Richard Nilsen

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Arizona Republic
For 24 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 45% higher than the average critic
  • 8% same as the average critic
  • 47% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 1 point lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Richard Nilsen's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 65
Highest review score: 90 Farewell
Lowest review score: 20 Finding Joe
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 24
  2. Mixed: 13 out of 24
  3. Negative: 1 out of 24
24 movie reviews
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    • 46 Metascore
    • 40 Richard Nilsen
    The Flowers of War
    The film is cinematically brilliant but morally obtuse.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 60 Richard Nilsen
    Delicacy
    Delicacy is not a very good movie. But it is entertaining enough -- barely enough -- to make it worth seeing.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 60 Richard Nilsen
    Restless
    You also aren't sure what the film is about or if it's about anything at all, except fluid filmmaking.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Richard Nilsen
    Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame
    If you can ignore the implausibility -- nay, the opacity -- of the plot, the film is wonderfully cinematic, with great photography, exciting editing, fresh camera angles and some impressive CGI.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 50 Richard Nilsen
    The Whistleblower
    You come away from watching the film with a moral bellyache.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 60 Richard Nilsen
    Bride Flight
    None of the characters, save Ada, is interesting enough to sustain the creaky joints of the convention of the story mechanism.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Richard Nilsen
    Potiche
    It's also a head-scratcher: How did a movie this stubbornly old-fashioned ever get made by such a trendy French director as Francois Ozon.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 60 Richard Nilsen
    Henry's Crime
    Go for Caan and Farmiga, and stay to be surprised by Reeves.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Richard Nilsen
    Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky
    Two narcissists do not a couple make, and without any actual relationship, there really isn't a movie.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 60 Richard Nilsen
    Mao's Last Dancer
    It's hard to know whether to take it to task as a film critic or as a dance critic. It isn't that it fails on either level - it's a serviceable movie - but it neither attempts nor achieves much of value.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Richard Nilsen
    Micmacs
    Jeunet's new film, Micmacs, mixes the dark, claustrophobic world of "Delicatessen" and "City of Lost Children," with the happy-ending optimism of "Amélie" and "A Very Long Engagement." It isn't a convincing graft of moods.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 60 Richard Nilsen
    The Little Traitor
    Doesn't attempt much, doesn't accomplish much, doesn't offer much and doesn't leave you with anything memorable to take home with you.

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