Farran Smith Nehme

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New York Post
For 326 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 39% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 57% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 1.9 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Farran Smith Nehme's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 64
Highest review score: 100 Love & Friendship
Lowest review score: 0 No One Lives
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 215 out of 326
  2. Mixed: 62 out of 326
  3. Negative: 49 out of 326
326 movie reviews
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Farran Smith Nehme
    Only the Young
    The film thwarts any pat expectations you might glean from the town's bad economy and these checkered backgrounds. The teenagers are refreshingly gentle and clean-living; they don't drink, they don't swear and they certainly aren't having sex. All three are religious, a fact that is neither emphasized nor underplayed.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 50 Farran Smith Nehme
    Francofonia
    Most of the film, while handsome to look at, doesn’t rise above this level of obviousness.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 88 Farran Smith Nehme
    Dior and I
    The heart of Dior and I is with these seamstresses and cutters, artists in their own right.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 63 Farran Smith Nehme
    Jason Becker: Not Dead Yet
    Oddly, though, for a film so dedicated to celebrating what he can still accomplish, his early performing career gets a lot more emphasis than the music still being composed. And that's a pity, because what little we hear is entrancing.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 63 Farran Smith Nehme
    Gabrielle
    Its sentiment is appealing, though, and its sincerity doesn’t cloy.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 100 Farran Smith Nehme
    More Than Honey
    Without any preachiness, this magically beautiful film urges us to take better care of the bees, and honor the irreplaceable things that they do for us.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Farran Smith Nehme
    Post Tenebras Lux
    For those willing to lock into Reygadas’ mad wavelength, the beauty is worth the puzzlement.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 63 Farran Smith Nehme
    On the Job
    The firefights and chase scenes, no matter how much they adhere to genre, seem more real than the people trapped in the corruption.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 63 Farran Smith Nehme
    Life of Riley
    Filmed on abstract sets, it’s full of playful touches, such as lines delivered in front of a screen that looks like a comic-strip panel, and glimpses of a mole puppet popping out from a fake lawn.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 63 Farran Smith Nehme
    Happy Christmas
    Mumblecore founding father Joe Swanberg is back with this amiable off-season tale of Chicago millennials and their dissatisfactions. It offers his characteristic you-are-there visuals, rackety sound and meandering dialogue, often with appealing results.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Farran Smith Nehme
    In Another Country
    The conceit is slight, but Hong's playful structure conceals sharp observations about fantasies, communication, and how foreigners and natives interact.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 63 Farran Smith Nehme
    Hannah Arendt
    It’s involving, as biopics go, but the shattering debates that still swirl around Arendt’s view of the Holocaust are relegated to walk-ons.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 88 Farran Smith Nehme
    You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet
    There is something both mischievous and moving about a world-famous director who, closing on his 10th decade, designs a movie that celebrates his actors: their varying ages, their versatility, their heart.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 63 Farran Smith Nehme
    How to Make Money Selling Drugs
    This film is best when arguing that drugs should be treated as a multibillion-dollar commodity business in need of regulation, and not as a moral failing.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 88 Farran Smith Nehme
    Nuclear Nation
    Nuclear Nation is likely to attract those who already oppose such power plants. But supporters should see it, too, if only to hear the opposition’s arguments. The film raises issues that aren’t going away.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Farran Smith Nehme
    Sparrows Dance
    Given that the opening shot shows the heroine on the toilet, what a nice surprise to find that this is a pure love story, told with elegance and simplicity on a low budget.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 38 Farran Smith Nehme
    Brotherly Love
    Despite the blazing guns, this script is not so tough.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 50 Farran Smith Nehme
    Eva Hesse
    Blair has a colorless, weirdly teenage delivery that doesn’t convey Hesse’s vivid, brilliant personality. It is odd to watch a documentary where the subject becomes more interesting when she is discussed by other people.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 100 Farran Smith Nehme
    Compliance
    The actors in Compliance perform with thorough and chilling sincerity.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 50 Farran Smith Nehme
    The Kindergarten Teacher
    Israeli director Nadav Lapid uses a well-worn concept — a lonely little boy is taken under a teacher’s wing — to create a slow, creepy movie.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 63 Farran Smith Nehme
    If You Don't, I Will
    It’s sprightly, funny and at times piercingly sad.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 50 Farran Smith Nehme
    Una Noche
    Una Noche is intriguing enough, however, to make you hope that both Mulloy and her actors are heard from again, sooner rather than later.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 63 Farran Smith Nehme
    The Childhood of a Leader
    It’s an ambitious, often arresting film, but it lacks cohesion, and the seesawing plot and motivations seem more indecisive than mysterious.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 63 Farran Smith Nehme
    Songs My Brothers Taught Me
    Where Zhao excels is in the range of emotions she gets from a mostly nonprofessional cast.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Farran Smith Nehme
    The Lesson
    There’s a superficial resemblance to the Dardenne brothers’ “Two Days, One Night,” and like that film it has a strong lead; Gosheva’s Nade is prickly, and no suffering saint.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 50 Farran Smith Nehme
    The New Black
    The New Black often feels like a polished but uninspired op-ed.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 63 Farran Smith Nehme
    American Promise
    It’s a baggy movie, with some things (such as whether Idris taking Ritalin in high school improved his performance) unexplained, and it may appeal most to those raising kids themselves.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Farran Smith Nehme
    The New Rijksmuseum
    Hoogendijk ends the movie just before the museum reopens; but her last, soaring image is a stirring vision of what made all the agita worthwhile.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Farran Smith Nehme
    The Wall
    The Wall winds up as a captivating fable, an end-times scenario that’s more about the survival of the spirit than the body.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Farran Smith Nehme
    Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
    If this documentary is swift and witty, that’s in part because it relies heavily on clips of Orson Welles talking. And oh, how Welles could talk, that beautiful voice wrapping itself around tall tales and wine commercials with equal grace.
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