Nick Prigge

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For 45 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 64% higher than the average critic
  • 0% same as the average critic
  • 36% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 5.1 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Nick Prigge's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 60
Highest review score: 75 Paths of the Soul
Lowest review score: 25 Amnesiac
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 28 out of 45
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 45
  3. Negative: 8 out of 45
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    • 90 Metascore
    • 75 Nick Prigge
    Paths of the Soul
    Zhang Yang achieves an astonishing immediacy by simply allowing the prostration process to play out over and over with minimal aesthetic interference.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 50 Nick Prigge
    Elstree 1976
    It too often fails to examine how the long shadow cast by Star Wars affected its its background actors' lives.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 38 Nick Prigge
    Pelé: Birth of a Legend
    The beautiful game, as Pelé called football (or soccer to us Americans), has never felt like such a sedate slog.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Nick Prigge
    Diamond Tongues
    Throughout, Pavan Moondi and Brian Robertson purposely indulge Hollywood formula only to subvert it.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 75 Nick Prigge
    Band of Robbers
    It places more focus on the childish fabulousness of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer than the racial reckoning of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 38 Nick Prigge
    Addicted to Fresno
    The film's larger points essentially fall by the wayside in the name of black comedy that's largely without genuine edge.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Nick Prigge
    The Mend
    The film is defined by its staunch refusal to clarify its characters' emotional issues, marooning them instead in the messes those emotions have wrought.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 25 Nick Prigge
    Amnesiac
    Its concern for the reclamation of identity is less important than the dull approximation of The Others' stark haunted-house atmospherics.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 38 Nick Prigge
    Jenny's Wedding
    Tolerance in the film doesn't so much suggest a recognizably real epiphany as it does a moving Hallmark card.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 63 Nick Prigge
    Samba
    Even as Samba struggles to hold onto his identity, the film becomes entangled in an identity crisis of its own.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Nick Prigge
    Runoff
    This emotionally affecting film never loses sight of the ethical complexity of forsaking a community in the name of an individual.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 63 Nick Prigge
    Balls Out
    The film reveals itself as a sports movie actually attuned to the knowledge that victory in an inconsequential game bears no meaning.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Nick Prigge
    Live From New York!
    Formally, it relies on a bevy of spectacularly funny clips and a plethora of talking heads, most of which fall back on plaudits rather than sage insights.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Nick Prigge
    Barely Lethal
    The film settles into a time-honored groove of so many forgettable juvenile comedies before it.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Nick Prigge
    Sunshine Superman
    It depicts counterculture where those stranded outside the barriers of conventional society seek to push past natural boundaries to intermingle with the metaphysical in midair.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 63 Nick Prigge
    Days of Grace
    Eventually, the film's impressive array of formal pyrotechnics overwhelms its morals.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Nick Prigge
    Closer to the Moon
    Writer-director Nae Caranfil oddly forgoes the abundant elegiac aspects of his film's factual material for a tone approaching the ebullient.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 50 Nick Prigge
    October Gale
    The film begins as a moodily introspective drama about grief before implausibly morphing into a stale thriller.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Nick Prigge
    Wild Canaries
    Lawrence Michael Levine's film occupies a sweet spot between the self-aware and taut.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Nick Prigge
    Matt Shepard Is a Friend of Mine
    The doc adopts the viewpoint specifically of those who knew him best, and seeks to separate the person from the emblem.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 63 Nick Prigge
    Song One
    This snapshot of catharsis follows a familiar trajectory, but Kate Barker-Froyland refreshingly resists elevating her characters' relationship to the level of grandiose.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Nick Prigge
    Medeas
    Writer-director Andrea Pallaoro's feature-film debut isn't especially beholden to plot or dialogue, impressionistically shaping its story through pervasive silence.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 75 Nick Prigge
    Little Accidents
