Nell Minow

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Chicago Sun-Times, RogerEbert.com
For 245 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 74% higher than the average critic
  • 7% same as the average critic
  • 19% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 6.9 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Nell Minow's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 73
Highest review score: 100 Hoppers
Lowest review score: 0 Lady of the Manor
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 202 out of 245
  2. Mixed: 30 out of 245
  3. Negative: 13 out of 245
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    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Nell Minow
    Joy
    Sometimes we just need a nice, cozy movie featuring a heartwarming true story and actors with British accents. And if Bill Nighy is one of them, well, that's just a bonus.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 88 Nell Minow
    The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
    Its lessons about how kindness and inclusion benefit both the giver and the receiver are welcome, but its gentle reminder to view even the oldest and best-known story with fresh attention and connection may be even more meaningful.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 88 Nell Minow
    After: Poetry Destroys Silence
    The film’s look and sound are lyrical, providing an apt setting for the poets who recite their work and discuss the kind of communication that fills in the gaps left by recitations of fact, archival images, or dramatic re-enactments.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 88 Nell Minow
    Black Box Diaries
    [Itô] wants us to see her when she is vulnerable and in pain. But the film itself is a testament to her courage.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 100 Nell Minow
    Conclave
    Conclave is smart, provocative, sometimes funny, and determined to make us rethink our initial impressions. It challenges us to challenge ourselves and is wildly entertaining, one of the year’s standout films.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 63 Nell Minow
    Lee
    Kuras understands the unique position of the photographer as intrusive but unobtrusive, sensitive enough to see where the story is but removed enough to maintain observer status. However, as for more about who she was, Miller stays frustratingly out of focus.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 75 Nell Minow
    Fly
    It’s filled with stunning images of some of the world’s most beautiful mountains and canyons and heart-stopping GoPro footage that takes us into the air with the jumpers. It’s sometimes thrilling and sometimes horrifying as we see and hear terrible accidents.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Nell Minow
    All Happy Families
    Director Haroula Rose, who co-wrote the film with Coburn Goss, gives it a leisurely, lived-in feeling. The actors, especially Baker, bring layers to the characters that hold our interest, earn our affection, and make us reconsider Tolstoy—there is more than one way to be a happy family.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 63 Nell Minow
    The Critic
    McKellen is the reason to see “The Critic.” This extraordinary actor could not wish for a character better suited to his depth of understanding and experience.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 88 Nell Minow
    I'll Be Right There
    Screenwriter Jim Beggarly deftly combines believable characters with a solid narrative structure.
    • 22 Metascore
    • 25 Nell Minow
    Reagan
    We could use much more insight into what made [Reagan] “the great communicator,” but this movie is a poor communicator about the history and the man.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 88 Nell Minow
    Good Bad Things
    Good Bad Things is an intimate, small story about the gigantic issue that challenges and terrifies us all: the collision between the desperate need to be seen and loved and the fear that what people might see will repel rather than attract them.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Nell Minow
    You Gotta Believe
    Parents with young children who hope this is a sweet and inspiring film about an underdog Little League team will find that there is too little baseball and too much about a family confronting a devastating loss. Those who are more interested in the story of the adults will find there is too much baseball. Steee-rike.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 88 Nell Minow
    Daughters
    There are dozens of carefully observed and touching moments in “Daughters,” which won both the Documentary Audience Award and the Festival Favorite Award at Sundance.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 88 Nell Minow
    War Game
    All of the participants have broad and deep experience, and it's fascinating to see them work through their options.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 38 Nell Minow
    The Fabulous Four
    Like these other actresses-of-a-certain-age movies, the entire story is grounded on some notion of a deep and sustaining friendship. But it's hard to believe these women have any genuine connection other than cashing a check for a film that is not fabulous but forgettable.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 50 Nell Minow
    Skywalkers: A Love Story
    We can never quite settle into the connection to the couple because while it makes it indisputably clear, despite some claims of Photoshopping, that they really do scale the tallest and most iconic structures in the world, there is a discomfiting artificiality to the storytelling.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 88 Nell Minow
    Touch
    The film’s embrace of compassion and forgiveness for everyone is heartwarmingly spacious. It shimmers with grace.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 63 Nell Minow
    Space Cadet
    Writer/director Liz W. Garcia plays it safe here, with a result that has no surprises but is effectively entertaining, thanks largely to Roberts’ performance, which she seems to be enjoying so much it would be impossible not to enjoy it with her.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Nell Minow
    A Family Affair
    As mundane as its title, with characters whose color-by-numbers personalities and motivations shift randomly to fit a predictable storyline, “A Family Affair” is a low-wattage rom-com.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 88 Nell Minow
    Tuesday
    Julia Louis-Dreyfus gives a performance of breathtaking vulnerability as the mother of a dying teenager in “Tuesday,” a film that tells the story of the most shattering loss of all without melodrama or a score filled with syrupy strings.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 75 Nell Minow
    Longing
    Gabizon is not making a documentary here or attempting any realism. “Longing” is a manifestation of how grief makes emotions overtake reason and the inherent resilience that sometimes requires you to come back to reality. That reality will be diminished but somehow make you whole.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 88 Nell Minow
    For Love & Life: No Ordinary Campaign
    The film carefully balances the most painful moments with glimmers of progress and hope and makes a powerful argument for looking at struggles so easily ignored.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 38 Nell Minow
    The Garfield Movie
    The storyline is complicated but not particularly engaging. There are elements that are too arcane or unsettling for children and not of any special comedic value for adults.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 88 Nell Minow
    Babes
    This is a smart and loving movie about female friendship.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 63 Nell Minow
    Lazareth
    The themes of the film are so resonant that they create an immediate connection with the audience, but producer/star Judd and writer/director Alec Tibaldi address them with sincerity but not much depth. The film is more about mood than insight.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Nell Minow
    The Idea of You
    If they gave Oscars for bringing underwritten characters to life, Hathaway and Galitzine would be contenders.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 88 Nell Minow
    Nowhere Special
    There are so many ways to go wrong with this story, which we are told was inspired by an unidentified real father and son. Writer/director Uberto Pasolini does not let that happen, relying on the most ordinary details to take on greater and greater weight.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Nell Minow
    Hard Miles
    It is a compelling story, and the film is a combination of spectacular scenery, arduous exertion, inspiring pep talks, adolescent rebellion, emotional confrontations, and lessons learned by both the teenagers and their leader.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Nell Minow
    The Long Game
    For this team and their coach, the long game is about whatever it takes to play and get on track to a championship, even if that means smiling at insults and swallowing their pride when the competition cheats. Ultimately, though, it's not about golf but about dedication, resilience, and the joy of finding you can do better than your dreams.
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