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Nashville Scene

Nashville Scene is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Craig D. Lindsey, Jim Ridley, Noel Murray, Rob Nelson
Rating
Title/Year
Author
1
Bad Reputation (2018)

Steve Erickson

Bad Reputation makes clear that - even in an age when rock music is growing increasingly unfashionable - Jett is utterly sincere about the idealism and bravado of her biggest hit, "I Love Rock 'n' Roll."
Posted Sep 20, 2018
2
Life Itself (2018)

Craig D. Lindsey

Fogelman tries to tug on the heartstrings by giving us a story full of people who go through some harrowing, emotional ordeals, but it constantly rings hollow.
Posted Sep 20, 2018
3
Juliet, Naked (2018)

Craig D. Lindsey

The movie seems to consist of a lot of loose strands that go nowhere or end up being discarded. Fortunately, Juliet, Naked still gets the point across that emotionally stunted men should grow up and appreciate what they have.
Posted Sep 6, 2018
4
Three Identical Strangers (2018)

Steve Erickson

Very entertaining on its surface, but its undercurrents might make you a bit queasy.
Posted Aug 9, 2018
5
BlacKkKlansman (2018)

Craig D. Lindsey

Lee has once again cleverly flexed his genre-bending muscles. Much as he did with 2015's underrated farcical/musical whatzit Chi-Raq, the director melds comedy and tragedy to come up with entertaining and thought-provoking cinema.
Posted Aug 9, 2018
6
Sorry to Bother You (2018)

Michael Sicinski

It's a comedy with a lot on its mind, to be sure. But what Riley has accomplished with this film is notable because of all the ways it could fall flat but doesn't.
Posted Jul 12, 2018
7
Damsel (2018)

Steve Erickson

Everything here is mashed together into a postmodern pileup that thinks it's politically progressive and smart but really isn't.
Posted Jul 5, 2018
8
The Rider (2018)

Craig D. Lindsey

It's so quiet that at times it feels like it doesn't want to disturb any other movies playing in neighboring theaters. But you'll definitely be swept away by its beautiful spirit - if you just hold on.
Posted May 17, 2018
9
Lean on Pete (2018)

Steve Erickson

Without the pop pleasures of Sean Baker's The Florida Project, it offers a similar critique of contemporary America, very convincingly acted and directed with a fine eye.
Posted Apr 19, 2018
10
Foxtrot (2018)

Steve Erickson

Foxtrot plays like a chamber drama with an absurd penchant for tragedy.
Posted Mar 22, 2018
11
The Death of Stalin (2018)

Craig D. Lindsey

Once again, if you know how Iannucci works, you can expect Stalin to be as hilariously foul-mouthed as his previous works.
Posted Mar 22, 2018
12
Red Sparrow (2018)

Craig D. Lindsey

Although Red Sparrow succeeds at being the sort of routinely paranoid, melodramatic secret-agent yarn that used to drop back in the Reagan era, it overdoes it in the brutality department.
Posted Mar 1, 2018
13
Dallas Buyers Club (2013)

Steve Erickson

It works as a buddy movie of sorts, as well as a story of one man heroically defying the system, but it's never as enlightened as it thinks it is.
Posted Feb 16, 2018
14
A Room in Town (Une Chambre en Ville) (1982)

Steve Erickson

The colorful cinematography and production design (a strength of even his weakest work) heighten rather than detract from the narrative's downbeat nature...
Posted Feb 16, 2018
15
The Overnight (2015)

Steve Erickson

In only 78 minutes, this eye-widening, startlingly honest little movie says more about love, and the difficulties of keeping it fresh, than most rom-coms with 10 times its budget.
Posted Feb 12, 2018
16
The Neon Demon (2016)

Steve Erickson

The Neon Demon is just as derivative as Drive, but it treats its influences in a more diffuse manner.
Posted Feb 12, 2018
17
American Honey (2016)

Steve Erickson

You may hate it, but you're unlikely to feel blasé after coming out the other end of Arnold's vision of America.
Posted Feb 12, 2018
18
The Assassin (2015)

Steve Erickson

You're not likely to see a better film this year.
Posted Feb 12, 2018
19
Goodnight Mommy (Ich seh, Ich seh) (2015)

Steve Erickson

Directors Franz (Seidl's wife and a collaborator on his scripts) and Fiala have basically made arthouse torture porn.
Posted Feb 12, 2018
20
Under The Sun (2016)

Steve Erickson

... a film about the human cost of authoritarianism, as well as a postmodern lesson in the value of questioning the reality of what we watch.
Posted Feb 12, 2018
21
Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words (2016)

Steve Erickson

Even if I remain unconvinced of the greatness of most of his music, Eat That Question makes the best possible case for his merits in other areas.
Posted Feb 12, 2018
22
The Salesman (Forushande) (2017)

Steve Erickson

See The Salesman for an expertly crafted lesson in cultural differences.
Posted Feb 12, 2018
23
Jackie (2016)

Steve Erickson

Portman's performance does hint at an inner strength, particularly in the magazine interview, but the script betrays her.
Posted Feb 12, 2018
24
Moonlight (2016)

Steve Erickson

Moonlight demands to be seen on the big screen: It has a physicality and a weight, and its view of Miami is dreamlike and trippy without overplaying the neon and pastel colors that tend to dominate films and TV shows set in that city.
Posted Feb 12, 2018
25
A Quiet Passion (2017)

