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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    • 57 Metascore
    • 80 Nick Schager
    The Gorge
    With leads Anya Taylor-Joy and Miles Teller generating considerable sparks, and violent set pieces that up the supernatural ante one out-there revelation at a time, the director’s latest proves a bonkers B-movie on a big-studio budget.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 75 Nick Schager
    Captain America: Brave New World
    [Ford’s] presence—along with a winning turn from Anthony Mackie as the patriotic title character—makes this adventure a sturdy return to franchise form.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 85 Nick Schager
    Paddington In Peru
    With wit, wonder, warmth, and a few wink-wink nods to the Indiana Jones movies, it’s further evidence of this franchise’s cute and cuddly preeminence.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 55 Nick Schager
    Parthenope
    As sumptuous and vapid as a commercial for Dior or Chanel’s latest fragrance.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 50 Nick Schager
    Love Hurts
    The main takeaway from this dreary dud, however, is that winning an Academy Award is no guarantee of continued big-screen success.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 70 Nick Schager
    Armand
    Reinsve reconfirms that she’s one of international cinema’s most electric presences, and her formidable performance is the axis around which this taut drama revolves.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Nick Schager
    Heart Eyes
    [A] bland stab at genre hybridization, whose sole accomplishment is falling flat at everything it tries.
    • 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.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 88 Nick Schager
    Sorry, Baby
    A breakout (produced by Barry Jenkins) that heralds Victor as an idiosyncratic and exciting new American artist.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 70 Nick Schager
    Didn't Die
    A somewhat slight homage with a strong voice and gentle twist rather than a wholly original work of terror.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 75 Nick Schager
    You're Cordially Invited
    Courtesy of charming and goofy performances by Will Ferrell and Reese Witherspoon as strangers who find themselves at war over their loved ones’ weddings, it’s amusing enough to do just fine on a screen of any size.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 90 Nick Schager
    2000 Meters to Andriivka
    A harrowing first-person view of a ceaseless nightmare, defined by both blistering immediacy and crushing sadness.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 95 Nick Schager
    Zodiac Killer Project
    The result is even better than his initial design: a sharp, hilarious, self-aware, and acutely insightful work of both celebration and critique.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 50 Nick Schager
    The Thing with Feathers
    An excruciatingly literal affair, not to mention a repetitive one, spinning in circles to dizzying, and ever-diminishing, ends.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 85 Nick Schager
    Together
    A giddy grotesquerie that has midnight-movie crowd-pleaser written all over it.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Nick Schager
    Rebuilding
    A lyrical tale of combatting misfortune via community.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 85 Nick Schager
    Predators
    Initially teasing a condemnation, only to come away with something less certain and more fascinating, it straddles various lines, and perspectives, with impressive confidence.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Nick Schager
    The Dating Game
    An illuminating look at a superpower in the throes of a burgeoning cultural catastrophe—and of a few of its myriad desperate-for-love men.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 83 Nick Schager
    André Is an Idiot
    This winning non-fiction portrait proves equally adept at eliciting laughs and tears.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Nick Schager
    Rabbit Trap
    Nothing—including a game performance by Dev Patel—can prevent it from tumbling down a bottomless hole from which it can’t escape.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 50 Nick Schager
    Bubble & Squeak
    No amount of narrative wackiness and star power can make [cabbages] or this Sundance Film Festival offering funny.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 85 Nick Schager
    The Things You Kill
    A quiet and formally rigorous portrait of a paternalistic society, the crimes it breeds, and the fury, shame, regret, and self-loathing that follows.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Nick Schager
    Mr. Nobody Against Putin
    An endearing, infuriating, and despairing non-fiction portrait of a country’s final descent into oppressive authoritarianism, all of it shot covertly by one brave teacher, it’s a striking work of rebel cinema.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Nick Schager
    Ricky
    A captivating character study about a young man trying to carve out a grown-up life despite having spent half of his years on Earth behind bars.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 83 Nick Schager
    Folktales
    With formal polish and deep compassion, it proves to be the most heartwarming film of this year’s Sundance Film Festival.
    • 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.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 55 Nick Schager
    If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
    Devolves into such a morass of shrill chaos and affected symbolism that it’s difficult to feel anything other than exasperation with its central maternal crisis.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Nick Schager
    The Ugly Stepsister
    A rather obvious and pedestrian lesson, if one that’s embellished with a few memorably macabre sights.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 55 Nick Schager
    By Design
    Those with a hankering for willfully pretentious absurdity may find this festival entry right up their alley.
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