Nicolas Rapold

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For 540 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 31% higher than the average critic
  • 7% same as the average critic
  • 62% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 7.8 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Nicolas Rapold's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 58
Highest review score: 100 Mustang
Lowest review score: 0 Neander-Jin: The Return of the Neanderthal Man
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 204 out of 540
  2. Mixed: 285 out of 540
  3. Negative: 51 out of 540
540 movie reviews
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Nicolas Rapold
    Kung Fu Killer
    Mr. Chen, who teamed with Mr. Yen for the superior “Bodyguards and Assassins,” scatters references to Hong Kong martial arts classics. But while he has impressive fists of fury in both Mr. Yen and Mr. Wang, Kung Fu Killer lacks the brio and spice of its ancestors.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 60 Nicolas Rapold
    Freaks vs. the Reich
    Its splashy, curiously filter-free adventures unfold in Italy and Germany during World War II, to sometimes awkward effect.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Nicolas Rapold
    Yakuza Apocalypse
    Mr. Miike’s narrative model is essentially the Kool-Aid commercials of the 1980s: Periodically, somebody new bursts into the room or onto the street, and a fight or something bizarre takes place.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Nicolas Rapold
    Amerikatsi
    It’s an intriguing scenario, though not always played out skillfully. For better and worse, we feel Charlie’s confinement fully, as he watches another’s life go by and yearns for a proper home of his own.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Nicolas Rapold
    Nénette
    Like most primates, Nénette is both fascinatingly familiar and strange, capable of almost human expressions yet totally unknowable (as well as massive and hairy).
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Nicolas Rapold
    The Heart Machine
    This New York drama in some ways finds new names for age-old insecurities among men and women, though it doesn’t entirely deliver on its promising buildup.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 60 Nicolas Rapold
    Low Down
    Low Down stumbles into the pitfalls of both addiction narratives and observer-style autobiography, even if Ms. Albany’s memoir suggests even rougher times. But it still catches in-between moments of closeness that aren’t always seen or heard.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 60 Nicolas Rapold
    I Love America
    Marceau beams with unshakable good vibes, like a lion in the sun, though that makes her woes feel not so woeful. But Azuelos’s film does glimpse moments that feel true to the sometimes strange complexity of emotions.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Nicolas Rapold
    The Circle
    The sense of an invisible world being revealed is more potent than the film’s fairly standard portrayal of closeted life.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Nicolas Rapold
    Breakfast with Curtis
    Desultory, dauntingly DIY but secretly efficient, Breakfast With Curtis is something like a leafy summer afternoon in movie form.
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