Steve Erickson

It's no accident that A Quiet Passion evokes late avant-modernist women like Akerman and Huillet.
Posted Feb 12, 2018
26
After the Storm (Umi yori mo mada fukaku) (2017)

Steve Erickson

[Director Kore-eda Hirokazu's] work is no mere nostalgia act...
Posted Feb 12, 2018
27
Raw (2017)

Steve Erickson

The horror here isn't limited to expectations about women's bodies and the self-destructive things women do as a response, but it starts there. It ends up far beyond there, in a wickedly comic exploration of family ties.
Posted Feb 12, 2018
28
Maudie (2017)

Steve Erickson

Maudie ultimately just seems like a quaint exercise, more like visiting a history museum than watching a woman who truly lived.
Posted Feb 12, 2018
29
The Beguiled (2017)

Steve Erickson

If Coppola puts a feminist spin on the narrative, emphasizing the difficulty of expressing female desire without endangerment, she's not far off from the original.
Posted Feb 12, 2018
30
City of Ghosts (2017)

Steve Erickson

... it's hard to do justice to a film that incorporates such difficult material without ... well, acknowledging its very real difficulty. But the rewards of City of Ghosts are worth it.
Posted Feb 12, 2018
31
The Challenge (2017)

Steve Erickson

For its first half-hour, The Challenge gets by on visual style alone, and Ancarani is obviously extremely talented. But after that, it begins to feel increasingly shallow.
Posted Feb 12, 2018
32
The Nile Hilton Incident (2017)

Steve Erickson

Fares delivers one of this year's most impressive male performances so far, one that lifts this film above the neo-noir clichés that it could have suffered from.
Posted Feb 12, 2018
33
Beach Rats (2017)

Steve Erickson

This is territory far more ambitious than American independent narrative has covered recently, and it marks [Writer-director Eliza] Hittman as a major new voice in our national cinema.
Posted Feb 12, 2018
34
The Diary Of A Teenage Girl (2015)

Steve Erickson

Both in her strength and confusion, Minnie - played by British actress Bel Powley - is a really believable teenager.
Posted Feb 12, 2018
35
Time Out Of Mind (2015)

Steve Erickson

Writer-director Oren Moverman takes care to ground his film in the vivid details of New York street life, and more care went into the sound design of Time Out of Mind than any other U.S. film I've seen this year.
Posted Feb 12, 2018
36
Dior and I (2015)

Steve Erickson

The excess detailed in the Saint Laurent films is well behind us - which is good for Simons' health, but perhaps not so good for documentary viewers looking for something beyond formulaic structures.
Posted Feb 12, 2018
37
Mr. Turner (2014)

Steve Erickson

... it's the British director's best film in years.
Posted Feb 12, 2018
38
Seymour: An Introduction (2015)

Steve Erickson

Academy Award or not, Hawke and Bernstein make a better case than Chazelle and J.K. Simmons.
Posted Feb 12, 2018
39
Finding Fela! (2014)

Steve Erickson

Ultimately, Finding Fela loses its narrative backbone when it can no longer rely on gifted footage and must focus on the actual man.
Posted Feb 12, 2018
40
Foxcatcher (2014)

Steve Erickson

You can see equally tawdry true-crime dramas all day long on cable TV, and their directors don't take 134 minutes or use a showily desaturated palette to tell them.
Posted Feb 12, 2018
41
Stranger by the Lake (2014)

Steve Erickson

... many of my qualms evaporated in the movie's brutally suspenseful final 10 minutes...
Posted Feb 12, 2018
42
Actress (2014)

Steve Erickson

Robert Greene's past two documentaries - Kati with an "i", Fake It So Real - were impressive, but they didn't prepare one for the leap he's made with Actress, which opens Friday at The Belcourt.
Posted Feb 12, 2018
43
Love Is Strange (2014)

Steve Erickson

... in subtle ways, Love Is Strange keeps pointing out the traces of homophobia that exist in large and small degrees in our supposedly "post-gay" culture.
Posted Feb 12, 2018
44
The Dog (2014)

Steve Erickson

Cautionary tales are rarely this exhilarating.
Posted Feb 12, 2018
45
The Lunchbox (2014)

Steve Erickson

This may sound like unpromising sitcom material, but The Lunchbox digs deeper...
Posted Feb 12, 2018
46
Palo Alto (2014)

Steve Erickson

While not quite at the level of Richard Linklater's Dazed and Confused or Olivier Assayas' Cold Water, it comes closer than most contemporary American teen films dare.
Posted Feb 12, 2018
47
The Dance of Reality (2014)

Steve Erickson

... an unexpected and appealing comeback.
Posted Feb 12, 2018
48
Omar (2014)

Steve Erickson

There are no clear-cut good guys or bad guys in Palestinian director Hany Abu-Assad's stinging vision; no one in Omar exits with clean hands, which helps lift the movie above its grounding in the basics of film noir.
Posted Feb 12, 2018
49
Particle Fever (2014)

Steve Erickson

The movie could have been as dry as a NOVA episode, and indeed its weakest moments carry an arid whiff of PBS infotainment. For the most part, though, Particle Fever both captures and evokes the human tension behind the experiment.
Posted Feb 12, 2018
50
A Touch of Sin (2013)

Steve Erickson

[Director Jia Zhangke] proves himself here a master of pacing.
Posted Feb 12, 2018