIT “Conflicts are few and feather-light, and the film unwisely takes its foot off the gas as its coasts to 2 ½ hours. But its pleasures are otherwise so voluminous and its moral acrobatics so entertaining that it is hard to complain about its faults.” – Midwest Film Journal Feb 25, 2026 Full Review Smilla's Sense of Snow (1997) 53% 2.5/5 EDIT “Kudos for a goofily watchable story that ends in about the last place you’d expect given the introductory murder premise. At the same time, it squanders its murderer's row of supporting performers.” – Midwest Film Journal Feb 18, 2026 Full Review The Shop Around the Corner (1940) 99% 4.5/5 EDIT “To use the film's own dialogue, "a very interesting mixture of poetry and meanness" makes this high-concept romance excel — often yielding generous gravitas and humanity as engaging as the amorous sparks.” – Midwest Film Journal Feb 12, 2026 Full Review The Mortal Storm (1940) 100% 3.5/5 EDIT “Although melodramatic, this remains a direct, affecting story about the vast personal cost of individual deference to deafening group rhetoric. Neither does it waste the spark of James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan's final collaboration.” – Midwest Film Journal Feb 12, 2026 Full Review The Naked Spur (1953) 100% 4/5 EDIT “Another excellent Western from Anthony Mann, exploring metal as the coin of the realm, whether collected in a pan you hold in water or lodged in the pan near your brain.” – Midwest Film Journal Feb 12, 2026 Full Review How the West Was Won (1962) 85% 2.5/5 EDIT “At least in its contemporary presentation, it feels like sitting at a very long, intermittently impressive museum movie. They called it Cinerama because there’s nothing sexy about what it feels like: a diorama.” – Midwest Film Journal Feb 12, 2026 Full Review The Mechanic (1972) 50% 3.5/5 EDIT “The film taps into a simultaneously bespoke and bothersome nihilism at the nexus of American violence, and it's surely among the more psychologically complex roles Bronson ever inhabited as the lead in a stateside production.” – Midwest Film Journal Feb 9, 2026 Full Review Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (2025) 83% 3.5/5 EDIT “Gore Verbinski is back with a freewheeling odyssey to save the world that delivers no-fear cavalier, renegade, steer-clear filmmaking to leave you feeling pretty psyched.” – Midwest Film Journal Feb 9, 2026 Full Review Fury (1936) 95% 4/5 EDIT “A searing story of retaliation with a less obvious approach. While the last scene is a clear concession, there’s something delicious about the way this Oscar-nominated story roots its third act in its hero's s own ignorance and unlikely redemption.” – Midwest Film Journal Feb 2, 2026 Full Review Libeled Lady (1936) 80% 2.5/5 EDIT “What might have once hit heights of hilarity now feels like a modest plateau, despite a lively pace. It just works itself into a fizz and then is left to sit out, with an ending that doesn’t even try to erase all the complications it creates” – Midwest Film Journal Feb 2, 2026 Full Review Northwest Passage (1940) 78% 2/5 EDIT “Acknowledging it can be a fill-in-the-blank complaint for Hollywood films of its era like "Northwest Passage" to cite technical aptitude but a boring pace and rampant racism, well … so it goes.” – Midwest Film Journal Feb 2, 2026 Full Review Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) 97% 4.5/5 EDIT “A masterclass of thematic and narrative tension. But it's also one of Spencer Tracy's most recognizably human roles — a broken man strangely reinvigorated by a chance to win against mankind's rot at a scale smaller than the war he was powerless to stop.” – Midwest Film Journal Feb 2, 2026 Full Review Rounders (1998) 63% 2.5/5 EDIT “It is certifiably insane for "Rounders" to anchor its narrative with two generational talents in the lead and then trample over their excellent efforts to convey context, or sometimes even just text, without incessant narration. ” – Midwest Film Journal Jan 28, 2026 Full Review Dante's Peak (1997) 34% 3.5/5 EDIT “The volcano’s eruption and its aftermath are the obvious draws here, excitingly realized through effects supervisor Patrick McClung’s measured combination of miniature photography and judicious CGI. ” – Midwest Film Journal Jan 27, 2026 Full Review Killers (2014) 71% 2.5/5 EDIT “A story of unheroic bloodshed, as it were, "Killers" aspires for profundity but just feels prolonged, a what-if / yes-and exercise in empty nihilism that’s slick but shallow.” – Midwest Film Journal Jan 27, 2026 Full Review A Private Life (2025) 80% 2.5/5 EDIT “It's not unlike if Nancy Meyers attempted to loosely remake "Caché." Despite a handful of entertaining moments, it simply lacks that certain je nai sais quoi.” – Midwest Film Journal Jan 27, 2026 Full Review Evil Under the Sun (1982) 86% 2.5/5 EDIT “Acknowledging Hercule Poirot's eccentricities are part of the equation, "Evil Under the Sun" spends entirely too long indulging them. Once it shifts from "The White Poirotus" to the actual mystery, the film improves.” – Midwest Film Journal Jan 26, 2026 Full Review
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