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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    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Ian Nathan
    Jason and the Argonauts
    For sheer old-fashioned, childhood rekindling adventure you really can't go past it - just don't take the rose-tinted glasses off.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 60 Ian Nathan
    Escape to Witch Mountain
    What a peculiar but effective children’s adventure movie this is.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 80 Ian Nathan
    Creepshow
    Genuinely creepy, satirical and occasionally daft horror tales with a distinctly moral bent.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Ian Nathan
    Octopussy
    One for the die hards. The saving grace here is a knowing sense of humour so lacking in its predecessor, For Your Eyes Only.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Ian Nathan
    The Golden Voyage of Sinbad
    In the grand pantheon of Sinbad movies, those pleasurable Arabesques of silly beasts, big swords and scantily clad maidens, this lower league Ray Harryhausen stop-motion thriller squeezes between the better Eye Of The Tiger and the worse Seventh Voyage.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Ian Nathan
    A Bridge Too Far
    This sprawling epic rewards patience with an emotional pay-off and non-triumphant ending that reminds us all too starkly of the sacrifices made during war.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 20 Ian Nathan
    Village of the Damned
    Pointless re-make. One of (the once great) Carpenter's worst.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Ian Nathan
    Blood Simple
    As black, sinful and nasty as a weekful of Hitchcocks, this is as fresh and intoxicating now as it was back then. In a word: deadly.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 60 Ian Nathan
    Sabrina
    Forgettable, innocent, old fashioned fairy tale with not nearly as much sexual chemistry as is required.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 40 Ian Nathan
    Rocky IV
    The jingoism is blindingly awful, but by the time of the showdown, the film has descended into an unaware parody of itself.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Ian Nathan
    A Room with a View
    Stunning cast and scenery cannot fill the hole where the heart of this film should be. A satire with an unnaturally soft centre.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 40 Ian Nathan
    Moonraker
    Bond meets Star Wars in one of the series' sillier outings.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Ian Nathan
    Presumed Innocent
    A well-rigged whodunit based on the bestseller by Scott Turrow, that pretends to investigate the various political manipulations that haunt your average district attorney’s office but is in truth about the wages of sin.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Ian Nathan
    The Eagle Has Landed
    Michael Caine as a Nazi and Donald Pleasance as Himmler...what more could you want?
    • 51 Metascore
    • 40 Ian Nathan
    Any Which Way You Can
    About the dumbest movie Clint Eastwood ever put his name to.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 60 Ian Nathan
    Encino Man
    Highly-evolved it ain't, but this Stone Age slacker is a lot of fun.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 80 Ian Nathan
    Outland
    This gritty sci-fi is undeservedly neglected and underrated.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Ian Nathan
    The Dark Crystal
    Well-paced and stunningly shot.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 60 Ian Nathan
    The Passion of the Christ
    A tormented movie about torment; loopy, over-reaching and occasionally suspicious. Simultaneously, it is a daring artistic endeavour.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 60 Ian Nathan
    The Omega Man
    It's not the plot that disappoints, it's the poor dialogue between action sequences. Sadly another film to file under not as good as the book.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 40 Ian Nathan
    Cleopatra
    Running at just over four hours, it is as spectacular, lush and extravagant as the studio would have liked its audience to believe. But it also has moments of mind-numbing boredom as the plot,– slowed by extraneous dialogue, drags from Egypt to Rome.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Ian Nathan
    The China Syndrome
    Technology, as ever, is examined through a pessimistic prism, but the script is equipped with enough jargon and detail to expose the work and responsibility of the filmmakers.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Ian Nathan
    The General
    A fulsome, fascinating piece of 20th century Irish folklore.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 100 Ian Nathan
    The Road Warrior
    It is the Road Warrior (as it was subtitled for the American release) that remains the definitive Max movie, hard as nails, hell for leather, it lands like a punch to the jaw. Don't drive angry? Yeah, right.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 80 Ian Nathan
    The Hitcher
    A stunner of unrelenting tension interrupted by action, violence and gore.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Ian Nathan
    Where Eagles Dare
    Classic War caper with a few too many plot contrivances but high on adventure.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Ian Nathan
    Slumdog Millionaire
    Danny Boyle's finest since "Trainspotting." In fact, it's the best British/Indian gameshow-based romance of the millennium.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 60 Ian Nathan
    ffolkes
    A bit silly really but it has a bizarre mix of a cast and some tension in places.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Ian Nathan
    Fantastic Voyage
    The effects may have dated, as have the Cold War themes, but the almost real time adventure still has some tension to offer.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Ian Nathan
    Fried Green Tomatoes
    The tale from the past is very nostalgic, heartwarming and mouth-watering and all, as Idgie and Ruth cook up a storm, are kindly to their black domestics and stand up to piggy men while events fitfully progress to a courtroom climax. And Masterson is a peach. But the best bits belong to Bates as her dreary Evelyn raises her consciousness, lowers her weight and starts speaking her mind. It's a nice, pleasant celebration of friendship, but without much meat to chew on.
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