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
173 movie reviews
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 100 Gregory Nussen
    The Voice of Hind Rajab
    Director Kaouther Ben Hania's The Voice of Hind Rajab is a shattering docu-film which utilizes a novel mix of real audio and footage with actors' reconstruction in a Herculean effort to make this profound loss even more immediate. Hers is a utilitarian mission: to embed the audience in the sensory experience of being in a war zone without letting them scroll past or swipe to the next video.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 100 Gregory Nussen
    Magellan
    Diaz's previous work is both longer, cheaper and mostly in black and white. Magellan is still long, but by comparison, a breeze; it is also clearly expensive and centers a massive global star in what is essentially a biopic. But Diaz's work is subversive by design, a bait-and-switch as a matter of course.
    • 94 Metascore
    • 100 Gregory Nussen
    Once Upon a Time in Harlem
    A clarion call from across space and time, like a message in a bottle, its very existence is a wild gift.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 Gregory Nussen
    The Serpent's Skin
    It's a breathtaking film from a new visionary of the queer indie scene.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Gregory Nussen
    Resurrection
    Resurrection is both testament to the importance of storytelling, as well as the dangers of falling too far within its rabbit hole. But with stories as wrenching and images as evocative as these, why not jump in?
    • 77 Metascore
    • 90 Gregory Nussen
    Project Hail Mary
    Lord & Miller's film is a remarkable achievement.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Gregory Nussen
    28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
    The magic of DaCosta's film is that it tells us that, regardless of who you are, what we're all searching for is the same thing: community, and a place to call home.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 90 Gregory Nussen
    Baahubali: The Epic
    If cinema does go the way of the dinosaurs someday, it is at least good to know that the limits of its power are still being tested by the likes of Rajamouli, whose work reaches so far outside the frame it seems to magically reach out of the screen itself, into the audience's beating heart.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 90 Gregory Nussen
    Yes
    Yes is an astonishing protest film whose comedy belies a broken heart.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 90 Gregory Nussen
    The SpongeBob Movie: Search for Squarepants
    We all need a really good laugh, and Drymon and company deliver.
    • 95 Metascore
    • 90 Gregory Nussen
    One Battle After Another
    A battle cry of uncompromising political ideals, One Battle After Another is amongst Paul Thomas Anderson's most forceful work.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 90 Gregory Nussen
    A Private Life
    Its bizarre blend of genre and tonality comes together in an altogether surprising way; a labyrinth of ceaseless pleasures.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 90 Gregory Nussen
    Seeds
    Shyne is less concerned with a unified story, instead dipping in and out of her subject’s lives and in the process giving us a much more involved experience of a fading subculture.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Gregory Nussen
    Peter Hujar's Day
    The film feels unexpectedly mournful, bringing to life a time that does not exist anymore.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 90 Gregory Nussen
    The Invite
    What makes The Invite ultimately so special is its unabashed honesty, even when it means doom.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 90 Gregory Nussen
    The Sun Never Sets
    This may well be Fanning's best performance to date, an intricately laced characterization of someone who is as filled with determination and dignity as she is by indecision. As Wendy, Fanning has a special way of presenting someone that can be both open and closed in equal measure: smiling through difficulty, forceful and righteous when angry, light and airy when experiencing joy.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 90 Gregory Nussen
    Europe's New Faces
    Through form and function, Abbas demonstrates the ironic and contradictory nature of his very enterprise, as the temporal fixity of the photograph clashes with the persistent movement of a migrant constantly pulled in multiple directions.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Gregory Nussen
    The History of Concrete
    Wilson showed with his television series just how life-affirming it can be to just observe, and, with his triumph of a feature doc, he shows us how merely looking around can reveal entire histories.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 88 Gregory Nussen
    Tótem
    Tótem is a film of unexpected beauty, using its main character as a conduit for exploring the quandaries of a family navigating matters of love, heartbreak, class, innocence, and, perhaps most prominently, mortality.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 88 Gregory Nussen
    Anselm
    Anselm is ultimately an extension of Kiefer’s “protest against forgetting,” as it reminds us that art is an act of remembrance.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 88 Gregory Nussen
    Barbie
    The film is at once a journey of self-actualization and a testament to female solidarity.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 88 Gregory Nussen
    Earth Mama
    Despite Earth Mama’s bleak subject matter, it exudes a beatific warmth, in large part because Leaf takes remarkable pains to dramatize a web of solidarity between a group of Black women alongside her depiction of the very system that disenfranchises them.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 80 Gregory Nussen
    Micro Budget
    It's a deliriously perfect, laugh-a-second satire.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Gregory Nussen
    Dead Lover
    It would be an understatement to say that Dead Lover is unusual. It may be more accurate to call it entirely novel.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Gregory Nussen
    Cover-Up
    Hersh and Poitras fit together like hand in glove. Exceptional warriors for absolute truth and justice, both have made careers out of exposing systemic abuses of power in ways that have often made them enemies of the state - and yet, both have been granted unusual access to the truth.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Gregory Nussen
    Kontinental '25
    Kontinental '25 is an acerbic film which makes you feel uncomfortable for chuckling your way through it, because by doing so you acknowledge an awkward sense of resonance with the guilty.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 80 Gregory Nussen
    The Projectionist
    Despite its outward sullenness, The Projectionist is so well observed in its smaller moments that it contains within it an unusual kind of hope.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Gregory Nussen
    Paralyzed by Hope: The Maria Bamford Story
    An essential doc that reveals the origins of her singular voice with exceeding warmth and vulnerability.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Gregory Nussen
    The Friend's House Is Here
    What's most fascinating about The Friend's House is Here is that it makes its protest heard through a story that remains adamantly vivacious for nearly its entire runtime.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Gregory Nussen
    Wicker
    Brought to life by yet another astounding performance by Olivia Colman and exquisitely shot and designed, Wicker's treasure is in its hopeless romanticism that insists that pure love and adamant individuality can create irrevocable progress through osmosis.
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