Nicolas Rapold, Village Voice
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For 20 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 20% higher than the average critic
  • 10% same as the average critic
  • 70% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 3.9 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Nicolas Rapold's Scores

  • Movies
Average review score: 56
Highest review score:
Red White & Blue
Critic Score 80
Lowest review score:
Cool It
Critic Score 30
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 20
  2. Mixed: 12 out of 20
  3. Negative: 1 out of 20
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    • Metascore: 69
    • Nicolas Rapold 80
    The Last Lions
    Though floridly written and relentlessly scored, the film's dramas are more persuasively framed than many human ones, going so far as to include multiple flashbacks.
    • Metascore: 65
    • Nicolas Rapold 80
    Tyrannosaur
    Colman's performance comes as a revelation.
    • Metascore: 81
    • Nicolas Rapold 80
    Red White & Blue
    The pacing and performances are more organic than in most horror.
    • Metascore: 76
    • Nicolas Rapold 70
    Soul Kitchen
    Since the filmmaker's main agenda here is to keep things bumping along, the fraught situations are happily played and funk-scored as crowd-pleasing rather than issue-stroking.
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    • Metascore: 75
    • Nicolas Rapold 70
    The Invisible War
    The Invisible War, though revelatory, is perhaps the most straightforward film yet from a director who likes to broach the fault lines of sex and society.
    • Metascore: 73
    • Nicolas Rapold 60
    Cropsey
    Embracing what's really standard tabloid fodder of the decade with earnest engagement and doled-out suspense, Cropsey is one step from macabre comedy.
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    • Metascore: 48
    • Nicolas Rapold 50
    The Sicilian Girl
    The facts are more gripping than the filmmaking in Marco Amenta's routine docudrama about tenacious teen informer Rita Atria.
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    • Metascore: 71
    • Nicolas Rapold 50
    Mesrine: Killer Instinct
    Richet proves maddeningly loath to edit his material, and his charismatic star, Vincent Cassel, does not delve deep into the character.
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    • Metascore: 72
    • Nicolas Rapold 50
    Mesrine: Public Enemy No. 1
    Mesrine's promised end in November 1979 arrives as history recorded it, but, by that time, you're hoping the next vogue in biopics is the short film.
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    • Metascore: 68
    • Nicolas Rapold 50
    The Housemaid
    Despite eccentric touches, like a handheld street-shot overture and Grand Guignol Omen references, there's little difference between this story and soap-opera intrigue.
    • Metascore: 35
    • Nicolas Rapold 50
    Certifiably Jonathan
    The big-kid-bulky Dayton-born comedian gets some welcome playtime in Jim Pasternak's patchwork tribute, but not nearly enough.
    • Metascore: tbd
    • Nicolas Rapold 40
    Convention
    The film's frustrating treatment is actually more like the local reporter who is shown struggling to stay in the loop.
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    • Metascore: 63
    • Nicolas Rapold 40
    Summer Wars
    It's hard to appreciate things like the character detail amid the insufferably squealy voicing and arbitrary suspense.
    • Metascore: 36
    • Nicolas Rapold 40
    Ex Drummer
    The flashy adaptation of the book by aging Belgian provocateur Herman Brusselmans is as systematically offensive and boisterously vulgar as its degenerate punk protagonists.
    • Metascore: 58
    • Nicolas Rapold 40
    Life in a Day
    The resulting object is less about the world than about itself, and feels like a hey-that's-neat 90-minute troll through the video-sharing website (which co-presents the project).
    • Metascore: 61
    • Nicolas Rapold 30
    Cool It
    The nitty-gritty science of global warming is tough enough to evaluate without the sort of hard-sell Ondi Timoner pushes on behalf of her subject, Bjørn Lomborg.

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