ROTTEN TOMATOES: Richard Nilsen

LISTING OF ALL REVIEWS & ARTICLES

A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE

BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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5/5	Nowhere in Africa
4.5/5	A Very Long Engagement
4/5	In Praise of Love
3.5/5	The Girl from Paris
3/5	The Last Kiss
2.5/5	The Chorus
2/5	The Good Thief
1.5/4	Ask the Dust
1.5/5	Man With The Screaming Brain
1/5	Mindhunters

BEST REVIEWED
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5/5	The Devil Came On Horseback
5/5	Away From Her
5/5	The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
5/5	Saraband
5/5	Dogville
5/5	Nowhere in Africa
4.5/5	2 Days In Paris
4.5/5	Ten Canoes
4.5/5	The Other Conquest
4.5/5	Matando Cabos
	more...

WORST REVIEWED
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1/5	Old Joy
1/5	Church Ball
1/5	Mindhunters
	more...

This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 75% of the time.

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3.5/5	"Bit by fragmented bit, it all adds up to a one-note portrait of its protagonist. Granted, that one note is a powerful one." Posted May 8, 2008	Fugitive Pieces (2008)	59%
3.5/5	"Priceless is a Hollywood remake waiting to happen. It's almost guaranteed." Posted Apr 24, 2008	Priceless (2008)	85%
3.5/5	"It's long for a documentary, almost two hours, but it has a big story to tell." Posted Mar 6, 2008	The Rape of Europa (2007)	78%
4/5	"Imaginary Witness is powerful and complex, and few will manage to make it through to the end without gasping, weeping or covering their eyes." Posted Feb 7, 2008	Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust (2007)	86%
	"May well be the best movie of the year." Posted Dec 26, 2007	The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)	94%
4/5	"Although the story may sound as dismal as Buffalo's weather, it's surprisingly funny. Not gag funny, but observation funny -- the absurdities of real life, seen and presented." Posted Dec 20, 2007	The Savages (2007)	90%
4/5	"Documentarian Amir Bar-Lev began making a film about whether Modern art is a scam and whether a 4-year-old painter from Binghampton, N.Y., might not be as good as Picasso. But Bar-Lev ended making a film instead about whether the 4-year-old is a scam." Posted Nov 1, 2007	My Kid Could Paint That (2007)	93%
3/5	"It ends like a TV show, and everyone has learned a neat little lesson. Phooey." Posted Oct 25, 2007	Bella (2007)	45%
3/5	"Canvas is worth seeing for the acting, but the disease-of-the-week conventions and hackneyed visuals pretty well knock the wind out of its sails." Posted Oct 18, 2007	Canvas (2007)	75%
3.5/5	"It certainly is fascinating." Posted Sep 27, 2007	In the Shadow of the Moon (2007)	94%
1.5/5	"David and Layla is proof, if proof be needed, that good intentions just aren't enough." Posted Sep 20, 2007	David & Layla (2007)	50%
2/5	"Pretty scenery. Pretty people. Pretty story. Pretty bad." Posted Sep 20, 2007	Sea of Dreams (2005)	33%
5/5	"The Devil Came on Horseback is a documentary about the genocide in that part of Africa, and the film's strength is that it shows us the horror, rather than tells us about it. It's painful to watch." Posted Sep 14, 2007	The Devil Came On Horseback (2007)	98%
4/5	"*If you have any ear for non-Western music, Gypsy Caravan* is a must.*" Posted Sep 6, 2007*	Gypsy Caravan (2006)	85%
4.5/5	"The last time I laughed so hard at a movie, it was Nigel Tufnel telling us his amplifier went to 11." Posted Sep 6, 2007	2 Days In Paris (2007)	87%
3/5	"It's a richly seen and felt movie, but not one with a feel-good message." Posted Aug 9, 2007	Goya's Ghosts (2007)	28%
3.5/5	"It feels a bit tired, a bit formulaic, a bit like too much studio input and script doctoring." Posted Aug 9, 2007	Stardust (2007)	76%
4.5/5	"*Gulpilil is the canny, subtle and funny narrator of 10 Canoes, a film of unutterable beauty, hypnotic fascination and universal humanity." Posted Aug 2, 2007*	Ten Canoes (2007)	98%
2.5/5	"Other movies may explore the depths of outer space. This movie explores the shallows." Posted Jul 26, 2007	Sunshine (2007)	75%
4/5	"*Don Cheadle has elevated yet another film: Talk to Me* is better than it intends to be. But thank Ejiofor as well.*" Posted Jul 26, 2007*	Talk to Me (2007)	81%
2/5	"The film never rises above the spiritual or intellectual level of a TV news anchor. It is a dispiriting film to watch, if you have any real interest in the subject." Posted Jul 19, 2007	10 Questions for the Dalai Lama (2007)	77%
3/5	"Persuasive and engaging, if one-sided. It could be argued there is only one side to argue." Posted Jul 19, 2007	I Have Never Forgotten You (2007)	81%
2.5/5	"You could sit through the film two or three times to nail down the details of the story, but the film isn't interesting enough to warrant a second look." Posted Jul 13, 2007	Paprika (2007)	82%
4/5	"Steel City is gritty, blue-collar and surprisingly dry-eyed. If it hadn't been a movie, it could have been a song off Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska album." Posted Jun 28, 2007	Steel City (2006)	86%
3/5	"The film never really coheres, and although some scenes are amazing, the total is slow, ponderous and sometimes silly." Posted Jun 28, 2007	Golden Door (2007)	71%
2.5/5	"A collection of Lifetime-channel clich�s arranged with the metallic precision of a machine." Posted Jun 28, 2007	Evening (2007)	27%
