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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    • 75 Metascore
    • 100 Amy Nicholson
    Polite Society
    It’s a delight that borrows from everything — westerns, musicals, heist capers, horror, Jane Austen and James Bond — to build its writer and director, Nida Manzoor, into a promising new thing: a first-time filmmaker impatient to evolve cultural representation from the last few years of self-conscious vitamins into crowd-pleasing candy.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 100 Amy Nicholson
    War Pony
    A stellar debut.
    • 95 Metascore
    • 100 Amy Nicholson
    Rocks
    The film wants to prove that hope isn’t fools gold. And when it does, Rocks glows.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 100 Amy Nicholson
    Back to the Future
    Back to the Future just might be Hollywood’s richest, cleverest blockbuster — and its attention to detail deserves to be re-celebrated.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Amy Nicholson
    Janet Planet
    Baker’s delicate spellbinders more often leave their themes unspoken. Her characters grapple with longings and a need to prove their worth, but they rarely share their struggles out loud.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Amy Nicholson
    Return to Seoul
    Return to Seoul is a startling and uneasy wonder, a film that feels like a beautiful sketch of a tornado headed directly toward your house.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 100 Amy Nicholson
    The Ballad of Wallis Island
    I’d call “Wallis Island” a contender for the most quotable film of the year but there are so many good lines stacked on top of each other, and so much giggling on top of that, it’s impossible to keep up with Key’s wordplay.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 100 Amy Nicholson
    The LEGO Batman Movie
    With The LEGO Batman Movie, a shiny, irresistible delight, blockbuster flicks have perfected their ideal form.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 100 Amy Nicholson
    Cartel Land
    Cartel Land is interested in how idealism becomes corrupt.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 100 Amy Nicholson
    Frankenstein
    This deservedly anticipated Frankenstein transforms that loneliness into stunning tableaux of Victor and his immortal Creature tethered together by their mutual self-loathing. One man’s heart never turned on. One can’t get his heart to turn off. Ours breaks.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 Amy Nicholson
    The Handmaiden
    Park Chan-wook’s The Handmaiden is a jaw-dropping, pulse-quickening mash-up.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 100 Amy Nicholson
    Magic Farm
    Every scene has a delight.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 100 Amy Nicholson
    The Second Mother
    As we switch sympathies from scene to scene, Muylaert forces us to think big about the clash between idealism and acceptance, a philosophical war that spills beyond the walls of this small story into every corner of our own lives.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 100 Amy Nicholson
    Finders Keepers
    Most docs are lucky to have one wild character. The phenomenal Finders Keepers has two.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 100 Amy Nicholson
    Eddington
    Ari Aster’s Eddington is such a superb social satire about contemporary America that I want to bury it in the desert for 20 years. More distance will make it easier to laugh.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 100 Amy Nicholson
    Barry
    Barry's questions are powerful whether asked by a future president or a future janitor. The script is great no matter who it's about — it's just that fewer curiosity-seekers would give it a watch were it about someone else.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 100 Amy Nicholson
    Raw
    Ducournau has made a beautiful film about terrible horrors.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 100 Amy Nicholson
    The Overnighters
    Jesse Moss's documentary The Overnighters is a heart-wrencher about the clash between economics and ethics. Its story sounds like the sort of dry news blurb you'd skim over in the Sunday paper but unfolds into an epic tragedy.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 100 Amy Nicholson
    Spy
    It's a comedy of exasperation where, for once, the joke isn't on McCarthy, but on everyone who can't see her skills.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 100 Amy Nicholson
    The Blue Trail
    This is a rebellious, empathetic adventure story about a grandmother who catches on that her society needs to learn how to think freely.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 100 Amy Nicholson
    The Guest
    A transcendent comic chiller, when The Guest's characters are in peril we actually care, and Wingard respectfully makes the kills clean and quick.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Amy Nicholson
    Red Army
    Red Army is a riveting look behind the Iron Curtain.
    • 99 Metascore
    • 100 Amy Nicholson
    Moonlight
    Jenkins has made something astonishing: a film with immaculate craft that, at the same time, feels spontaneous, even tentative, as if it could panic that it’s revealed too much and close the curtains.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Amy Nicholson
    Sinners
    Sinners works more like a pop song than a grand statement, the kind of deceptively simple high-level craft that few people can pull off.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 100 Amy Nicholson
    Casting JonBenét
    Casting JonBenét, my favorite film at this year's Sundance, shows a director in full control.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 100 Amy Nicholson
    The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
    Most astonishingly, with the franchise's powerful climax, Lawrence has managed to align her parallel Hollywood lives and reinvent the prestigious popcorn flick, a crowd-pleaser with intelligent class.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Amy Nicholson
    The Vast of Night
    Patterson trusts that chemistry will compensate for a gentle thriller that chooses to impress with ingenuity and charm instead of special effects.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 100 Amy Nicholson
    American Ultra
    Nima Nourizadeh’s American Ultra is a bloody valentine attached to a bomb. It’s violent, brash, inventive and horrific, and perhaps the most romantic film of the year.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 100 Amy Nicholson
    Anomalisa
    Kaufman builds an emotional world we're nervous to enter, one we're already living in.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 100 Amy Nicholson
    Blue Ruin
    As an action film — which in small bursts it is — Blue Ruin is disquieting and raw, like Commando turned inside out.
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