Nikola Grozdanovic

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For 115 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 57% higher than the average critic
  • 1% same as the average critic
  • 42% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 0.8 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Nikola Grozdanovic's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 65
Highest review score: 100 Happy End
Lowest review score: 0 Rage
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 74 out of 115
  2. Mixed: 24 out of 115
  3. Negative: 17 out of 115
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 50 Nikola Grozdanovic
    Barbara
    Amalric puts all of the esoteric artistic tendencies that are part and parcel of the creative process into “Barbara” and comes up with an incoherent mess of a docu-drama. The entire film feels like a playful experiment that never evolves beyond a concept, like an unlit cigarette, never getting the spark it needs to fulfill its purpose.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 58 Nikola Grozdanovic
    Jupiter's Moon
    As visually arresting as Kornél Mundruczó’s latest film Jupiter’s Moon undoubtedly is, it remains too intellectually imprisoned within its own allegorical confines to make a truly positive impact.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Nikola Grozdanovic
    In the Fade
    Sadly, the core of ‘Fade’ is essentially banal, and the narrative is too blunt and inert to make any kind of lasting impression.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 50 Nikola Grozdanovic
    Among the Believers
    By pointing their camera at the Red Mosque, Trivedi and Naqvi add surprisingly little to the conversation.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 42 Nikola Grozdanovic
    Two Lovers and a Bear
    Fumbling between broad comedic strokes you’d find in a Disney film and the kind of darkness that usually creeps out of heavy Danish dramas, “Two Lovers And A Bear” is tonally off-kilter on top of failing to engage on any deeper level.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 42 Nikola Grozdanovic
    Rolling Papers
    The documentary struggles to remain relevant throughout its short run time, and wobbles between glorification and reflection until it completely tilts over.
    • 16 Metascore
    • 42 Nikola Grozdanovic
    London Fields
    Buried underneath the glop are interesting notions on reality, creation, and the nature of death. And thanks to its aesthetic, it's at least a very beautiful catastrophe.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 42 Nikola Grozdanovic
    The Program
    A couple of exhilarating cycling scenes, and a pretty solid lead performance, does not a good movie make.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 42 Nikola Grozdanovic
    When Animals Dream
    It’s a narrative vacuum big enough to make you mad at this melancholy werewolf drama for not being, at the very least, good.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Nikola Grozdanovic
    One & Two
    The silent scenes, which hold so much power in the first act, feel emptier and emptier, as the conclusion nears. Moments where Halpern’s score felt like it was adding to what was on screen, turn to moments where it’s compensating for the lack of interest.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 42 Nikola Grozdanovic
    The Kindergarten Teacher
    The Kindergarten Teacher is too lackadaisical in its execution to be as profound as it thinks it is.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 42 Nikola Grozdanovic
    Samba
    It’s a love story set in a contemporary world brimming with immigration issues, but it manages to be neither political drama, nor bubbly romance, somehow getting away with being labeled as a comedy.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Nikola Grozdanovic
    Boychoir
    Thanks to a few exemplary moments of monumental acting from Hoffman, truly harmonious singing from the boys, and a graceful score by Brian Byrne, Boychoir is, at its best, a comfortable viewing and listening pleasure.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 58 Nikola Grozdanovic
    R100
    As compelling as R100 is in spurts, it's ultimately an exercise in excessiveness that only a niche audience will be able to fully stomach.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 42 Nikola Grozdanovic
    Bad Hair
    With her underdeveloped, dismissive, screenplay and myopic direction, Rondòn is as delicate with her theme as Michael Bay is with his American flag shots or Tim Burton with his kitschy quirkiness. That hers is a serious context makes it that much more disappointing.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 42 Nikola Grozdanovic
    Camp X-Ray
    Camp X-Ray is as transparent in its message as the title suggests, and the scan shows a malignant tumor in the very bones of the film’s structure. An on-the-nose approach smothers all subtext into submission and leaves nothing of interest alive.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 58 Nikola Grozdanovic
    Open Windows
    While the execution may be somewhat of a misfire, the obvious effort and thought put into making the concept work is worthy.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 42 Nikola Grozdanovic
    The Riot Club
    All of that star-making and directorial grace Scherfig possesses is substituted for a bludgeoning attempt at provoking the British elite into taking a long hard look at themselves through a cracked mirror. She retains her confrontational sensibilities with none of the subtlety, and hammers a single message to mind-numbing effect.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 42 Nikola Grozdanovic
    A Little Chaos
    Some intriguing dialogue, and a closet full of fantastic frocks, can’t help an impressive ensemble cast save A Little Chaos from being a lackadaisical picture, far removed from anything remotely exciting as chaos.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 42 Nikola Grozdanovic
    Cake
    There are moments when the fabrication behind Claire’s arc breaks to reveal a real person, and the filmmaker’s have Aniston to thank for this, because it’s certainly not the bland dialogue or unremarkable events.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 42 Nikola Grozdanovic
    The November Man
    As far as the spy genre goes, Pierce Brosnan’s The November Man is more filler than thriller.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 42 Nikola Grozdanovic
    Saint Laurent
    Perhaps through time this hallucinatory quasi-dream of a biopic will grow in stature, but as first impressions go, the film loves itself so much it renders itself beautiful, but utterly shallow.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 42 Nikola Grozdanovic
    13 Sins
    This is one of those mind games that lean too heavily on the mindless to be thoroughly enjoyable, turning sadistic pleasure into harmless boredom.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 42 Nikola Grozdanovic
    Cesar's Last Fast
    Perez appears content with representing UFW's past strikes and boycotts like a segment from the History Channel, while having the interviewees—relatives, people who worked closely with Chavez—focus on how much good Chavez has done, rather than how he has impacted them.

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