Nick Schager

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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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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Nick Schager
    Booker's Place: A Mississippi Story
    Frank De Felitta's guilt over having aired the footage is moving, yet it's ultimately countered by this piercing film's stance - promoted by the subject's proud children and grandchildren - that Wright's statements, far from a slip of the tongue, were an intentional act of courageous defiance.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Nick Schager
    Bugonia
    Stone is a mesmerizing riot in this bleak satire of our current state of disorder—as is her co-star Jesse Plemons, who matches her intensity and manages to outdo her craziness.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Nick Schager
    The Nile Hilton Incident
    Like the finest noir, what springs forth from Saleh’s film is the dreary belief that the bad sleep well while the rest are left to suffer in the streets.
    • 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.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 80 Nick Schager
    Vicious
    A sly, sinister film about self-loathing, sacrifice, and the things people will do to survive—with a great tormented performance from Dakota Fanning at its center.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 80 Nick Schager
    Inheritance
    A successful experiment that’s highly attuned to the digital immediacy of our modern condition.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Nick Schager
    Ahead of Time
    It's Gruber's own remembrances (and a wealth of accompanying archival photos and film footage) that best mark her life as a case study in pioneering feminist courage, ambition and individualism.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Nick Schager
    Fastball
    A film that captures the underlying essence of baseball at the beginning of the 21st century: both humbly wistful and progressively cutting-edge.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Nick Schager
    Kung Fu Panda 2
    Jennifer Yuh Nelson's sequel delivers a bevy of superpowered set pieces that are dexterous and delirious, as well as tonally confident.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 80 Nick Schager
    Ash
    A hypnotic star child of out-there wonder and internal corruption and chaos.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 80 Nick Schager
    Summer Wars
    Summer Wars surprisingly celebrates togetherness and bravery as much as binary-mathematics expertise, all helped along by a kick-ass synthesis of traditional hand-drawn scenes and fluid, rainbow-explosive CG artistry.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 80 Nick Schager
    Nightbitch
    Resembling a bonkers marriage of “Young Tully” and “Teen Wolf,” and led by a ferociously naked and unafraid performance by its star, it’s an amusingly incisive howl of maternal pain, frustration, disappointment, resentment, and feral strength.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 80 Nick Schager
    Eternity
    Snappy, sweet, and moving, this crowd-pleasing winner starring Miles Teller, Elizabeth Olsen, and Callum Turner continues the genre’s much-needed revitalization.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Nick Schager
    Music by John Williams
    There may be no cinematic artist more deserving of a lionizing documentary than Williams, and that’s precisely what he receives from Music by John Williams.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Nick Schager
    Look Into My Eyes
    [Its] genuine focus is the emotional turmoil that drives people to practice this profession as well as to patronize its “experts” in search of guidance and insights into the biggest questions of their lives.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 80 Nick Schager
    The Rachel Divide
    The portrait it paints is sure to confound and infuriate in equal measure. Far from simply a snapshot of a discussion about race, Brownson’s documentary is a riveting account of self-sabotage, misplaced priorities, and obstinacy run amok.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Nick Schager
    Lurker
    Distinguishes itself by putting a distinctly 21st-century spin on its time-honored template, as well as via a black sense of humor.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Nick Schager
    Ricky
    A captivating character study about a young man trying to carve out a grown-up life despite having spent half of his years on Earth behind bars.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Nick Schager
    Mr. Nobody Against Putin
    An endearing, infuriating, and despairing non-fiction portrait of a country’s final descent into oppressive authoritarianism, all of it shot covertly by one brave teacher, it’s a striking work of rebel cinema.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Nick Schager
    Society of the Snow
    [Bayona's] finest film to date, and a fitting tribute to those who both perished and managed to escape their fateful mountain tomb.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 80 Nick Schager
    Cameraperson
    Without narration or a conventional storyline, it’s a uniquely insightful memoir-cum-critical-treatise.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 80 Nick Schager
    Betrayed
    Handsomely mounted and deftly dramatized, it’s an agonized study of suffering and treachery, and no less valuable — or powerful — for being regrettably familiar.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Nick Schager
    Good Boy
    With an aesthetic ingenuity to match its pooch’s impressively expressive performance, it’s a thriller that ably justifies its central gimmick.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Nick Schager
    Ick
    Playfully mocking today’s always-online, virtual-signaling teen generation while simultaneously embracing its bevy of old-school tropes, it’s exactly the sort of crowd-pleaser designed to be seen in a theater, after dark, with a rowdy audience.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 80 Nick Schager
    Bring Them Down
    Taut and mournful, it’s a lament for the mistakes made in anger, the wounds that fail to heal, and the past that never truly seems to be past at all.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Nick Schager
    Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die
    With Oscar-winner Sam Rockwell as its tempestuous engine, it’s a captivatingly silly saga about the pitfalls of our modern techno-obsessiveness.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 80 Nick Schager
    Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant
    A sober military thriller that excoriates Joe Biden’s decision to pull out of Afghanistan in 2021 and, in the process, to strand the thousands of local interpreters who had risked their lives to aid the American cause.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Nick Schager
    The Dating Game
    An illuminating look at a superpower in the throes of a burgeoning cultural catastrophe—and of a few of its myriad desperate-for-love men.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 80 Nick Schager
    Cuckoo
    A bewildering and gripping saga about reproduction, identity, and family that, at its finest, taps into a legitimately demented vein.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 80 Nick Schager
    Children of Tokyo
    The film retains a measure of tempered hope, born not simply from the father's command-cum-wish to his slumbering offspring ("Don't become a miserable apple-polisher like me, boys"), but also from a final act of youthful compassion that binds Ozu's intensely human characters in glass-half-full solidarity.
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