Nick Allen

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RogerEbert.com, The Playlist
For 347 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 45% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 51% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 6 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Nick Allen's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 60
Highest review score: 100 Makala
Lowest review score: 0 DriverX
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 197 out of 347
  2. Mixed: 74 out of 347
  3. Negative: 76 out of 347
347 movie reviews
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 38 Nick Allen
    Leo
    Leo can sometimes have a jolt of energy from its slapstick sequences or its bright color palette, in which Leo the lizard flies through the air, floats on a bubble, or meets other talking animals. But it's all defined by its assembly line animation, in which the spell of watching life-like characters and settings can be easily broken by looking at the backgrounds of shots for just a few seconds.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 38 Nick Allen
    Sollers Point
    One can imagine that Sollers Point might be better if its focus expanded to the area's inhabitants, not just Keith.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 25 Nick Allen
    Sierra Burgess Is a Loser
    There’s plenty to explore about people who hide their true selves behind text and decoys, but Sierra Burgess is a Loser is dumber and more desperate than any episode of “Catfish,” even the one where a guy thought he was dating Katy Perry for five years.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 38 Nick Allen
    Best and Most Beautiful Things
    With a documentary as flabby but well-meaning as Best and Most Beautiful Things, you have to savor the small stuff.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 38 Nick Allen
    Donald Cried
    In the true spirit of this profoundly uninteresting movie, Donald Cried can only shrug through its central notion that men will be sad boys.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 38 Nick Allen
    The Tenth Man
    Burman's film languishes on the chaos of the events, and it can never be accused of not having some ideas about fatherhood and legacy. But the humor of this rambling film runs dry to the point of unpalatable.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 38 Nick Allen
    8-Bit Christmas
    8-Bit Christmas may have a more grounded approach to gamer culture than you'd expect, but it’s constantly beat by its own limited imagination.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 38 Nick Allen
    I See You
    As loud and in-your-face as these developments are presented, they're amount to a shabby collection of Blumhouse-lite scenes that would be a parody if it weren’t so dull.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 38 Nick Allen
    Mean Dreams
    As for Paxton, he enters the story with an edge, establishing the authority and revealing sensitivity of a single father with a powerful job. It’s not a career-topping role by any means but it is a reminder of how the late actor could take on a role with sincerity and breathe some type of life into it.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 38 Nick Allen
    I Want You Back
    Jenny Slate and Charlie Day deserve better than “I Want You Back,” a leaden rom-com that gives them a shot at being funny, charming, and sweet, only to squander it scene by scene.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 25 Nick Allen
    Realive
    The movie is inescapably lifelessness, unintentionally dumbing itself down while desperately hoping to be profound.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 38 Nick Allen
    The Main Event
    It's not about the hard work that's intrinsic with all of wrestling, so much as the WWE's open willingness to sacrifice its core values for lazy family-friendly amusement.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 38 Nick Allen
    William
    William simply devolves into a drab, moody morality tale for parents about not treating your kids like test subjects.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 38 Nick Allen
    Boys from County Hell
    Vampire stories can be so rote that it’s noticeable when the rules are even slightly changed, and that's when Boys from County Hell shows a little spark. But this is more the clear case of a horror movie that forgets to have fun.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 33 Nick Allen
    The Forever Purge
    Gout’s entry should be a victory lap for this relatively often dumb and dirty treatise on all that’s wrong with America, especially one that has become so powerful with multiple box office hits. Instead, it displays all that makes these movies a failed experiment in blockbuster exploitation.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 38 Nick Allen
    Shook
    Shook, about an influencer being tormented by a mysterious caller, takes the bait on making a movie about such social media vanity, but its touch-and-go terror hardly offers commentary or cleverness.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 25 Nick Allen
    VHYes
    I didn't see what was funny about the shallow wackiness of VHYes.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 38 Nick Allen
    Let It Snow
    As a bland addition to the already low-stakes tradition of Xmas rom-coms, Let It Snow could use a whole lot more tinsel.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 38 Nick Allen
    Don't Look Up
    A disastrous movie, Don’t Look Up shows McKay as the most out of touch he’s ever been with what is clever, or how to get his audience to care.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 38 Nick Allen
    Mercy Black
    If having their own Momo is Netflix’s latest attempt to grab viewers, they’re gonna need a much more disturbing monster.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 38 Nick Allen
    Railroad Tigers
    Though it boasts a large scope with its ensemble cast, huge sequences and the star power of the almighty Jackie Chan, Railroad Tigers lacks the vital focus to come together.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 38 Nick Allen
    Elevator Game
    Not dunking on social media teens is a refreshing angle, enough to make you want to care about their inevitable deaths. But the movie's by-the-numbers horror will make you feel otherwise.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 38 Nick Allen
    The Queen of Spain
    The Queen of Spain can only offer scant entertainment for movie buffs and non-movie buffs alike.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 38 Nick Allen
    The Lie
    Very little about this movie works, in spite of a certain ambition in telling a story based solely on unfathomable decisions.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 38 Nick Allen
    Boarding School
    Boarding School has some edge by being told from a child’s perspective, even though it's not for kids. A lot of great directors have told this kind of story, and while Guillermo Del Toro might be the most popular living one to do it, it’s Louis Malle that comes to mind.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 38 Nick Allen
    Paint
    Ross always preached that there were no mistakes, just happy accidents. A mess like Paint—all broad strokes and no point—proves that he wasn’t always right.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 25 Nick Allen
    Salt and Fire
    Salt and Fire is fundamentally bad, in its filmmaking and expressiveness, whether there is any meaning to a parrot quoting Nostradamus or not.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 38 Nick Allen
    Mapplethorpe
    A stunningly drab take on the life and legacy of a photographer who merged pornography with grace, Mapplethorpe doesn’t have an artistic signature of its own, so much as a name it doesn’t live up to.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 0 Nick Allen
    DriverX
    DriverX is worse than just one of the year’s most vapid movies, it’s an out-and-out nightmare of late-stage capitalism.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 25 Nick Allen
    Madres
    Calling a movie like Madres by-the-numbers would be a compliment, and an overstatement, because that would indicate that the makers were even mildly successful.
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