Frank S. Nugent

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The New York Times
For 45 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 46% higher than the average critic
  • 0% same as the average critic
  • 54% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 12.4 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Frank S. Nugent's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 78
Highest review score: 100 Show Boat
Lowest review score: 30 Bringing Up Baby
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 35 out of 45
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 45
  3. Negative: 1 out of 45
45 movie reviews
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    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Frank S. Nugent
    Desire
    You will not, in Desire, find a great story, but you will discover one that has been splendidly told. If it is a Lubitsch production, constantly highlighted by those indefinable touches of his, still one should not overlook the skill of its director, Frank Borzage; its excellent camera work, or the performances.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 70 Frank S. Nugent
    The Awful Truth
    Awfully unimportant, but it is also one of the more laughable screen comedies of 1937.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Frank S. Nugent
    The Great Ziegfeld
    The picture has the opulence, the lavishness, the expansiveness and the color of the old Follies; it has the general indifference to humor which was one of Ziegfeld's characteristics; and it has the reverential approach with which, we suspect, Mr. Ziegfeld might have handled his own life story.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 70 Frank S. Nugent
    Swing Time
    The plot is never permitted to weigh upon the shoulders of the cast; of comedy there is a generous portion; of romance the lightest sprinkling; of dancing, in solo, duet and ensemble, a brisk and debonair allotment.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Frank S. Nugent
    Marked Woman
    Marked Woman could easily have become a maudlin piece. It totters every now and then on the brink of bathos and of melodramatic hokum. But invariably it is snatched back by Lloyd Bacon's direction or by the honesty of its players.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Frank S. Nugent
    Another Thin Man
    This third of the trademarked Thin Men takes its murders as jauntily as ever, confirms our impression that matrimony need not be too serious a business and provides as light an entertainment as any holiday-amusement seeker is likely to find.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 60 Frank S. Nugent
    Only Angels Have Wings
    When you add it all up, Only Angels Have Wings comes to an overly familiar total. It's a fairly good melodrama, nothing more.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 60 Frank S. Nugent
    Jezebel
    It is still an interesting film, though, in spite of our sniffs at its climax; colorful, generally well-performed and admirably directed by William Wyler.
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    • 60 Frank S. Nugent
    Swiss Family Robinson
    The uniformly competent performance of the cast make it a moderately entertaining, if rather somnolently paced, story-book film.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 50 Frank S. Nugent
    Road to Singapore
    The Road to Singapore is cobbled with good intentions, is blessed intermittently with smooth-running strips of amiable nonsense, but is altogether too uneven for regular use.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Frank S. Nugent
    Jamaica Inn
    Jamaica Inn will not be remembered as a Hitchcock picture, but as a Charles Laughton picture.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 50 Frank S. Nugent
    The Roaring Twenties
    With a commentator's voice interpolating ultra-dramatic commonplaces as the film unreels, their melodrama has taken on an annoying pretentiousness which neither the theme nor its treatment can justify.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 40 Frank S. Nugent
    The Invisible Man Returns
    The Invisible Man Returns is a mite on the ghostly side, too, although neither so horrendous nor so humorous as the first one was.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 40 Frank S. Nugent
    The Raven
    If The Raven is the best that Universal can do with one of the greatest horror story writers of all time, then it had better toss away the other two books in its library and stick to the pulpies for plot material.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 30 Frank S. Nugent
    Bringing Up Baby
    After the first five minutes of the Music Hall's new show - we needed those five to orient ourselves - we were content to play the game called "the cliche expert goes to the movies" and we are not at all proud to report that we scored 100 per cent against Dudley Nichols, Hagar Wilde and Howard Hawks, who wrote and produced the quiz. Of course, if you've never been to the movies, Bringing Up Baby will be all new to you - a zany-idden product of the goofy farce school. But who hasn't been to the movies?
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