Lisa Nesselson

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For 125 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 67% higher than the average critic
  • 1% same as the average critic
  • 32% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 5.2 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Lisa Nesselson's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 71
Highest review score: 100 Three Colors: Red
Lowest review score: 10 Twentynine Palms
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 93 out of 125
  2. Mixed: 30 out of 125
  3. Negative: 2 out of 125
125 movie reviews
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    • 100 Metascore
    • 100 Lisa Nesselson
    Three Colors: Red
    Red, the beautifully spun and splendidly acted tale of a young model’s decisive encounter with a retired judge, is another deft, deeply affecting variation on Krzysztof Kieslowski’s recurring theme that people are interconnected in ways they can barely fathom. If it’s true — as the helmer has announced — that this opus will be his last foray into film directing, Kieslowski retires at a formal and philosophical peak.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 80 Lisa Nesselson
    Drive My Car
    Hamaguchi has taken Murakami’s original story as a springboard rather than a strict template, changing and adding locations, inventing additional characters and boosting the importance of others.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Lisa Nesselson
    Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner
    The first-ever screenplay written in the Inuit language, Inuktitut -- and the first time's a charm.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 90 Lisa Nesselson
    Three Colors: White
    The entertaining second seg of Krzysztof Kieslowski’s “Three Colors” trilogy is involving, bittersweet and droll. A fine lead perf from Zbigniew Zamachowski anchors an ingenious rags-to-riches tale of revenge filtered through abiding love.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 80 Lisa Nesselson
    The Triplets of Belleville
    Almost completely dialogue-free but graced with terrific sound design and a swell score.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 90 Lisa Nesselson
    Persepolis
    This autobiographical tour de force is completely accessible and art of a very high order.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 90 Lisa Nesselson
    Elle
    This audacious, irony-laced, convention-jumbling tale is just plain fun to watch.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 90 Lisa Nesselson
    To Be and to Have
    Any negative stereotypes viewers might harbor about education in rural communities are sent packing by this magnificently lensed and cumulatively touching account from documaker Nicolas Philibert.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Lisa Nesselson
    Three Colors: Blue
    Bold final sequence is a visual and aural crescendo calibrated to show that while each person is fundamentally alone, every life inevitably touches other lives.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 90 Lisa Nesselson
    Leila's Brothers
    Thanks to the director’s command of his material, the entanglements we witness may be unbelievably challenging and yet do not require any suspension of disbelief. This subtle, convincing emotional tour-de-force doesn’t feel as long as its generous running time.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Lisa Nesselson
    The Red Turtle
    This is, quite simply, thoughtful and ultimately moving animation at its best.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Lisa Nesselson
    Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
    The wrenching tale has something for anyone who likes their melodrama spiked with palpable tension and genuine suspense.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 90 Lisa Nesselson
    My Life as a Zucchini
    A compact triumph of stop-motion animation in the service of a bittersweet tale, My Life As A Courgette (My Vie de Courgette) is as delightful as it is affecting.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Lisa Nesselson
    The Cat Returns (2002)
    Animated by Hiroyuki Morita -- a protege of Hayao Miyazaki -- story draws more from fairy tales than the eerie transformative productions by Studio Ghibli. Result is catchy entertainment for kids and adults.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Lisa Nesselson
    Memento
    Deconstructs time and space with Einstein-caliber dexterity in the service of a delectably disturbing tale of revenge.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Lisa Nesselson
    Tell No One
    Though almost laughably intricate in its plotting, this thoroughly Gallic adaptation of Harlan Coben's novel reps an entertaining sophomore outing for thesp-turned-director Guillaume Canet.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 100 Lisa Nesselson
    Two of Us
    Beautifully crafted and perfectly cast, the film touches on everything from keeping up appearances and family dynamics between parents and adult children to a critique of retirement homes that over-medicate residents. Nina and Mado’s loving intimacy is exquisite as is the care with which the proceedings are lit. The answer to Nina’s question, who cares about two old dykes, is that we do.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Lisa Nesselson
    Winged Migration
    Visually stunning, practically dialogue-free and very family-friendly.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Lisa Nesselson
    Crimson Gold
    Succeeds as a universal account of frustration applicable to any urban center where the gap between haves and have-nots is tauntingly visible.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Lisa Nesselson
    The Super 8 Years
    As a born writer, Annie’s commentary is a time capsule of her life half a century ago but also, by extension, of fascinating changes afoot in France itself.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Lisa Nesselson
    Heal the Living
    In what is only fitting for a story literally and figuratively embroidered around hearts, the film’s visual and emotional beats are perfectly in synch.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Lisa Nesselson
    Late Marriage
    As wrenching as it is funny.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Lisa Nesselson
    Gilles' Wife
    Told primarily via body language and facial expressions with a minimum of dialogue, beautifully observed, emotionally intense tale is an ambitious and rewarding outing for Frederic Fonteyne.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Lisa Nesselson
    I Lost My Body
    I Lost My Body (J’ai perdu mon corps) is sit up and take notice animation.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Lisa Nesselson
    A White, White Day
    A flesh and blood catalogue of ways to be masculine, from tender with his granddaughter to robustly no-nonsense with a weapon, Ingimundur is a fascinating character, splendidly portrayed.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Lisa Nesselson
    Chaos
    A breathlessly involving tale of urban indifference, rampant hypocrisy and the difference a little human decency can make, superbly played pic is a black comedy that's frequently funny but never frivolous.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Lisa Nesselson
    The Night of the 12th
    A deft and satisfying police procedural in command of its unusual tone, The Night of the 12th (La Nuit du 12) is perfectly cast and constructed with quietly thrilling rigour.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Lisa Nesselson
    12 Days
    None of the interactions come across as a sham or an empty formality. Patients are treated with respect, at least in the hearings room.... There’s also genuine and inadvertent humor in the midst of sadness and administrative formalities.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Lisa Nesselson
    A Self-Made Hero
    This sure-footed, deeply ironic comedy about an impostor who rises through the ranks is rock-solid entertainment with an appealing edge.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 100 Lisa Nesselson
    Genesis
    Eye-poppingly intimate footage of various critters evolving from the fetal stage or eating, strolling, fighting and courting that can only be obtained via infinite patience with special equipment in exotic locations.
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