Nick Schager
Select another critic »For 924 reviews, this critic has graded:
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32% higher than the average critic
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4% same as the average critic
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64% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 15.4 points lower than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Nick Schager's Scores
- Movies
- TV
Average review score: | 50 | |
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Highest review score: | Cielo | |
Lowest review score: | My Father Die |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 314 out of 924
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Mixed: 301 out of 924
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Negative: 309 out of 924
924
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- Nick Schager
Setting a new benchmark for diverse, agile, breathtaking animation, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is as striking as non-live-action films come.- The Daily Beast
- Posted May 31, 2023
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- Nick Schager
Rob Savage’s adaptation of Stephen King’s 1973 short story is as stereotypical as they come, so devoid of originality that the most pressing emotion it elicits is pity for its leads, Sophie Thatcher and Chris Messina, who deserve better than to be put through this paint-by-numbers ringer.- The Daily Beast
- Posted May 29, 2023
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- Nick Schager
There’s no way to get a total read on what Qualley’s protagonist is up to, which turns out to be the primary thrill of this snapshot of personal, professional, and class warfare.- The Daily Beast
- Posted May 26, 2023
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- Nick Schager
Though its real-life story ultimately proves a little too one-note, it makes up for its thinness with a powerhouse lead turn from Sydney Sweeney as a woman caught in a nerve-wracking mess of her own making.- The Daily Beast
- Posted May 26, 2023
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- Nick Schager
What [Waugh] delivers is precisely what fans are likely looking for, albeit in a package that’s more politically muddled than is necessary.- The Daily Beast
- Posted May 26, 2023
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- Nick Schager
A film about a police culture that doesn’t seem to take rape charges seriously—or, at the very least, doesn’t think that thoroughly examining accusations is worth the hassle when intimidation and humiliation will facilitate their jobs.- The Daily Beast
- Posted May 23, 2023
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- Nick Schager
Director Calmatic sanitizes every aspect of his source material until the entire thing looks, sounds and feels like a Disney sitcom. Thus, it’s no surprise when things get self-help maudlin.- The Daily Beast
- Posted May 18, 2023
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- Nick Schager
What it reveals is an exclusionary environment that views beauty, wealth, privilege, and conformity as the highest of ideals—and which seems, in some cases, to exacerbate the very problems these young women believe it will solve.- The Daily Beast
- Posted May 17, 2023
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- Nick Schager
There’s plenty of preposterousness to be found in this sequel, which barely revs to life when indulging in automotive mayhem and outright stalls every time its human characters open their mouths.- The Daily Beast
- Posted May 17, 2023
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- Nick Schager
A satire that’s neither sharp enough to make its industry skewering sting, nor sweet enough to compensate for its toothlessness.- The Daily Beast
- Posted May 12, 2023
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- Nick Schager
A B-movie with a C+ premise and D-minus execution, the last of which largely falls at the feet of director Robert Rodriguez.- The Daily Beast
- Posted May 10, 2023
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- Nick Schager
Helander’s latest tells its story with compact concision, even as it also indulges in great gooey gobs of over-the-top mayhem.- The Daily Beast
- Posted May 7, 2023
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- Nick Schager
[A] portrait of one woman’s heroism and the means by which it’s motivated by guilt, regret, fury, and despair—the last of which, ultimately, proves inescapable.- The Daily Beast
- Posted May 3, 2023
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- Nick Schager
A first-rate rebound from the relatively underwhelming Vol. 2, it’s a bursting-at-the-seams adventure that, minor missteps aside, reminds viewers why this ragtag crew remains one of the MCU’s highlights.- The Daily Beast
- Posted Apr 28, 2023
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- Nick Schager
Infused with bounding energy but little meaningful invention, it climbs to only modest heights, weighed down by its inability to add much to the iconic legend.- The Daily Beast
- Posted Apr 28, 2023
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- Nick Schager
Celebrates feminist independence and rage, even as it embraces the conventions of its many cinematic and pop culture influences.- The Daily Beast
- Posted Apr 24, 2023
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- Nick Schager
A sober military thriller that excoriates Joe Biden’s decision to pull out of Afghanistan in 2021 and, in the process, to strand the thousands of local interpreters who had risked their lives to aid the American cause.- The Daily Beast
- Posted Apr 21, 2023
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- Nick Schager
Capturing the pulse-pounding emotional whirlwind of its source material (and its characters), it’s a florid reimagining that’s at once bold, beautiful, and, at its peak, brilliant.- The Daily Beast
- Posted Apr 21, 2023
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- Nick Schager
Evil Dead Rises is confirmation that—like so many that have come before it—Raimi’s legendary horror saga has run out of steam, continuing onward only because its easy-to-market IP value remains relatively high.- The Daily Beast
- Posted Apr 20, 2023
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- Nick Schager
Featuring not a single convincing element or exchange, this fiasco plays like a wannabe-Knight and Day exercise in eliciting annoyed reactions.- The Daily Beast
- Posted Apr 20, 2023
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- Nick Schager
Rock ‘n’ roll portraits this vibrant, introspective, and nimble don’t come around very often.- The Daily Beast
- Posted Apr 14, 2023
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- Nick Schager
[Cage] is the prince of pretentious darkness, and the saving grace of this otherwise slapdash variation on the Bram Stoker legend.- The Daily Beast
- Posted Apr 13, 2023
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- Nick Schager
A true American original, and proof that, while the hype surrounding [Aster] may have been early, it wasn’t wrong.- The Daily Beast
- Posted Apr 10, 2023
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- Nick Schager
Fails to locate a humorous rhythm or coherently develop its collection of characters. It’s the skeleton of a promising idea rather than a full-fledged movie.- The Daily Beast
- Posted Apr 4, 2023
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- Nick Schager
A rousing underdog saga that—like Ben Affleck’s prior directorial efforts Gone Baby Gone, The Town, and Argo—has the type of snappy energy and charm that should earn it a long post-theatrical shelf life.- The Daily Beast
- Posted Apr 4, 2023
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- Nick Schager
Dismally lazy nonsense whose only redeeming element is that its credits roll a good 10 minutes before the conclusion of its stated runtime.- The Daily Beast
- Posted Mar 31, 2023
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- Nick Schager
Those with a craving for out-there mystery and dread, however, will get a heady buzz from its bizarro madness.- The Daily Beast
- Posted Mar 28, 2023
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- Nick Schager
Refusing to provide an accurate and trustworthy snapshot of what both these opposing factions are really about, the film comes across as a superficial exposé afraid of getting dirty.- The Daily Beast
- Posted Mar 23, 2023
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- Nick Schager
The film’s placid aesthetics help the directors strip away any artificial barriers between the audience and their subjects, thereby eliciting immense, compassionate engagement with Tori and Lokita’s plight.- The Daily Beast
- Posted Mar 23, 2023
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- Nick Schager
As a showcase for the inimitable Dafoe it has its minor freaky-deaky pleasures. Ultimately, though, it goes nowhere—literally and figuratively.- The Daily Beast
- Posted Mar 17, 2023
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