Nathan Lee

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NPR, The New York Times
For 78 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 43% higher than the average critic
  • 8% same as the average critic
  • 49% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 14.6 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Nathan Lee's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 51
Highest review score: 90 Next Day Air
Lowest review score: 0 Harold
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 22 out of 78
  2. Mixed: 40 out of 78
  3. Negative: 16 out of 78
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    • 55 Metascore
    • 60 Nathan Lee
    A Jihad for Love
    Mr. Sharma's film emphasizes testimony over context to such a degree that it feels at first of little use to anyone except gay Muslims who might take comfort in knowing they're not alone. But the documentary gains depth of feeling as it goes and even develops something of a nail-biting narrative.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 50 Nathan Lee
    Youssou Ndour: I Bring What I Love
    Perhaps because the music is so good, with its purity of tone and dazzling rhythmic precision, the flaws of the surrounding movie become all the more obvious.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 90 Nathan Lee
    Next Day Air
    With a script that snaps, characters that pop, a blaze of streetwise attitude and enough firepower to pulverize a significant chunk of South Philadelphia, Next Day Air nears neo-blaxploitation perfection. Good things come in strange packages.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 30 Nathan Lee
    New World Order
    An unrelentingly tedious documentary.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 70 Nathan Lee
    Otto; or, Up with Dead People
    One of the more disciplined entries in the LaBruce oeuvre, Otto is sexy and silly in just the right proportions, a cult item with a real heart.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 30 Nathan Lee
    Final Destination 3
    The third installment lacks the novelty of the first, the panache of the second and the twisted sense of humor that gives the series its participatory sense of fun.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 30 Nathan Lee
    Haven
    From a producer of "Crash" comes Haven, an even phonier exercise in manufactured conflict, facile irony and preposterous contrivance.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Nathan Lee
    Pusher III: I'm the Angel of Death
    The atmosphere is so thick, the talk so assured, the performances so disciplined and the fear so fearsome, that Mr. Refn’s final iteration of his pattern achieves the hard, bright light of an archetype from hell.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 50 Nathan Lee
    A Wink and a Smile
    It's all good clean fun; the movie is well intentioned to a blandly feminist fault. Just as burlesque loses most of its oomph when put on video -- no art is more dependent on the intimacy of live performance -- self-esteem trips are less compelling to hear about than to experience firsthand.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 40 Nathan Lee
    Repo! The Genetic Opera
    Feels destined to please a campy coterie of fans and no one else.
    • 23 Metascore
    • 40 Nathan Lee
    Reunion
    Reunion overflows with catharsis -- at least for those on screen. This may not be quite the moment to solicit our sympathy for self-absorbed beneficiaries of Ivy League privilege.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 30 Nathan Lee
    Memorial Day
    Moves from clever mock documentary to groan-inducing conceptualism. Mr. Fox may well have put his finger on certain shared impulses between these repellent bacchanalia, but his manner of drawing them out is heavy-handed.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 50 Nathan Lee
    Broken Sky
    Mr. Hernández doesn't always grab what he's reaching for -- his talent soars untethered by discipline -- but the thrust of his effort lights up the sky.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 30 Nathan Lee
    12 Rounds
    There are, as you may have guessed, 12 rounds of this arbitrary nonsense. Annoying as the conceit may be, it neatly functions as a means to gauge how much is left to endure.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 40 Nathan Lee
    Dark Streets
    Diverting enough as a series of music videos, Dark Streets strikes postures in place of drama.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Nathan Lee
    A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
    A gentle, pleasantly unrushed piece of moviemaking. There’s a tonic simplicity to how it gets the job done, and if the film comes off as fairly conventional stuff, it nevertheless succeeds on its own modest, middlebrow terms.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 30 Nathan Lee
    Kettle of Fish
    Premised entirely on nonsense.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 70 Nathan Lee
    loudQUIETloud: A Film About the Pixies
    Boring people who made extraordinary music, the Pixies are inexplicable. In attempting to demystify them, the directors Steven Cantor and Matthew Galkin achieve the opposite.
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