Nick Newman

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The Film Stage
For 29 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 48% higher than the average critic
  • 13% same as the average critic
  • 39% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 8.7 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Nick Newman's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 74
Highest review score: 91 Logan Lucky
Lowest review score: 50 Mank
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 24 out of 29
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 29
  3. Negative: 0 out of 29
29 movie reviews
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 58 Nick Newman
    Dune: Part Two
    It takes a good stretch of precious screentime for Part Two to play as its own entity and not the serial continuation of a two-year-old film based on a 60-year-old property; it also takes a good stretch of precious screentime for Part Two to play as anything other than a thoroughgoing, checklist-meeting obligation bolstered by obvious craft.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 50 Nick Newman
    Mank
    The exposition-mountain screenplay leaves little to feel just as a devotion to the written word leaves scant room for anything to look at. I’m slightly unsure what anybody involved was hoping to get from the experience, much less what’s the takeaway sans basic admiration for baseline craft.
    • 93 Metascore
    • 50 Nick Newman
    David Byrne’s American Utopia
    Great concert films impose a directorial presence onto player and stage alike, but Lee and team seem more content to record.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 58 Nick Newman
    Emma.
    It is worth reemphasizing that all assembled players rise to the occasion, and Emma. generates most interest when the effects of its verbosity begin paling against non-verbal turns.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Nick Newman
    Planetarium
    Little is left after a while until, finally, Planetarium doesn’t conclude so much as come to an end, and the lasting impression is one of bitterness — a bitterness at once sweetened and worsened by memories of the genuinely great work it had promised and, at turns, even embodied.

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