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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    • 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.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 40 Nick Schager
    It Ends with Us
    Devoid of plausible characterizations, decision-making, and plotting, it’s a dud of epic proportions—literally, as its 130-minute runtime makes it feel like it’ll never end.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 35 Nick Schager
    Borderlands
    So drearily routine and slapdash that even an A.I. would deem it too plagiaristic.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 75 Nick Schager
    Trap
    As a pulpy game of cat-and-mouse, however, it provides enough thrills to compensate for its illogicalities, and in Josh Harnett, it boasts a star adept at locating the fiendishness in fatherhood.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 50 Nick Schager
    The Instigators
    The sole thing it instigates is frustration over its lethargic unoriginality.
    • 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.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 83 Nick Schager
    Deadpool & Wolverine
    As with its predecessors, those who can’t stand Deadpool or aren’t educated in Marvel movie lore won’t tolerate a second of it. The rest will be in bleeping heaven.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 85 Nick Schager
    Dìdi
    A superb coming-of-age saga that lives in the intersection of youthful euphoria, despair, insecurity, irresponsibility, and fearlessness.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 85 Nick Schager
    Hollywoodgate
    Suggests that the Taliban are engaged in an elaborate role-playing performance for which they’re unqualified.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Nick Schager
    Crossing
    Akin doesn’t untangle his main character’s inner life; rather, he simply recognizes that healing is a process that both begins with oneself and is aided by those we allow into our lives and hearts.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 58 Nick Schager
    Twisters
    By minimizing its predecessor’s goofiness in favor of vacuous character drama, winds up only sporadically kicking into gale-force gear.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 88 Nick Schager
    Oddity
    It’s a feature debut that portends big things for the up-and-coming filmmaker.
    • 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.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 30 Nick Schager
    The Mandela Effect Phenomenon
    A documentary that not only formally resembles a conspiracy-minded YouTube post, but is about as reliable and convincing as one.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Nick Schager
    Fly Me to the Moon
    Aiming for the stars, it proves a laborious affair that rarely gets off the ground.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 83 Nick Schager
    Kill
    A model midnight-movie beat-’em-up.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 45 Nick Schager
    Despicable Me 4
    Kids will undoubtedly chuckle at their familiar exploits; the rest will view the film as an excuse to take a nice air-conditioned nap.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 68 Nick Schager
    Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F
    Far better than anticipated (or has any right to be), thanks in large part to Murphy recapturing some of the wisecracking magic that originally made Axel a sensation.
    • 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.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Nick Schager
    A Quiet Place: Day One
    Courtesy of an intense lead performance from Lupita Nyong’o, it packs a moderate silent-but-deadly punch.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 55 Nick Schager
    Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1
    So expansive and incomplete that it resembles a modern television series awkwardly edited into feature form.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 70 Nick Schager
    TikTok Star Murders
    A 21st-century cautionary tale about the desire for fame and the platforms which make that dream seem so easily attainable.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 50 Nick Schager
    The Exorcism
    Silly and slipshod, it’s not the role that will catapult the acclaimed actor back into the types of projects he deserves.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 85 Nick Schager
    The Devil's Bath
    A fiery sermon of despondency and damnation, as well as a memorable nightmare of marriage, motherhood, and madness.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 78 Nick Schager
    The Bikeriders
    Unabashedly romanticizing its subjects as paragons of strength and style, it doesn’t have much substance lurking beneath its surface—but then, with a surface like this, it doesn’t really need any.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Nick Schager
    Kinds of Kindness
    Alternately electric and maddening, it’s likely to polarize audiences more than any multiplex offering this year.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 75 Nick Schager
    Hacking Hate
    A morass of the worst of humanity and, also, a tech industry that seems perfectly comfortable profiting from it.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 80 Nick Schager
    Tell Them You Love Me
    Destined—depending on one’s perspective on this matter—to inspire either heartfelt sympathy or blood-boiling outrage.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Nick Schager
    Psycho Therapy: The Shallow Tale of a Writer Who Decided to Write About a Serial Killer
    A tale whose creative inspiration seems to be Three’s Company—and that’s not a compliment.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 65 Nick Schager
    They're Here
    Cares less about saying something significant than about imparting quirky vibes.
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