Ian Nathan

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For 266 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 54% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 43% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 2.5 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Ian Nathan's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 68
Highest review score: 100 The Big Lebowski
Lowest review score: 20 Billy Madison
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 124 out of 266
  2. Mixed: 138 out of 266
  3. Negative: 4 out of 266
266 movie reviews
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    • 59 Metascore
    • 60 Ian Nathan
    Death on the Nile
    Ustinov may not be the Poirot that we all think of now, after the David Suchet series, but this is pure Agatha Christie, steeped in nostalgia and atmosphere.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Ian Nathan
    The Meaning of Life
    Excessive and self-indulgent it's true but still the Pythons at their worst are still worth a look.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 60 Ian Nathan
    The Net
    The Net entertains but is unlikely to hang around on the cerebral hard disk for too long.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 60 Ian Nathan
    Hitchcock
    Hitchcock for dummies: brisk, jolly, well-played but oversimplified.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 60 Ian Nathan
    Magnum Force
    This has grit coming out of its ears but not the greatest Eastwood feature by a long shot.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Ian Nathan
    Alfie
    Terribly dated, but worth watching for Caine's performance.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 60 Ian Nathan
    Logan's Run
    A sci-fi which balances big themes and claustrophobic action with apparent ease.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Ian Nathan
    The Bounty
    Film is elegant but never beautiful, a pretence at Lean’s magnificence contradicted by a lavish but anachronistic score by Vangelis. It is the words and performances which excite; their director is out of his depth.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 60 Ian Nathan
    13 Minutes
    Despite moody flashbacks to the Nazi takeover, Hirschbiegel draws a blank. Elser remains an enigma, a great what-if whose German torturers cannot comprehend acted alone.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 60 Ian Nathan
    Charade
    Perhaps the best Hitchcock film Hitchcock never made.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Ian Nathan
    Rocky II
    Sequel manages to retain some pathos and credibility.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 60 Ian Nathan
    Unbroken
    Lavish and sporadically powerful, Jolie's POW biopic may have just enough gravity to entice the Academy, but struggles to bring truth to an unbelievable truth.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Ian Nathan
    Prometheus
    Buffeted by a lack of suspense, threadbare characters, and a very poor script, the stunning visuals, gloopy madness, and sterling Fassbenderiness can't prevent Prometheus feeling like Alien's poor relation.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Ian Nathan
    1984
    A solidly made, sternly acted, and faithful realisation of the distopian novel.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 60 Ian Nathan
    Lawless
    An uneven mix of impressively executed, violent clichés about good ol' boys defending the American right to flout the law.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Ian Nathan
    Crocodile Dundee
    Unpretentious, warm, at times hilarious, it's hard to find a bad word to say about Crocodile Dundee.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 60 Ian Nathan
    Dune
    A most fascinating disaster of genre making.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Ian Nathan
    Fury
    A persuasive, warts-and-bolts depiction of warfare from the guts of a tank yoked to an overwrought, sub-Private Ryan account of innocence under fire — so a hit and a miss.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Ian Nathan
    The Peanuts Movie
    Charming in that neurotically adorable way Charles Schulz established over many years, this is a fond continuation of the Snoopyverse.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 60 Ian Nathan
    Betty Blue
    More style than substance... but such sexy, sexy style...
    • 54 Metascore
    • 60 Ian Nathan
    Magic in the Moonlight
    Weightless, but not without its enchantments, this is Woody Allen coasting. But where better to coast than the loveliest coast of all?
    • 52 Metascore
    • 60 Ian Nathan
    The Watcher in the Woods
    It does slow down a bit too much for endless walking hither and thither scenes in the woods, as we ebb toward the grand reveal, but the mystery proves strong enough to hold you.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 60 Ian Nathan
    Species
    Despite the ridiculous premise and casting this is still a pacey little sci-thriller.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Ian Nathan
    Boxcar Bertha
    For exploitation-enthusiasts and Scorsese completists only.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 60 Ian Nathan
    Wild Bill
    This is a valiant but overcomplicated Western that aims to redraw the lines on Western mythology: with heroes as mere humans, and heroics as distortions of the truth.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Ian Nathan
    Quo Vadis
    Enough large-scale spectacle scenes to outweigh the inevitable religiose sludge that creeps in between them.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Ian Nathan
    The Company of Wolves
    It is a complex and at times infuriating structure — it often helps to conceive of the film as the book of short stories it stems from — but simultaneously vivid and disturbing.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Ian Nathan
    Oliver!
    Even if you're not a 'fan' of the musicals, Oliver is so witty, so bright and so endearing that even the iciest viewer should start melting in it's corona.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Ian Nathan
    Executive Decision
    The acting is all first base, the script a laughable stream of gung ho-isms, the action merely solid and the effects indifferent. Yet, you still stroll out with a grin a mile wide.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 60 Ian Nathan
    Papillon
    One of the greatest behind-bars movies ever, the result finds director Franklin J. Schaffner making the most of both his sun-drenched locations and his leading man, who squintily acts even co-star Dustin Hoffman well off the screen.
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