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 1,486 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 43% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 52% 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 Cielo
Lowest review score: 0 Vampires Suck
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 660 out of 1486
  2. Mixed: 495 out of 1486
  3. Negative: 331 out of 1486
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Nick Schager
    The Teachers' Lounge
    It boasts some of the nerve-wracking anxiety of Uncut Gems and the keenness of last year’s standout Playground, even if it doesn't eventually pull off its delicate tightrope act.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Nick Schager
    Occupied City
    Overwhelms via length and monotony, employing a challenging form that’s both its greatest strength and, ultimately, its most frustrating weakness.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 90 Nick Schager
    Perfect Days
    A sweet and sad slice-of-life about the comfort and sorrow of solitary repetition, buoyed by a Yakusho performance that rightly earned him the Best Actor prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 45 Nick Schager
    Aquaman And The Lost Kingdom
    A franchise farewell so underwhelming, nary a tear will be shed over its passing.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 60 Nick Schager
    Freud's Last Session
    A stately affair that’s never particularly intellectually incisive or revealing, and its stolid execution fails to transcend the material’s inherent staginess.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 45 Nick Schager
    The Family Plan
    Cheerfully dumb and dutifully formulaic, it’s “content” in the worst sense of the term.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 60 Nick Schager
    The Boys in the Boat
    Hits many of the right feel-good notes. Unfortunately, it also strikes a lot of discordant ones, neutering most of its attempts at rousing inspiration.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 45 Nick Schager
    Rebel Moon Part 1: A Child of Fire
    This misbegotten attempt at creating a new out-of-this-world Snyderverse is merely a knockoff dressed up in its director’s stylistic signatures.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 58 Nick Schager
    The Iron Claw
    Blame for this sports drama’s shallow leadenness can’t be similarly pinned on the supernatural; instead, its shortcomings are attributable to a one-dimensional script and resultant performances that are far less nuanced than its headliners’ ripped bodies.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 65 Nick Schager
    Concrete Utopia
    Its lack of originality is at least partially offset by its gripping depiction of intolerance and exclusion as impediments to survival.
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    • 80 Nick Schager
    Great Photo, Lovely Life
    A gut-wrenching saga about illuminating the darkest corners of private lives, and about the difficulty—and perhaps unjustness—of genuine Christian forgiveness.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 40 Nick Schager
    Wonka
    Unoriginal and ungainly at every turn, it’s a debacle devoid of any genuine magic.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 85 Nick Schager
    Godzilla Minus One
    As Toho Studios’ new Godzilla Minus One proves, the Japanese know how to get the iconic radioactive behemoth right.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 90 Nick Schager
    Menus Plaisirs - Les Troisgros
    A film that, regardless of its easy-going pace, demands active engagement with its action—a request that’s innately in tune with its depiction of creation through dialogue.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 85 Nick Schager
    Monster
    One of the director’s finest, its thematic scope and emotional power growing with each new revelation.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Nick Schager
    Napoleon
    Envisions Napoleon as a complex mix of the imposing and the absurd, his dreams of conquest—and single-minded ability to make them a reality—matched by his folly and awkwardness.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 80 Nick Schager
    Thanksgiving
    Thanksgiving is less a cheap rollercoaster ride than a faithfully grisly throwback, complete with more than a few subtle (and not-so-subtle) shout-outs to Halloween, A Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday the 13th.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Nick Schager
    Albert Brooks: Defending My Life
    Both a comprehensive primer and a nostalgic celebration, it successfully makes the case that few 20th-century funnymen were as daring, pioneering, or outright amusing.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 70 Nick Schager
    Saltburn
    Never more than skin-deep and ultimately overstays its welcome but which comes alive when—especially in its latter half—it indulges in its most wildly deviant impulses.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 55 Nick Schager
    The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
    This rote affair would deserve the designation “for fans only,” if not for the sneaking suspicion that even they won’t be wowed by this return trip to Panem.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 65 Nick Schager
    Dream Scenario
    The film is moment-to-moment lively, sharp, and funny. Too bad that, like a dream, its pleasures are all over the place, and dissipate almost as quickly as they arrive.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 45 Nick Schager
    The Marvels
    An irrelevant B-team affair which further suggests that the MCU can’t survive, short- or long-term, without the active participation of its most famous characters.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 50 Nick Schager
    Sly
    Provides only some of his story, its up-close-and-personal view masking as much as it reveals.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 80 Nick Schager
    No Accident
    Jacobson’s documentary resounds as merely a small victory in an ongoing war.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 60 Nick Schager
    The Devil on Trial
    The Devil on Trial still allows David and others to argue that demonic possession did take place, but given the evidence on display, many will likely find that up for considerable debate.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 80 Nick Schager
    Suitable Flesh
    An affectionate homage that captures the psychosexual delirium of its genre inspirations, it’s a throwback chiller steeped in blood, kink, and the terrifying thrill of violation.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 93 Nick Schager
    The Killer
    It’s arguably the greatest expression yet of Fincher’s style and worldview—caustic, unrelenting, and wickedly funny.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Nick Schager
    Milli Vanilli
    A cautionary tale about…making “a pact with the devil.” However, Milli Vanilli doesn’t have much to reveal that isn’t by now well-known pop lore.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Nick Schager
    Silver Dollar Road
    When it comes to its central legal struggle, though, it leaves out so many crucial details that it cuts itself off at the knees.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 55 Nick Schager
    Nyad
    Just as there’s no reference to the many falsehoods Diana has apparently told about her past, there’s zero overt mention of the controversy surrounding her signature triumph—thereby proving that the film cares more about rah-rah uplift than thorny inquiry or messy reality.
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