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 1,473 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: 651 out of 1473
  2. Mixed: 491 out of 1473
  3. Negative: 331 out of 1473
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 83 Nick Schager
    Meanwhile on Earth
    Resembling an ethereal and despondent companion piece to Jonathan Glazer’s "Under the Skin," it’s a genre effort that’s off the beaten path—even if an invisible path is precisely what its protagonist traverses.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Nick Schager
    Small Things Like These
    The acclaimed star delivers a masterclass in silent expressiveness, and he proves the riveting axis around which Tim Mielants’ precise and deft feature revolves.
    • 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.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 85 Nick Schager
    Juror #2
    Another of Eastwood’s inquiries into the nature of justice, the limits of the legal system to attain it, and the possible need, in that case, to take matters into one’s own hands.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 68 Nick Schager
    Memoir of a Snail
    No matter its hopeful closing notes, it’s a downer of epic proportions, its action encased in a shroud of loss, loneliness, and depression that’s at once bracing and taxing.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 50 Nick Schager
    Here
    Affected and artificial to the point of aggravation, it’s an interminably draggy endeavor that gives the lie to its oft-spoken phrase, “Time flies.”
    • 78 Metascore
    • 85 Nick Schager
    The Remarkable Life of Ibelin
    Told with a sensitivity that’s matched by its subtlety, it earns the waterworks it quickly and consistently elicits.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 70 Nick Schager
    Chris Brown: A History of Violence
    A harrowing documentary recap of Brown’s unseemly track record with women.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 68 Nick Schager
    Venom: The Last Dance
    If this truly is the pair’s big-screen goodbye, at least it ends on a fittingly wacko note of pure, unadulterated sentimentality.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Nick Schager
    Fanatical: The Catfishing of Tegan and Sara
    An investigation into the myriad means by which the internet can be wielded to nefarious ends.
    • 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.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Nick Schager
    Smile 2
    [Finn's] second feature may not be as consistent a rollercoaster ride as his maiden effort, but it gets the job done frequently enough to be a chart-topper.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Nick Schager
    Blitz
    A narratively and emotionally disjointed journey, its fine lead performances, moving details, and racial commentary never cohering into an affecting spectacular.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 50 Nick Schager
    Terrifier 3
    Terrifier 3 is a juvenile splatterfest with an ignorable plot, and its performances veer from the competent (LaVera and Thornton) to the inept (most everyone else).
    • 84 Metascore
    • 83 Nick Schager
    Universal Language
    An off-kilter creation that feels like the wacko offspring of Aki Kaurismäki and Abbas Kiarostami’s cinemas.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 75 Nick Schager
    Carville: Winning Is Everything, Stupid!
    A non-fiction affirmation of Carville’s belief that you can’t affect change without power, and you can’t attain power without winning.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 40 Nick Schager
    Joker: Folie à Deux
    So determined to avoid satisfying fans that it’s borderline antagonistic, as actively hostile to genre conventions as its protagonist is to the world at large.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 50 Nick Schager
    The Menendez Brothers
    It’s quite a shortcoming when a documentary avoids so many elements of its own story that it proves less comprehensive and compelling than a Ryan Murphy drama.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 78 Nick Schager
    Hold Your Breath
    In a genre overly taken as of late with “elevated” trauma scares, its gritty, skillful menace is a breath of fresh air.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 85 Nick Schager
    It's What's Inside
    Cares far less about scares than thrills, and it generates plenty of giddy ones as it mires its characters in a predicament of head-spinning proportions.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 68 Nick Schager
    Salem's Lot
    A reasonably faithful and effective thriller, light on legitimate frights but polished and unnerving.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 55 Nick Schager
    Nickel Boys
    Its formal showmanship unconvincing and off-putting, the film is a case study in the hazards of prizing style over substance.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 40 Nick Schager
    Apartment 7A
    What ensues is the exact same thing that happened to Mia Farrow’s wife, except minus the creepy surprise and, thus, any reason to pay attention.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 55 Nick Schager
    Megalopolis
    A daring saga that boasts far more moments that stumble than soar. It’s a mess that can be admired—but a mess, nonetheless.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 65 Nick Schager
    Jailbreak: Love on the Run
    Flails in trying to cast itself as a heartening story about seizing happiness, but as a snapshot of the foolhardy acts that amour can drive sane individuals to commit, it plays as an eye-opening cautionary tale.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 85 Nick Schager
    The Substance
    Pushes everything past the point of moderation and decency until it becomes a riotous discourse on the personal and cultural forces that drive women to madness in search of physical perfection.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 55 Nick Schager
    Never Let Go
    What’s missing, however, is a payoff worthy of his set-up, resulting in a diverting thriller that drags its way to an underwhelming finale.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 83 Nick Schager
    The Girl with the Needle
    As grim, and transfixing, as they come.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 57 Nick Schager
    Uglies
    To say that it’s a fourth-generation knock-off of myriad similar YA sagas that have come before it would be an understatement.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 90 Nick Schager
    The End
    With his maiden foray into drama, the writer/director continues to prove himself one of modern cinema’s true greats.
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