4/5	"*Don't bother voting. Just give the Oscar to Marion Cotillard now. As the chanteuse Edith Piaf in La Vie en Rose, her acting is the most astonishing I've seen in years." Posted Jun 21, 2007*	La Vie En Rose (2007)	74%
2.5/5	"The real problem is that September Dawn isn't a very good movie. It moves too much like a public-school history pageant and gives us mono-dimensional characters who speak dialogue that fairly reeks of printer's ink." Posted Jun 21, 2007	September Dawn (2007)	13%
3.5/5	"The best segments are as good as film gets; the losers can make you wince. On the whole, the good outweigh the bad and make the film feel like a minivacation in the City of Light." Posted Jun 7, 2007	Paris, Je T'aime (2007)	84%
4.5/5	"[Director] Carrasco uses shadows and mirrors to create effects he has no actual budget for. The lack of money shows on-screen but is cleverly hidden by the director's genius for making us care about his story so much that we forgive all else." Posted Jun 2, 2007	The Other Conquest (2007)	83%
5/5	"In Away From Her, four of the best actors in the world turn material worthy of their talents into the best movie of the year so far. The result is moving the way the best-written literature can be, telling us something about ourselves." Posted May 10, 2007	Away From Her (2007)	95%
3.5/5	"It does build up considerable suspense and tension; Renfroe has learned well from Hitchcock." Posted May 5, 2007	Civic Duty (2007)	56%
3.5/5	"By paying him attention and making this portrait, [director Hattendorf] makes us see Jimmy Mirikitani as a three-dimensional person and not a stereotype of homelessness. You leave the film glad to have met him." Posted Apr 27, 2007	The Cats of Mirikitani (2006)	96%
3.5/5	"Perhaps Ten 'til Noon is not exactly Citizen Kane, and perhaps all of the puzzle pieces never add up to anything but an engaging hour in the theater, but watching all the bits come together keeps you awake for the length of the film." Posted Apr 21, 2007	Ten 'til Noon (2005)	70%
4/5	"When it all wraps up as neatly as the treacliest Hollywood film, we don't feel cheated, but rather enjoy the satisfaction of a story resolved, and we're happy for each of the people we have spent our hour with." Posted Mar 31, 2007	Avenue Montaigne (2007)	73%
3.5/5	"Whether you find the film funny, inspiring or exasperating will depend on how deeply you buy the setup. In these days of Postmodern times, nothing it seems is quite what it seems." Posted Mar 16, 2007	Chasing October (2007)	n/a
4/5	"I Think I Love My Wife is a surprisingly grown-up film. With only a minimum of gross-out humor - which may disappoint his fans - it gives us an adult take on relationships and a take the younger film audience may not be willing to hear." Posted Mar 15, 2007	I Think I Love My Wife (2007)	19%
4/5	"James Longley's devastating documentary Iraq in Fragments has neither narration nor obvious political ax to grind, but it manages to tell us something about Iraq that we aren't getting or can't get from standard news coverage." Posted Feb 22, 2007	Iraq in Fragments (2006)	92%
2/5	"The film has leaden dialogue and action without drama: It isn't much more intellectually developed than a grade-school historical pageant." Posted Feb 1, 2007	The Work and the Glory: A House Divided (2006)	80%
3.5/5	"*... Seraphim Falls* keeps you in suspense with what will happen next: a good, old-fashioned storytelling virtue.*" Posted Jan 26, 2007*	Seraphim Falls (2007)	54%
3/5	"The climax of the film -- quite literally -- is so silly and preposterous that we're likely to leave the theater either laughing at it or grumbling about how such a good idea for a movie could have been so diluted: not perfume, but cheap cologne." Posted Jan 4, 2007	Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006)	56%
2.5/5	"All this comes from a novel by Somerset Maugham, although the movie leaves out most of the complexities of the book to focus on the single-minded venom of the marriage." Posted Dec 28, 2006	The Painted Veil (2006)	75%
2/5	"The information in the film is frightening, to say the least, but as a documentary, the film has serious flaws." Posted Dec 7, 2006	Ever Again (2005)	50%
1/5	"It plays for a scant 73 minutes, but if feels as long as a Wagner opera." Posted Nov 30, 2006	Old Joy (2006)	85%
4/5	"As a biopic, it is as meretricious as most, but as a myth about love and loss, about otherness and identity, about compassion and revulsion, about fetishism and sex, about art and life, it will likely stay with you for days." Posted Nov 21, 2006	Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006)	30%
3/5	"It's a pointless movie, except for Harris." Posted Nov 10, 2006	Copying Beethoven (2006)	26%
4/5	"Like an O'Neill play, its virtues are not in well-constructed ideas but in the emotional catharses it wrings out of its audience." Posted Oct 26, 2006	A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints (2006)	75%
3.5/5	"It sounds like a slight plot, and it is, but it is rich in detail that makes up for the simplicity of the story." Posted Oct 19, 2006	Riding Alone For Thousands of Miles (2006)	79%
2.5/5	"The same story in print would move more fleetly and makes its points more adroitly." Posted Sep 14, 2006	This Film is Not Yet Rated (2006)	84%
4/5	"It's interested in how real people, not movie characters, might act in the situation. It is about all the gray areas, all the complexities, all the layers of meaning." Posted Sep 7, 2006	Half Nelson (2006)	91%

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