Gregory Nussen

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Screen Rant, Slant Magazine
For 173 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 34% higher than the average critic
  • 6% same as the average critic
  • 60% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 5.3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Gregory Nussen's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 60
Highest review score: 100 Once Upon a Time in Harlem
Lowest review score: 10 The Strangers: Chapter 3
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 89 out of 173
  2. Mixed: 55 out of 173
  3. Negative: 29 out of 173
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Gregory Nussen
    André Is an Idiot
    Every life is a universe unto itself, and Ricciardi was clearly the kind of unique soul whose spirit enriched everyone around him, but its actually in the margins of this sometimes preening doc that Benna's film really hits its target. When the film rests, it destigmatizes a process that everyone will eventually go through (albeit in a range of ways).
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Gregory Nussen
    The Mother and the Bear
    When Ma focuses on the grounded journey of Sara's fish-out-of-water story and the genuine chemistry between her and Sam, the film sings.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Gregory Nussen
    All You Need Is Kill
    ALL YOU NEED IS KILL is not a film that'll have you scratching your head for meaning. It wears its empathy and its plea for life on its sleeve like a badge of honor. Admirable though that is, that directness does translate into threadbare writing.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 60 Gregory Nussen
    Primate
    Overall, the pulpier and the dumber it gets, Primate provides a pretty good reason to get to the theater in January. And, it gets pretty pulpy and dumb indeed.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Gregory Nussen
    Eagles of the Republic
    The film would've been better served had it stuck to either satire or tense drama, but whatever the case, the climax of Saleh's film is aces and as taut as can be.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Gregory Nussen
    Homegrown
    After its more interesting first hour, the intimate access gets tiresome, and it's hard to say what is gained by being introduced to the personal lives of the members of a notorious hate group.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Gregory Nussen
    American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez
    If American Pachuco leaves you wanting more, perhaps that's not a bad thing; Valdez deserves the last word, anyway, and he's not finished.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Gregory Nussen
    Crime 101
    This is a purposefully languid movie that proves real, genuine tension can be built without crash landing right on your head. In an era of fast cuts and escalating explosions — the kind that Hemsworth, Ruffalo and Halle Berry all know intimately from their time in Marvel's universe — it is refreshing to watch something this confident in its own particular DNA.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Gregory Nussen
    Predator: Badlands
    Dan Trachtenberg's third Predator entry is exciting, but also tonally askew in ways that prevent it from hitting its stride.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 60 Gregory Nussen
    Deepfaking Sam Altman
    In implicit ways, Deepfaking Sam Altman demonstrates just how out of touch from basic humanity these programs still are, which makes it all the more terrifying when we hear how they are being peddled as tools which can literally decide the fate of human lives.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Gregory Nussen
    Shuffle
    Shuffle is a solid primer for a massive subject, and Flaherty's approach is a maddening introduction to a world that needs massive reform.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Gregory Nussen
    American Sweatshop
    What the film does exceedingly well is make us see the inherent irony of moderating online violence to the exclusion of the real-life violence in front of our faces.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Gregory Nussen
    Haunted Mansion
    The film handily invokes the campiness of the iconic Disneyland attraction, if not its kinetics.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 50 Gregory Nussen
    undertone
    Perhaps it's fitting that a horror film set around a podcast flits in and out of being engaging, since that's more or less the experience of listening to one, but it doesn't exactly make for a cohesive viewing experience.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Gregory Nussen
    Midwinter Break
    To put it simply: it's just not very stimulating to watch two people who have a hard time talking... have a hard time talking. Stella and Gerry's love may be stuck in the wintry cold, but so is the film, utterly unable to be thawed.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Gregory Nussen
    Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
    Sweet but narratively thin and didactic, the latest from DreamWorks Animation always seems as if it’s trying to find its footing.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Gregory Nussen
    Cobweb
    As tantalizing as the film’s ambiguity can be in certain moments, there comes a point where it starts to feel at once half-baked and a transparent means of delaying the inevitable.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Gregory Nussen
    See You When I See You
    It's a standard-bearer film, a real fastball down the middle, which hits all of its assumed itinerant emotional beats right on target, without ever really challenging us in any major way.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 50 Gregory Nussen
    Mother of Flies
    The best parts of Mother of Flies are in the margins. At its most lucid, it tells us that life, death and healing are magic — both of the Western and witchy varieties.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 50 Gregory Nussen
    El Conde
    The film never really leans into the farcical possibilities of its premise nor its earnest appraisal of Augusto Pinochet’s legacy.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Gregory Nussen
    Wolfs
    The witty repartee between Clooney and Pitt feels like the only thing holding the film together.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Gregory Nussen
    Scream VI
    It simply picks up the baton from the previous film, relying on a series of increasingly nasty, and at times exciting, kills to thrill audiences, while leaving everything in between to feel as fake as its vision of the Big Apple.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 50 Gregory Nussen
    A Haunting in Venice
    In the end, any attempts that A Haunting in Venice makes at connecting post-war trauma to Halloween and the ability to commune with the dead are non-committal, and the script doesn’t do enough to communicate why any of that matters.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 50 Gregory Nussen
    The Oval Portrait
    The combination of crime film and romantic gothic horror never really gels. It is successful in its invocation of old Hollywood (including a very fun opening credits sequence), and its horror beats are effective, but it doesn't work in total.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 50 Gregory Nussen
    Pepe
    As an anguished cry against colonialism, Pepe works best when illustrating the micro ways in which culture is erased by capital interests.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 50 Gregory Nussen
    Honey Bunch
    It's to the actors' credit that it works when it does, and what it ultimately posits about marriage is as grossly haunting as it is disturbingly poetic.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 50 Gregory Nussen
    Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
    The film undermines its initial sense of intimacy and momentum with a stop-and-start story structure that by and large exists to make as much room as possible for its characters’ banter.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 50 Gregory Nussen
    The Carpenter's Son
    Heretical or not, it's a captivating story, even when it seems predicated solely on vibes. It's a shame, then, that the film is not as accessible as Jupe is as an actor. The first two acts move like molasses, brimming with allegory that never quite translates off the page.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 50 Gregory Nussen
    She Dances
    She Dances seems almost scared of its own premise.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 50 Gregory Nussen
    Family Movie
    In between nonchalant murders, Beers, Bacon, and Sedgwick aim for grounded heart-to-heart conversations of a kind that don't exactly feel at home in the movie's otherwise topsy-turvy world. But being that this is a real family that has worked together for decades, their chemistry elevates the somewhat lackluster writing to deliver a pleasurable, if tame experience.
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