Nick Schager

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Film Journal International, Slant Magazine, The A.V. Club, The Daily Beast, The Dissolve, The Playlist, Time Out, Variety, Village Voice
For 1,474 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 42% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 53% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 8.8 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Nick Schager's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 57
Highest review score: 100 Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
Lowest review score: 0 I Send You This Place
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 652 out of 1474
  2. Mixed: 491 out of 1474
  3. Negative: 331 out of 1474
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 88 Nick Schager
    Last Summer
    A drama expertly modulated to raise both eyebrows and pulse rates, led by a superb Léa Drucker performance that’s rooted in uncontrollable self-destructive passions and intense self-preservation instincts.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 83 Nick Schager
    Influencers
    A taut, tense, of-the-moment thriller with real (reel?) bite.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 40 Nick Schager
    The Mighty Macs
    It's a saga whose clichéd corniness would be practically sinful if not for the mighty Gugino, who almost counteracts the material's pap with megawatt charm and steel-tough resolve - exemplified by a low-angled intro shot of the poised, strutting, tight-sweater-sexy actress.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 90 Nick Schager
    The Invisible Woman
    The Invisible Woman finds Ralph Fiennes proving as adept behind the camera as he is in front of it.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Nick Schager
    Tanna
    Subtly visualizing the connection shared between the land and its people (and their interior conditions), Tanna proves rich in both sociological detail and roiling emotions.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 87 Nick Schager
    Send Help
    A joyous return to form for the Evil Dead auteur, whose no-holds-barred verve is equaled by that of Rachel McAdams.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Nick Schager
    Destination Unknown
    Survival is depicted as a double-edged sword in Destination Unknown, an accomplished and heartrending documentary.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 90 Nick Schager
    Civil War
    A towering genre film about a not-so-fanciful end times—one that both understands, and proves, the peerless power of the visual image.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 85 Nick Schager
    Together
    A giddy grotesquerie that has midnight-movie crowd-pleaser written all over it.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 40 Nick Schager
    A Boy Called Po
    Noble intentions alone do not a great movie make, as evidenced by Po, whose heart is in the right place but whose drama is woefully lacking in momentum.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Nick Schager
    The Baltimorons
    This funny and charming slice-of-life tale has the spirit of a low-fi ’70s romantic comedy, complete with characters who resonate as authentic inhabitants of their particular time and place.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 50 Nick Schager
    The Set-Up
    Robert Wise’s The Set-Up isn’t noir by any serious definition, its boilerplate fatalism undone by overbearing moralizing and the fact that Ryan’s boxer is too one-dimensionally good to register as tragic.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 30 Nick Schager
    Courageous
    Borderline creepy, Courageous endlessly expounds on the importance of God in men's lives but fails to answer the more pressing question of why religious sagas such as this treat subtlety as a sin.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Nick Schager
    When Evil Lurks
    Delivering scares at a pace that rarely allows one to catch their breath, and with enough gruesome surprises to consistently startle.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Nick Schager
    Polite Society
    Celebrates feminist independence and rage, even as it embraces the conventions of its many cinematic and pop culture influences.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 87 Nick Schager
    Bring Her Back
    With an unhinged Sally Hawkins spearheading its mayhem, this sinister saga firmly establishes the filmmakers’ place near the head of the contemporary horror class.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 90 Nick Schager
    Vision Portraits
    Bolstered by the writer-director’s own journey, recounted via a collage-like aesthetic that eloquently conveys his circumscribed condition, it’s a nonfiction study of artistic creation and, also, of individual courage and perseverance.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 83 Nick Schager
    Microbe and Gasoline
    Buoyed by a script brimming with authentic back-and-forth ribbing and confessional exchanges, newcomers Baquet and Dargent exhibit an alternately ribald and frank rapport that, like the film itself, taps into the volatile anxiety of finding one’s self.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 65 Nick Schager
    The Equalizer 3
    As self-contained as any episode of the television show upon which it’s based. It’s also as efficient and straightforward as that predecessor, if not quite as disposable, thanks to its peerless star.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 85 Nick Schager
    Sister Midnight
    A delightfully zonked marital satire that lurches in various demented directions.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Nick Schager
    Rebuilding
    A lyrical tale of combatting misfortune via community.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 50 Nick Schager
    Point Blank
    Fred Cavayé shoots his action with both vigorous propulsion and visual lucidity. Unfortunately, however, his story's revelations, all of which are related to a recent corporate bigwig's assassination, arrive at least two-to-three scenes after they've already become obvious.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 91 Nick Schager
    Ingrid Bergman in Her Own Words
    The use of the actress’ own archival material in 'In Her Own Words' results in a tribute to both her titanic career, and to her belief in the movies’ capacity to safeguard the past, and to maintain it long after its makers are gone.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 85 Nick Schager
    A House of Dynamite
    A timely cautionary tale whose overwhelming suspense is apt to leave viewers sick with dread.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 12 Nick Schager
    Another Happy Day
    Hell is family in Another Happy Day, a portrait of one clan's reunion for a wedding that overflows with characters even more repugnant than the irony of its groan-worthy title.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 50 Nick Schager
    Scheherazade Tell Me a Story
    An Egyptian feminist tale told with both affecting compassion and made-for-TV corniness.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Nick Schager
    They Died with Their Boots On
    Even if historical erroneousness intermittently undermines the film’s outlandish attempts at lionization, They Died with Their Boots On endures as one of the finest Flynn-de Havilland collaborations, providing a grand stage for the duo’s playful, poignant rapport.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 38 Nick Schager
    Frankenweenie
    Tim Burton's sense of playfulness feels forced throughout, and as the film progresses, any humor or inventiveness takes a backseat to tumultuous set pieces that reference Frankenstein.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Nick Schager
    The Burial
    As appealing a turn as the Oscar-winning actor has given, and it does much to elevate this inspired-by-real events tale of unlikely alliances and an even more improbable victory.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 20 Nick Schager
    Goats
    Incapable of energizing Mark Poirier's leaden script (based on his own novel), Christopher Neil directs with a mechanical blandness made more tedious still by a score of gentle guitar strumming so aggravatingly benign it might inspire you to partake in one of Wendy's climactic, cathartic primal screams.
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