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
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    • 61 Metascore
    • 63 Nick Allen
    Braven
    A movie as dumb and bloody as a slab of meat, but with Momoa playing an emotionally vulnerable logger who you also believe would throw an ax at someone's face.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Nick Allen
    The Polka King
    The sporadic magic of The Polka King largely comes from its casting, and the hammy performances that follow.
    • 22 Metascore
    • 25 Nick Allen
    Father Figures
    Filled with insincere wackiness and sappiness, Father Figures never quite figures out whether it wants to be a raunchy, zippy road movie or a more dialogue-driven dramedy. Despite having no personality of its own, this movie just yearns to be recognized at all.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 50 Nick Allen
    Beyond Skyline
    Tone is a revealing element for this project, which it borrows from the B-movie, apocalyptic seriousness of a later “Transformers” sequel. One of the movie’s biggest surprises is then that it has outtakes, which even include poking fun at how easily the intimidating alien’s costume head can fall off.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 63 Nick Allen
    Big Sonia
    Feeling like a director’s cut that would play best for people who already know her, Big Sonia is a feature that could have very likely made a deeper impact with the succinctness of a short film.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 25 Nick Allen
    Psychopaths
    The director called this “mayhem porn,” a designation and ideology fitting for the latest from indie director Mickey Keating, Psychopaths. This is an active, obnoxious test of an audience’s appetite for blood and how long they can go without novel ideas like purpose or plot.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 50 Nick Allen
    The Disaster Artist
    There is a lacking critical quality to the story as it goes along, touching upon the film’s many idiosyncrasies but leaving them alone.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 63 Nick Allen
    Destination Unknown
    As the film goes from profound life experience to profound life experience, stuck between gathering information and growing art from its themes, the documentary proves to be more noble than notable.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Nick Allen
    Same Kind of Different as Me
    It can be hard to disagree with the heart and events of this true tale, except for when the movie reveals itself to be mighty self-congratulatory.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 88 Nick Allen
    For Ahkeem
    There is a fascinating impulsiveness to the production of this story, especially as it essentially drops viewers into the world of Daje, and then has us follow her for months.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 63 Nick Allen
    Chavela
    The film is too ordinary to feel like it does her legacy complete artistic justice.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 25 Nick Allen
    Realive
    The movie is inescapably lifelessness, unintentionally dumbing itself down while desperately hoping to be profound.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 63 Nick Allen
    Indivisible
    While the script has a problem sharing why it was excited to place conjoined twins in such a predicament, the Fontana sisters boast a special emotional eloquence.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 88 Nick Allen
    Dayveon
    Dayveon stands out with its vision, regional flavor and overall personality.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Nick Allen
    Spettacolo
    It is a touching document of seemingly regular people who yearn to keep an artistic tradition alive.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 38 Nick Allen
    Tulip Fever
    Tulip Fever reveals itself to be so nutty because it explicitly believes it’s not crazy, rambling through its odd events and obsessions without an ounce of 17th century kitsch.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 25 Nick Allen
    I Do... Until I Don't
    It’s baffling, more than anything, as to how all of this talent could create something so uncharacteristic to their collective abilities to make us laugh, or feel something.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Nick Allen
    Clash
    Diab effectively creates a monster of blind hatred, and then holds all of us as captors and witnesses to a hateful world tearing itself apart.
    • 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.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 100 Nick Allen
    Menashe
    Here is a film dedicated to recognizing our most common obstacles, its quiet storytelling largely accompanied by those feelings at the bottom of anyone’s gut: guilt, shame, defeat. Menashe is a gorgeous ode to everyone's inner screw-up.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 63 Nick Allen
    The Untamed
    It’s a low-key trippy sci-fi movie about booty calls with an unwieldy space squid, but I wish I could say it was much more than that.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 25 Nick Allen
    2:22
    With a movie like this, it’s hard to tell where the good idea ran out, as it seems to have been lost many drafts ago. 2:22 really just wants to be seen as clever, which often renders something not very clever at all.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 88 Nick Allen
    The Ornithologist
    There's always something to ponder with this film, which gets stranger and more polarizing as it goes along.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 12 Nick Allen
    All Eyez on Me
    All Eyez on Me is one of the most useless music biopics ever made — it’ll be too confusing for newcomers and too underwhelming for those familiar with the work and the life of rap prophet Tupac Shakur.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 50 Nick Allen
    Shimmer Lake
    From start to finish, Uziel’s packaging of the story seems more inspired than its contents.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 63 Nick Allen
    Radio Dreams
    Radio Dreams is an example of both the compelling passion and polarizing fallibility that can arise when a director works primarily from the heart.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 50 Nick Allen
    Hermia & Helena
    Hermia & Helena’s touch-and-go approach weakens the movie’s key expression of being a relatable story about being lost during your late 20s/early 30s.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Nick Allen
    Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story
    Most of all it is a pure story about love, without the scandals.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 75 Nick Allen
    Absolutely Anything
    Absolutely Anything is more than its unique place in history, and serves to remind us that no one made movies for goofy adults quite like Jones did.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 100 Nick Allen
    One Week and a Day
    In the long list of movies about death, this is one of the most original in recent memory, if for its emotional delicacy in sparing us hollow, tear-gushing grandiosity, and for its attitude on life: In most movies about grief, you are waiting for the characters to cry. This is a marvelous story about loss in which you are waiting for them to laugh.
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