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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    • 73 Metascore
    • 100 Frank S. Nugent
    Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
    [Capra] has paced it beautifully and held it in perfect balance, weaving his romance lightly through the political phases of his comedy, flicking a sardonic eye over the Washington scene, racing out to the hinterland to watch public opinion being made and returning miraculously in time to tie all the story threads together into a serious and meaningful dramatic pattern.
    • 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
    • 80 Frank S. Nugent
    True Confession
    A valiant comedy, it stands on a level with such blissfully remembered items as I Met Him in Paris and Nothing Sacred... for they are all of a piece -- witty, clever and hugely amazing shows.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Frank S. Nugent
    Intermezzo: A Love Story
    Intermezzo is not exactly a dramatic thunderbolt, nothing the glamour-conscious will be inflamed about. But we found it a mature, an eloquent and sensitive film and we recommend it to you.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Frank S. Nugent
    Young and Innocent
    Alfred Hitchcock, England's jovial and rotund master of melodrama, has turned out another crisply paced, excellently performed film in "The Girl Was Young."
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Frank S. Nugent
    Young Mr. Lincoln
    Not merely a natural and straightforward biography, but a film which indisputably has the right to be called Americana. Henry Fonda's characterization is one of those once-in-a-blue-moon things: a crossroads meeting of nature, art, and a smart casting director.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 90 Frank S. Nugent
    The Wizard of Oz
    A delightful piece of wonder-working which had the youngsters' eyes shining and brought a quietly amused gleam to the wiser ones of the oldsters.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Frank S. Nugent
    My Man Godfrey
    An exuberantly funny picture.
    • 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.
    • 98 Metascore
    • 100 Frank S. Nugent
    The Lady Vanishes
    If it were not so brilliant a melodrama, we should class it as a brilliant comedy.
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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.
    • 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.
    • 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.
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