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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    • 80 Metascore
    • 90 Nick Schager
    Trophy
    Trophy’s wealth of conflicting facts, figures, and arguments routinely force one to re-calibrate their feelings about the issues at hand. The result is a lament for both the animals at the center of so many crosshairs, and for a modern world seemingly only capable of saving lives by taking them.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 90 Nick Schager
    Miroirs No. 3
    A beguiling psychodrama about familial fractures, slippery identity, and the difficult means by which people move on from tragedy.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Nick Schager
    April
    An alternately (and sometimes simultaneously) harrowing and hallucinatory story of an OB-GYN who discovers that her every attempt at nurturing life leads only to more death.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Nick Schager
    28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
    As the fourth entry in a long-running franchise (written, like its ancestors, by Alex Garland), it is, to borrow a phrase uttered by its protagonist, “miraculous”—and marks this zombie saga as a nightmare with few equals.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 90 Nick Schager
    Longlegs
    A thriller that grows fouler and scarier with each step toward damnation, as well as providing an unforgettable showcase for Nicolas Cage as a zealous maniac unlike any other.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 88 Nick Schager
    The Deepest Breath
    A story of courage, trust and tragedy, the last of which materializes in ways that are at once shattering and uplifting.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 88 Nick Schager
    Anora
    More impressive than its nimbleness, however, is its poise and empathy, the latter of which is chiefly bestowed upon its protagonist.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 88 Nick Schager
    Sorry, Baby
    A breakout (produced by Barry Jenkins) that heralds Victor as an idiosyncratic and exciting new American artist.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 88 Nick Schager
    They Drive by Night
    They Drive by Night never coalesces into a coherent whole, but as far as sturdy ’40s Hollywood melodramas go, it’s a pretty sweet two-for-one movie deal.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 88 Nick Schager
    Misericordia
    A superb thriller that employs common genre devices for a canny and caustic rumination on right and wrong, love and lust, virtue and vice.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 88 Nick Schager
    Obsession
    A deliriously pointed cautionary tale about the perils of getting what you want, and an instant contender for classic midnight-movie status.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 88 Nick Schager
    El Velador
    El Velador doesn't pass judgment or manipulate emotionally, instead choosing simply to consider the arduousness of survival in a land wracked by slaughter.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 88 Nick Schager
    undertone
    A medley of fears, anxieties, and regrets that repeatedly messes with the senses, it exists at the nexus of sanity and madness, life and death, Heaven and Hell, and sound and image.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 88 Nick Schager
    Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man
    A rousing elegy to an underworld saga par excellence and, in particular, to a ruthless and tormented gangster whom, in Murphy’s expert hands, stands as an undisputed crime-fiction icon.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 88 Nick Schager
    Dracula
    A raucous mélange of the demented and the degrading, indulging in the very garish, grotesque, X-rated madness it condemns.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 88 Nick Schager
    Hokum
    This creepy nerve-rattler confirms that the director’s excellent 2024 breakout Oddity was no fluke.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 88 Nick Schager
    Babygirl
    Boasting an exceptional Nicole Kidman performance as a woman recklessly in search of who she is and what she wants—as well as the orgasm that she’s long coveted—it’s a thrilling and amusing shot of cinematic Viagra.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 88 Nick Schager
    Vermiglio
    Pulsates with harsh, anguished emotion, thanks in no small part to splendid visuals that make it the most beautiful film of the year.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 88 Nick Schager
    Rose of Nevada
    A dreamy tale of loss and grief, death and resurrection, as well as a supernatural reverie about the mysterious relationship between the present and past—one in which the living are reborn as ghosts.
    • 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.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 88 Nick Schager
    Good One
    A quietly explosive tale of disconnection and betrayal, its placid exterior masking a wellspring of combustible tensions that are both impossible to ignore and difficult to resolve.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 88 Nick Schager
    Dune: Part Two
    [Boasting] an ambitious and exhilarating story that matches its style, it’s the finest thing Villeneuve has helmed and the 2024 film to beat for outsized sci-fi showmanship.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 88 Nick Schager
    Reflection in a Dead Diamond
    Strap in, hold on, and succumb to this ecstatically inventive one-of-a-kind film.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 88 Nick Schager
    Bellflower
    Evan Glodell's debut has the sweetness of a lullaby reverie and the blazing ferocity of a monster-car nightmare, a first-comes-elation, then-comes-madness structure that resembles that of "Blue Valentine," another tale focused on the commencement, and then collapse, of an affair.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 88 Nick Schager
    Ferrari
    Painting a multifaceted portrait of the racing legend during a particular moment of personal and professional crises, the auteur’s first feature since 2015’s Blackhat hums with steely passion and pain.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 88 Nick Schager
    Anatomy of a Fall
    Both understands our private relations as enigmas to those on the outside, as well as wields that mystery for a subtle, striking examination of the imaginative means by which we fill in personal and collective blanks.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 88 Nick Schager
    The Long Walk
    Casts itself as a frightening saga about tyranny’s capacity to acclimate its subjects to slaughter and slavery, and to coerce them into performing (and celebrating) self-destruction under the guise of unity, strength, and progress.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 88 Nick Schager
    Stalker
    Subscribing to the belief that the eyes are the windows to the soul, Tarkovsky locates Stalker’s spiritual center in his protagonists’ weathered countenances.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 88 Nick Schager
    I'm Still Here
    A peerless example of using exacting form to not simply inform and enhance content, but to create a profound link between movie and moviegoer.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 88 Nick Schager
    Omaha
    A model of tone, concision, and emotional and psychological insight, led by a staggering performance from John Magara and an equally moving one from pint-sized co-star Molly Belle Wright.
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