Nico Lang

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For 24 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 58% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 38% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 1.4 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Nico Lang's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 64
Highest review score: 100 Krisha
Lowest review score: 16 Mr. Church
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 14 out of 24
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 24
  3. Negative: 6 out of 24
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    • 89 Metascore
    • 100 Nico Lang
    Elle
    Elle, like all of Verhoeven’s films, refuses easy categorization. It combines elements of a rape revenge thriller, an extremely dark class comedy and Cronenbergian body horror to create something totally unique — a singular experience that transcends genre.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Nico Lang
    20th Century Women
    Despite the gender gap between the film’s creator and his subjects, the film is beautifully perceptive and, at times, deeply poignant. Mills has created the kind of comedy in which you laugh with recognition because its dilemmas feel so familiar.
    • 93 Metascore
    • 100 Nico Lang
    Toni Erdmann
    What makes Toni Erdmann, the finest comedy in recent memory, so wonderful and beguiling is the deep undercurrent of sadness that informs its eventual life lessons.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 83 Nico Lang
    13th
    13th — at times dampened by its own enormous ambitions — would be even more effective if it tried to do a little less.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 91 Nico Lang
    Paterson
    One of the director’s finest to date, the film derives its unique power from the repetition of daily life, elevating the mundane to a kind of divinity.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 67 Nico Lang
    Gimme Danger
    Gimme Danger checks the usual rock doc boxes, but it succeeds because of its smashing subject matter. The Stooges may not be the greatest musical act in history, but they are one of the most lively subjects for a documentary.
    • 99 Metascore
    • 100 Nico Lang
    Moonlight
    Under Jenkins’ direction, Moonlight is both haunting and poetic, a bittersweet elegy for what could have been. His unflinching camera, which tends to follow the film’s characters like a ghost, gives the film a startling immediacy and emotional power.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Nico Lang
    Café Society
    a great deal of Café Society is shaggy and unfocused, it’s at least pleasing in its shapelessness. Café Society is not quite one of Woody Allen’s best, but it’s good enough to make you hope that he never leaves old Hollywood. The era suits him.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 75 Nico Lang
    Equals
    Equals is composed of small, sensual moments which build to a climax that feels both gut-wrenching and potently universal, like an old torch song to which you already know all the words.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Nico Lang
    Love & Friendship
    Love & Friendship is easily the funniest movie Whit Stillman has ever made. His bristling screenplay — which shows shades of Noël Coward and Evelyn Waugh — has so many impeccable one-liners that it would take three or four viewings to catch them all.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 67 Nico Lang
    The Family Fang
    What’s most unfortunate is that The Family Fang leaves so many ideas on the table that would have made for a far more fascinating film, one befitting its unique premise.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 67 Nico Lang
    King Cobra
    King Cobra is a movie that’s just good enough to make you wish it were even better.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 67 Nico Lang
    Elvis & Nixon
    Elvis & Nixon will not go down as the best movie you’ll see this year, but it very well may be among the most purely entertaining.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Nico Lang
    Krisha
    Krisha, directed by first-timer Trey Edward Shults, is a masterful opera of discomfort and hurt feelings.

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