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 2.8 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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    • 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.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Amy Nicholson
    Late Night with the Devil
    This is a pressure-cooker film, an exercise in small-budget simplicity that leans on one set and one goal: Keep ’em watching.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Amy Nicholson
    Universal Language
    The tone is dry and spartan — and funny, too, if you don’t mind snorting at someone whose sons died in a marshmallow-eating competition, or giggling over the sobs of a worker weeping in a cubicle for reasons that go unexplained.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Amy Nicholson
    You're Next
    You're Next streamlines the gory stuff for something truly shocking: good characters. Not deep, mind you. But characters who are crayoned in bright enough that they're interesting even while alive.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 80 Amy Nicholson
    Don't Make Me Go
    Cho and Isaac’s stellar performances expose the gulf between familiarity and intimacy.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Amy Nicholson
    Warfare
    Warfare is strictly the facts, and those alone are terrible, brave, intense, random, tedious and captivating.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Amy Nicholson
    One Of Them Days
    Lamont trusts his movie is personality-powered. He’s calibrated each performance to fit together like a 12-piece band, and he knows that some jokes are even funnier when whispered. But I’m in the mood to speak up: I’ve missed this type of satisfying junk food. Waiter, bring me another.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Amy Nicholson
    Black Bag
    It’s a pleasure to enjoy something that’s both straight-faced and freewheeling, like a jazz pedagogue who also knows how to get a crowd dancing.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Amy Nicholson
    Whirlybird
    The doc is a fascinating insight into how individual choices can shape the news.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Amy Nicholson
    Girl Picture
    Haapasalo blesses her trio with a pop soundtrack that crescendos at the peak of a kiss, and climactic crises that are a mite too readily resolved, adamantly gracing this awkward stage of girlhood with forgiveness — not hectoring lessons.
    • 94 Metascore
    • 80 Amy Nicholson
    Inside Out
    For all the distractions and gags, Inside Out argues a more complex idea: that sometimes, Sadness deserves to steer, and that as we age, our happy memories deepen when tinted a wistful blue.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 80 Amy Nicholson
    Morning Glory
    Ford is hilarious and brooding, deeply wrinkled and deeply intimidating. He's got the best lines, courtesy of screenwriter Aline Brosh McKenna (of the repellent "27 Dresses" and the much better "The Devil Wears Prada").
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Amy Nicholson
    Sasquatch Sunset
    Are we looking for the human in the Sasquatch? Or for the Sasquatch in us? The movie works either way, but in its refusal to hew to a familiar plot trajectory, it holds up a mirror to our own narcissism.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 80 Amy Nicholson
    Nyad
    Diana wants our respect — and by the end of the movie, she’s earned it. While she’s one of the prickliest protagonists you’ll see this year, she’s so raw and earnest and apologetically herself that you adore her anyway — from the safe distance of the screen.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Amy Nicholson
    Strawberry Mansion
    This is a movie about letting the mind roam.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Amy Nicholson
    Flora and Son
    This is Carney’s saltiest ode to creative expression — and, peculiarly, his most relatable.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Amy Nicholson
    Entertainment
    Entertainment is a painful, poetic watch.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 80 Amy Nicholson
    Permission
    Permission is a small story made with big performances from leads Stevens and Hall, and while it hasn’t gotten the promotional push for audiences to pay attention, people lucky enough to stumble across it will fall for everyone involved, and commit to keeping tabs on Crano’s career.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 80 Amy Nicholson
    The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2
    Every frame of silent, lip-biting, pent-up tension in the series has been holding its breath for this -- a 600-minute soap opera suddenly exploding into a Grindhouse slasher.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Amy Nicholson
    Selah and The Spades
    Writer-director Tayarisha Poe’s cold and stylish debut, commands attention. More specifically, Simone’s Selah seizes it.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 80 Amy Nicholson
    Unfrosted
    The jokes spill forth so fast that there’s no time for the shtick to get soggy.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Amy Nicholson
    I Used to Be Funny
    The perceptive dramedy I Used to Be Funny features a mic-drop performance by Rachel Sennott as a rising stand-up comedian derailed by a vague, internet-viral crime.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Amy Nicholson
    Joe
    Joe is Cage's periodic reminder that he's one of his generation's great talents.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 80 Amy Nicholson
    Anonymous
    Why is Emmerich elbowing his way into the conversation about Shakespearean authorship? Because the debate is explosive - and he can't resist packing on a few more pounds of dynamite on his confident drama of incest, greed and beheadings.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Amy Nicholson
    The Surfer
    The grief in this film is relatable to anyone who’s realized how hard it is to go home again, whether that means a newly gentrified neighborhood or simply the security of what a middle-class wage used to afford.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 80 Amy Nicholson
    The Expendables 2
    This over-the-top sequel caters to the lowest common denominator in the best possible way, and it's so fully committed to brainless bombast that it muscles audiences to applaud by sheer force of will.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 80 Amy Nicholson
    Bad Hair
    Costume designer Ceci’s ensembles and Scott Kuzio’s production design are spot-on. Just as impressive is Simien’s steady handle on his serio-comic tone, at once sly, resonant, and horrific.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 80 Amy Nicholson
    M3GAN 2.0
    It’s a magpie movie that’s happy to give audiences the tinselly things they want — i.e., two robots clobbering the Wi-Fi out of each other. But Johnstone creates openings for his own shaggy sense of humor. I’m excited to keep tabs on the promising New Zealander.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 80 Amy Nicholson
    MacGruber
    What makes Forte so funny is that he stalks through the flick cocksure and utterly deadpan.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Amy Nicholson
    Double Play: James Benning and Richard Linklater
    It's less interesting watching them do what they both feel they have to do -- talk about their craft -- especially as both give off the prickly energy of artists who would rather create than explain. They're more comfortable asking one another questions, even though the answers are shrugged off humbly.
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