    A movingly authentic exploration of a working-class milieu and the psychological and economic trauma that ripples through a town in the wake of a tragic accident.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Nick Prigge
    Little Feet
    This is a micro-budgeted affair of the heart that's never precious or obnoxious, but tender and moving and occasionally explosive in its intrinsic emotion.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 75 Nick Prigge
    Comet
    Its time-jumping strategy cleverly illuminates the way in which we go over and fixate on isolated incidents in our minds of breakups past.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 63 Nick Prigge
    Before I Disappear
    Even at its most compelling, it remains inconsistent and superfluous, a lesson that sometimes a movie can feel more fully formed in 19 minutes rather than 90.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 38 Nick Prigge
    A Merry Friggin' Christmas
    Whereas "Bad Santa" was nastier and riskier, as well as more mischievously winsome, A Merry Friggin' Christmas is as curiously timid as it is morally dubious.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Nick Prigge
    West
    Christian Schwochow's film is a tense psychological slow burn, putting us in the muddled headspace of its protagonist as she gradually comes unglued.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Nick Prigge
    The Great Invisible
    It effectively demonstrates how the systemic cause of the Deepwater Horizon explosion was tied as much to society's staggering dependence on fossil fuels as to the oil industry's greed.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Nick Prigge
    Waiting for August
    The distinct lack of domestic drama is precisely what makes the doc so gratifying as a portrait of a family averting turmoil in spite of challenging circumstances.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 63 Nick Prigge
    Fishing Without Nets
    Though this setup is perhaps infused with too much piety, cheating audience empathy toward the main character, it nonetheless generates a compelling air of social fatalism.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 75 Nick Prigge
    Swim Little Fish Swim
    It subtly counteracts the cliché that creative expression can save your life by making its protagonist a hipster Peter Pan whose creative expression is an excuse not to grow up.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 38 Nick Prigge
    The Man on Her Mind
    The film suggests an ineffectual mishmash of Ruby Sparks-ish high concept and modern Elizabethan comedy.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 38 Nick Prigge
    The Calling
    The premise of faith-based assisted suicide as a motivating factor for a madman's killing spree is initially intriguing, but quickly revealed as solemn window dressing.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 63 Nick Prigge
    May in the Summer
    Cherien Dabis is least successful at connecting her character May's marital crisis to the rumblings of her repressed heritage.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 50 Nick Prigge
    The Maid's Room
    Drina is less of an individual, and one whom we wish to see avenged, than a transparent martyr for the collective sins of the wealthy few.
    • 18 Metascore
    • 50 Nick Prigge
    Behaving Badly
    Falls back on the trappings of the film's innumerable teenage gross-out forefathers with tiresome vulgarity and rote misunderstandings in place of genuine insight.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Nick Prigge
    The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz
    The film is far from a technical matter, fiercely promoting Swartz's legacy and challenging us with the same questions its central subject was compelled to ask.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Nick Prigge
    Coherence
    The film's impression of personas is less traditionally sinister than representative of its inquiry into identity and what happens when social barriers begin to fall away.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 50 Nick Prigge
    Lullaby
    Garrett Hedlund's performance throbs with an anguish that's far more honest than the sentimental euthanasia subplot at the center of the film.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 63 Nick Prigge
    Filth
    Ultimately, the film is too nihilistic to believe its protagonist can be saved, declaring him a lost soul and satisfied to let him suffer.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 38 Nick Prigge
    God's Pocket
    Throughout, it becomes difficult to know whether we're meant to empathize with these characters or laugh at them.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 63 Nick Prigge
    Beneath the Harvest Sky
    It flourishes in the spaces between the plot's necessary setups and subsequent payoffs, which is nearly enough to redeem the film if not for the narrative going belly up in the third act.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Nick Prigge
    13 Sins
    Daniel Stamm's film is solidly helmed, if expectedly over-reliant on unnecessarily grisly comeuppances that leave nothing to the imagination.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 63 Nick Prigge
    Brothers Hypnotic
    There are grudges held amid all the good will, an intention of the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble to do things on their terms, and those terms stem directly from their upbringing.

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