Amy Nicholson

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For 775 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 52% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 46% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 2.7 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Amy Nicholson's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 63
Highest review score: 100 Frankenstein
Lowest review score: 0 Melania
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 383 out of 775
  2. Mixed: 325 out of 775
  3. Negative: 67 out of 775
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    • 44 Metascore
    • 60 Amy Nicholson
    Pain Hustlers
    The movie is constrained by its own conscience.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 60 Amy Nicholson
    Sicario
    Villeneuve's proven he's got a strong punch. The trouble is, he barely aims.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 83 Amy Nicholson
    Arrival
    Adams’s clear-eyed, open-minded doctor forces us to ask how much we’re willing to communicate.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Amy Nicholson
    Weapons
    A former sketch comic, Cregger knows how to work a crowd. The combination of his assurance and his characters’ confusion is wonderful in the moment, as though you’re listening to a spiel from someone who sounds crazy but might be making all the sense in the world.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Amy Nicholson
    Everything Everywhere All at Once
    Despite their wundercabinet of delights, the filmmakers most want to celebrate human beings in all their contradictions. Each of us, the movie says, is capable of everything.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 85 Amy Nicholson
    Coco
    Most of all, Coco hums with the idea that we’re kept alive by the stories people tell about us when we’re gone. Whether Coco itself will be an eternal story is iffy. But I’m glad it’s with us today.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Amy Nicholson
    Bridge of Spies
    What Spielberg seems to want most from this respectable lark is for audiences to notice the parallels between the 1950s and today.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Amy Nicholson
    Foxcatcher
    Foxcatcher is merely a very, very good character study with acting so fine that it's frustrating it's not in the service of a real, emotional wallop.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Amy Nicholson
    Warfare
    Warfare is strictly the facts, and those alone are terrible, brave, intense, random, tedious and captivating.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 67 Amy Nicholson
    Jackie
    Pablo Larraín's Jackie is an elegy to two slandered traits: self-consciousness and superficiality.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 100 Amy Nicholson
    Raw
    Ducournau has made a beautiful film about terrible horrors.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 70 Amy Nicholson
    The Last Rifleman
    Corny, yes. But charming, too.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Amy Nicholson
    American Fiction
    To make good on his movie’s message, Jefferson is determined to give space to the moments of Monk’s life that don’t hinge on race at all.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 88 Amy Nicholson
    Memoir of a Snail
    Memoir of a Snail, by the Oscar-winning Australian animator Adam Elliot, is a grubby delight, a stop-motion charmer that feels like falling into a dumpster and discovering an orchid.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Amy Nicholson
    Devotion
    As an intellectual dismantling of white savior narratives, Devotion is smartly done; as an enjoyable heartwarmer to watch with your uncle, it’s stiff when it should soar.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Amy Nicholson
    Goodnight Mommy
    Goodnight Mommy is a well-crafted cheat with a killer punch.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Amy Nicholson
    28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
    If we lived in a rational world, Fiennes’ bravura comic-manic performance would earn him an Oscar nomination.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 90 Amy Nicholson
    Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
    Rian Johnson’s darkest, funniest and best installment yet in his three-film detective series.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 90 Amy Nicholson
    Knock Down the House
    Knock Down the House has a clear political agenda. It wants to promote the hard work, courage and progressive policies of these women, who have all experienced financial hardship. Still, the film lets its subjects do the talking instead of cluttering things with statistics.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Amy Nicholson
    The Christophers
    Out of magnanimity, I’ll liken this trifle to a Rothko. The more I think about The Christophers, the more I imagine it has interesting layers. But I won’t fault anyone who just sees a simple square.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 50 Amy Nicholson
    Passages
    The misery unfurls in a straight timeline of dramatic scenes that leap over the lived-in moments that make up a relationship.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 63 Amy Nicholson
    Housekeeping for Beginners
    It’s hard to fault Goran Stolevski’s “Housekeeping for Beginners” for being chaotic and miserable. That’s the mood he’s after — and he captures it with such assurance that the film is a tough watch.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Amy Nicholson
    Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens
    Star Wars: The Force Awakens steers the franchise back to its popcorn origins. It's not a Bible; it's a bantamweight blast. And that's just as it should be: a good movie, nothing more.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Amy Nicholson
    White God
    When the violence gets unbearable, take comfort in the troop of trainers on the sidelines who prove that, for now, man and beast still make a good team.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 100 Amy Nicholson
    Finders Keepers
    Most docs are lucky to have one wild character. The phenomenal Finders Keepers has two.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 90 Amy Nicholson
    A Still Small Voice
    It’s human and messy — and it’s divine.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 70 Amy Nicholson
    Song Sung Blue
    Song Sung Blue couldn’t be less cool. But the Sardinas were completely sincere and Jackman and Hudson honor their innocence by playing them straight.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 90 Amy Nicholson
    Babygirl
    Babygirl’s erotic scenes are hot. But really, Reijn is doing her damnedest to get a moral rise out of us. Romy and Samuel have safe words, yet our own national conversation about sexual ethics gets tongue-tied whenever it tries to define right and wrong. Instead, we have Reijn asking uncomfortable questions.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Amy Nicholson
    Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work
    For the small but enthusiastic documentary crowd and the comic's diehard fans, it's a must-see.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 67 Amy Nicholson
    Loving
    Negga, an Ethiopian-born, Irish-raised Hollywood newcomer, gives an Oscar-worthy performance. She's so still and powerful, she gives the film a depth the script doesn't earn. I can't think of the film without thinking of her gaze, and I can't think of that gaze without admiring the film more than it deserves.
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