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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    • 72 Metascore
    • 85 Nick Schager
    The Shrouds
    Mordantly, head-spinningly convoluted, it’s a unique take on the director’s favorite themes, laced with bleak wit and encased in an icy chill that’s fitting for a tale fixated on the grave.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 60 Nick Schager
    Sinners
    Never coherently articulates (or draws connections between) its various concerns, proving a handsomely horrific vampire bloodbath that, ahem, bites off more than it can chew.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 80 Nick Schager
    The Uninvited
    Gracefully balancing its lighter and darker concerns, it’s a witty ride whose poignancy—like adulthood itself—sneaks up on you.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 78 Nick Schager
    Drop
    A canny cautionary tale about the perils of looking for Mr. Right—and of keeping your phone powered on at dinner.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 90 Nick Schager
    Warfare
    A taut and terrifying portrait of courage under fire.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 55 Nick Schager
    G20
    Part Die Hard, part wish-fulfillment saga for a post-2024 present that didn’t come to pass, it’s a fantasy of feminist and U.S. might that’s chockablock with implausibilities.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 70 Nick Schager
    The Amateur
    Unsurprising from start to finish and yet proficiently executed thanks to its impressive cast, it’s the definition of serviceable.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Nick Schager
    Gazer
    Energized by Ariella Mastroianni’s disoriented and frazzled lead performance, it begins unnervingly and ends, like all such sagas should, with haunting bleakness.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 45 Nick Schager
    A Minecraft Movie
    Block-headed from start to finish, it’s cinema in service of nothing more than IP exploitation.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 45 Nick Schager
    The Woman in the Yard
    Even at a brisk 85 minutes, it’s a bigger slog than a day spent mowing the grass.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 55 Nick Schager
    Death of a Unicorn
    Unlike its unique and fantastical title creature, it’s a commonplace monster mash which serves up only frenzied commotion and tired social commentary.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 70 Nick Schager
    A Working Man
    A macho fantasy about a dad acting out his daughter-saving fantasy by rescuing a surrogate child, with Statham talking tough and acting tougher in typically forthright fashion.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 85 Nick Schager
    The Friend
    A compassionate portrait of mourning and the bonds that keep us united.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 80 Nick Schager
    Ash
    A hypnotic star child of out-there wonder and internal corruption and chaos.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 45 Nick Schager
    Snow White
    No Magic Mirror is needed to identify it as the lamest Mouse House re-do of them all.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Nick Schager
    The Alto Knights
    An ignominious tour-de-force for the esteemed headliner, who gets to indulge in just about every caricatured mannerism and colloquialism in the stale La Cosa Nostra cookbook.
    • 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.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 55 Nick Schager
    The Actor
    Burdened by a hazy and mannered style that drains it of urgency and feeling, it’s a self-conscious curio that’s less dreamy than dreary.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 55 Nick Schager
    Novocaine
    In trying to have it both ways, it succeeds in neither, in the process stranding its charming leading man in a saga that needed to be either goofier or more gruesome.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 35 Nick Schager
    The Parenting
    A dismal misfire that strains to meld Meet the Parents-style comedy with The Exorcist-grade horror.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 45 Nick Schager
    The Electric State
    The Electric State" is just about as derivative as a modern blockbuster can be, and worse is that it skates along from one cacophonous and jokey set piece to another as if on rails.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Nick Schager
    CHAOS: The Manson Murders
    For all its avenues of inquiry, however, it never quite gels into more than a collection of tantalizing but unfounded theories.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 90 Nick Schager
    Black Bag
    When it comes to sleek, stylish genre movies, Soderbergh remains a maestro at the top of his game.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 90 Nick Schager
    Eephus
    Modest and moving, it’s a new sports-movie classic, as sneakily effective as the pitch which gives it its title.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 80 Nick Schager
    In the Lost Lands
    For sheer unadulterated geekiness, it’s got few contemporary equals.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Nick Schager
    Mickey 17
    No matter a committed performance (two, actually) from Robert Pattinson, it’s an original that plays like a rehash—and an underwhelmingly unfunny one at that.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 85 Nick Schager
    The Rule of Jenny Pen
    True cinema is John Lithgow terrorizing Geoffrey Rush in a nursing home with his creepy hand puppet.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Nick Schager
    Last Breath
    What ultimately lingers more, however, is its portrait of the grit, determination, and sacrifice exhibited by these individuals—a stirring reminder that there’s nothing more noble than having your fellow man’s back.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 90 Nick Schager
    Kontinental '25
    At once incisive and ambiguous, it’s proof that Jude is operating on a completely different level than most of his contemporaries.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 85 Nick Schager
    The Monkey
    A unique saga of fathers, sons, and brothers, of fate, vengeance, and survival, and of a wind-up simian toy that just might be the Grim Reaper.
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