John Nugent

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For 245 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 54% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 44% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 1 point lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

John Nugent's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 65
Highest review score: 100 Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
Lowest review score: 20 The School for Good and Evil
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 104 out of 245
  2. Mixed: 136 out of 245
  3. Negative: 5 out of 245
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    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 John Nugent
    Return to Seoul
    A film that recognises there is no single answer to questions like ‘who are you?’ or ‘where do you come from’. Stirring, constantly surprising stuff — with an arresting debut turn from Ji-Min Park.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 80 John Nugent
    Drive-Away Dolls
    As furiously funny as it is helplessly horny, this lesbian road movie simultaneously feels exactly like a Coen brothers film — and entirely its own thing, too.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 John Nugent
    Bones and All
    Part arthouse-Twilight, part John Hughes-ian coming-of-age romance, part Bonnie And Clyde cannibal remix, part dreamy Wim Wenders-esque road trip. This is gorgeous, gruesome work from Luca Guadagnino.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 John Nugent
    The Christophers
    Another solidly gripping film from the ever-prolific Soderbergh, this is a terrific two-hander, with Coel and McKellen on fine, fierce form.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 John Nugent
    Flux Gourmet
    A brilliant, bizarre, occasionally grotesque, horror-inflected cinematic delicacy. Sounds like a Peter Strickland film, then.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 John Nugent
    Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
    A fizzy, gaudy, joyfully entertaining couple of hours. If there’s any right in the world, Rian Johnson and Daniel Craig will continue making films in the Benoit Blanc Cinematic Universe forever.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 80 John Nugent
    The Rip
    A gripping, zig-zaggy potboiler, this is a crime thriller in the old-school tradition, with some enjoyable turns from Boston’s finest, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 John Nugent
    The Voice of Hind Rajab
    About as powerful as cinema gets. Its hybrid blend of documentary audio and devastating dramatisation is heart-wrenchingly, shatteringly effective.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 80 John Nugent
    Moana 2
    A touch less fresh than the original, but this is still bursting with energy, emotion, warmth and imagination. It knows the way.  
    • 58 Metascore
    • 80 John Nugent
    Apex
    Just a solidly made cat-and-mouse thriller, with muscularly committed performances from its two leads. It’ll make you want to explore the Great Outdoors and simultaneously never leave your house again.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 John Nugent
    Shithouse
    As a sensitive portrait of what college is like for the awkward lonely types — and an ode to just staying up late and shooting the sh*t — Freshman Year is a funny, tender treat.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 John Nugent
    Blue Jean
    It isn’t always subtle, but Blue Jean is a gorgeously presented, stirringly performed slice of British queer history that announces director Georgia Oakley and actor Rosy McEwen as major talents to watch.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 John Nugent
    Missing
    A gripping, well-told, incredibly watchable thriller for a new generation of TikTok sleuths — and a compelling argument to up your average screen-time.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 80 John Nugent
    Beau Is Afraid
    The reach of this avant-garde comic meltdown sometimes exceeds its grasp, but this is still a consistently jaw-dropping joyride through one man’s terrible, very bad, no good week.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 80 John Nugent
    All the Old Knives
    A smart, compelling, pared-down thriller for grown-ups, anchored by a pair of stunningly charming performances from Chris Pine and Thandiwe Newton.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 John Nugent
    Compartment No. 6
    This unconventional love story — which plays like a Richard Linklater film set in the Arctic circle — is a total charmer, and will have you reaching for an Interrail ticket immediately afterwards.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 John Nugent
    The Naked Gun
    The result is a film that has a better chance of producing a belly laugh than any in recent memory: one that deserves, as Drebin would say, “20 years for man’s laughter”.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 80 John Nugent
    Medusa Deluxe
    Thick with sharpened scissors, and barbers with barbed tongues, Medusa Deluxe is a unique take on the whodunnit mould, and a hell of a debut from British filmmaker Thomas Hardiman.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 80 John Nugent
    undertone
    A cautionary tale against the dangers of excessive podcasting, this is a supremely spooky sonic ordeal. As an allegory for Catholic guilt, it’s haunting; as an auditory experience, it’ll fuck you up.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 John Nugent
    Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
    Inventively animated, giddily funny, and a surprisingly authentic take on the outsider experience: it is virtually impossible not to be charmed by these reptilian bros.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 80 John Nugent
    We Have a Ghost
    Christopher Landon dials down the blood and dials up the feels for a fun, heartfelt horror-comedy enlivened by David Harbour’s accomplished apparition-acting.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 John Nugent
    Wasteman
    An energetic, urgent and damning assessment of our prison crisis, Wasteman marks Cal McMau as an exciting new homegrown director.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 John Nugent
    Eddington
    An audacious, farcically funny digest of where we are now, and how we got here: the cinematic equivalent of pandemic primal therapy, a mad scream into the void.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 John Nugent
    Will & Harper
    An affectionate road-trip buddy-movie, featuring an unseen depth to Will Ferrell, this documentary is illuminating, timely, and gently funny.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 John Nugent
    Benedetta
    A funny, filthy, iconoclastic riot. Paul Verhoeven’s latest erotic satire won’t be for all creeds, but it is bursting with enough ideas that even doubters can find something to believe in here.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 John Nugent
    Juror #2
    If this is to be a swansong, it’s a fitting one: a thrillingly watchable legal thriller about truth, justice and (for better and for worse) the American way, as told by an all-American icon. 
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 John Nugent
    Brian and Charles
    Made with genuine affection and innately British whimsy, this is really just an odd-couple comedy about two lonely blokes — one of whom has a “washing machine for a tummy”.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 John Nugent
    The Extraordinary Miss Flower
    A true original: an impressionistic portrait of a lost life, recreated in multiple forms with a gorgeous soundtrack. Odd, but unique.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 80 John Nugent
    The Running Man
    Edgar Wright’s biggest film yet feels like something out of both the future and the 1980s: a scathing satire that’s also a lot of fizzy blockbuster fun.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 John Nugent
    All That Breathes
    A thoughtful, meditative thesis on humanity’s relationship with nature, filmed with the kind of cinematographic beauty most fiction filmmakers can only aspire towards.
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