Nicolas Rapold
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29% higher than the average critic
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6% same as the average critic
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65% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 8.7 points lower than other critics.
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Nicolas Rapold's Scores
- Movies
- TV
Average review score: | 56 | |
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Highest review score: | Mustang | |
Lowest review score: | Neander-Jin: The Return of the Neanderthal Man |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 163 out of 477
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Mixed: 266 out of 477
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Negative: 48 out of 477
477
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- Nicolas Rapold
This is a refreshingly grounded, deceptively plain picture of crime-fighting as a grind of false leads, workplace fatigue and no closure.- The New York Times
- Posted May 18, 2023
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- Nicolas Rapold
There’s something grudgingly admirable about the voluble star essentially spending an entire film doing reactions. But it’s a disastrous move in a Hollywood satire that already needs to be more than a grab bag of jokes.- The New York Times
- Posted May 11, 2023
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- Nicolas Rapold
Its splashy, curiously filter-free adventures unfold in Italy and Germany during World War II, to sometimes awkward effect.- The New York Times
- Posted May 2, 2023
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- Nicolas Rapold
Reed’s initial overeager stylings fall back to reveal a mature reckoning with love, hurt, independence, and hard-won wisdom.- The New York Times
- Posted Apr 27, 2023
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- Nicolas Rapold
Baisho gets across the creeping despair that morbidity and the loss of community can create — a sensation that lets Plan 75 double as a consummate entry in pandemic-era cinema.- The New York Times
- Posted Apr 20, 2023
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- Nicolas Rapold
The film’s sometimes brusque transitions and decentered perspectives are just as transgressive as any of the graphic imagery.- The New York Times
- Posted Apr 13, 2023
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- Nicolas Rapold
Paik is undeniable, creating despite lean times (and slowing after a 1996 stroke).- The New York Times
- Posted Mar 23, 2023
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- Nicolas Rapold
It’s all a heady brew that leaves one wanting to know even more about Roberts, who is now running for mayor in Denver. The movie resists encapsulating him, or perhaps he escapes its director’s full understanding.- The New York Times
- Posted Mar 9, 2023
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- Nicolas Rapold
For a documentary largely about archives, it should be better organized, but its breathless profusion of information underscores the scale of the task at hand.- The New York Times
- Posted Mar 3, 2023
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- Nicolas Rapold
A House Made of Splinters is made with such aching sensitivity that it’s a marvel a camera was used and not some form of mind-meld.- The New York Times
- Posted Feb 22, 2023
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- Nicolas Rapold
The film’s biggest trick might be casting Moore, Stan and the positively glowing Middleton and still never quite catching fire.- The New York Times
- Posted Feb 16, 2023
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- Nicolas Rapold
The ticktock horror plotting muffles the romantic spark that brought Maja and Leah together in the first place — the thrill replaced by a lukewarm chill.- The New York Times
- Posted Feb 9, 2023
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- Nicolas Rapold
The message of manifesting your goals reigns supreme, which is great, but it’s worth mentioning that Watson’s willpower benefits from the privileges of financial security, family support and a curmudgeonly-turned-selfless coach.- The New York Times
- Posted Feb 2, 2023
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- Nicolas Rapold
Pathaan is in some ways a save-the-world superhero movie without suits, and while less self-serious, the hefty length can lag. More is not always better — though the gusto of Padukone speedskating to the rescue at one point goes a long way.- The New York Times
- Posted Feb 2, 2023
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- Nicolas Rapold
It’s all a reminder of the labor and risks that go into creating and preserving essential imagery of the past, even for the most notorious events in history.- The New York Times
- Posted Jan 26, 2023
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- The New York Times
- Posted Jan 12, 2023
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- Nicolas Rapold
It can’t fail to trigger shudders of recognition as well as feelings of release, but the filmmaking lacks a certain drama.- The New York Times
- Posted Dec 29, 2022
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- Nicolas Rapold
Bahrani’s film (which he narrates) beetles along without fully exploiting Davis’s ample entertainment value, which is counterbalanced by accounts of his dubious actions and sometimes unseemly opinions.- The New York Times
- Posted Dec 1, 2022
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- Nicolas Rapold
As edited, Moreh’s interviews prize policy analysis and haunting candor over gotcha moments or grandstanding.- The New York Times
- Posted Nov 23, 2022
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- Nicolas Rapold
It’s boosterish and jam-packed, like many pop-culture documentaries (not just ones produced by Disney about Disney).- The New York Times
- Posted Nov 17, 2022
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- Nicolas Rapold
The writer-director, Andrew Bujalski, zeros in on the delicate dances and negotiations between the people in these two-handers, which percolate with sly humor, decency, curiosity and sheer nerve.- The New York Times
- Posted Nov 17, 2022
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- Nicolas Rapold
The shrewdly observant film sticks with one Afghan general, Sami Sadat, to tell an emotional story that feels as significant as any analysis of troop numbers.- The New York Times
- Posted Nov 10, 2022
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- Nicolas Rapold
The actors’ chemistry feels brittle, and like many road movies it has trouble mining drama out of disparate episodes.- The New York Times
- Posted Nov 4, 2022
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- Nicolas Rapold
The film’s skimping on economic and social issues echoes one description of Biden’s own messaging by some pundits: low-key to the point of obscuring the full picture of his efforts.- The New York Times
- Posted Oct 20, 2022
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- Nicolas Rapold
Plan A never quite rises to the challenge posed by this remarkable chapter in history.- The New York Times
- Posted Oct 13, 2022
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- Nicolas Rapold
If only the story of Hinterland felt as engrossing and alive as its setting.- The New York Times
- Posted Oct 7, 2022
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- Nicolas Rapold
With his feature, Davenport stakes out his own vantage point on the world, one that leaves a viewer wishing to hear his thoughts elaborated even further.- The New York Times
- Posted Sep 29, 2022
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- Nicolas Rapold
A wistful beauty and a delicately imaginative sense of craft set Vesper apart from most post-apocalyptic stories.- The New York Times
- Posted Sep 29, 2022
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- Nicolas Rapold
Decency prevails in a somewhat ludicrous finale involving an army of children and a train containing a high-ranking officer. It’s an ending so tidy as to undercut the effort to broach a shameful side to the American war effort.- The New York Times
- Posted Sep 22, 2022
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- Nicolas Rapold
“Four Winters” offers an enduring warning amid today’s global struggle with authoritarian forces: As one speaker explains, her neighbors were already antisemitic before the war, but with power, they became vicious.- The New York Times
- Posted Sep 20, 2022
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