ROTTEN TOMATOES: Nick Schager

LISTING OF ALL REVIEWS & ARTICLES

A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE

BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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4/4	There Will Be Blood
A-	Martin
3.5/4	The Band's Visit
B+	Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
3/4	Stephen King's The Mist
B	Things We Lost in the Fire
2.5/4	The Singing Revolution
B-	Hairspray
C+	Next
2/4	This Christmas
C	The Brave One
1.5/4	Midnight Eagle
C-	The Kite Runner
1/4	The Savages
D	I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry
.5/4	Be My Oswald
0/4	Prom Night

BEST REVIEWED
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4/4	There Will Be Blood
4/4	Days of Heaven
A	Killer of Sheep
4/4	Aguirre, the Wrath of God
A	On Dangerous Ground
A	Bad Lieutenant
4/4	Stalker
A	Neil Young - Heart of Gold
4/4	Army of Shadows
A	Land of Silence and Darkness
	more...

WORST REVIEWED
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0/4	Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed
0/4	Prom Night
0/4	They're Just My Friends
F	The Village
F	House of the Dead
F	Battle Royale II
D-	Troll 2
D-	My Boss's Daughter
.5/4	88 Minutes
.5/4	Valse Sentimentale
	more...

This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 73% of the time.

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1.5/4	"*C.S. Lewis meets Teen Beat." -- Slant Magazine* Posted May 15, 2008	The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008)	70%
A-	"That rare debut in which self-conscious formal daring proves exhilarating rather than excruciating." -- Lessons of Darkness Posted May 15, 2008	Reprise (2008)	95%
1.5/4	"Far less concerned with character development than with bludgeoning clues to the drama's true nature." -- Slant Magazine Posted May 11, 2008	Yella (2008)	82%
2/4	"Comparable to dousing one's eyeballs in a sugary hyper-digitized Skittles soup." -- Slant Magazine Posted May 8, 2008	Speed Racer (2008)	35%
	"*Director Bruce McDonald splits his screen eight ways to Sunday in The Tracey Fragments, a splintered form ostensibly intended to match the psyche of his protagonist." -- Slant Magazine* Posted May 8, 2008	The Tracey Fragments (2008)	38%
1.5/4	"*Daddies, don't let your daughters grow up to be babysitters, because according to The Babysitters, it's a gateway to whoredom." -- Slant Magazine* Posted May 7, 2008	The Babysitters (2008)	28%
	"*As unsophisticated as ... Brian DePalma's Redacted, although at least Broomfield forgoes spurious aesthetic shenanigans." -- Cinematical* Posted May 6, 2008	Battle for Haditha (2008)	57%
2/4	"*For all its sensitivity, thoughtful sobriety, and sound performances, though, Boy A* finally permits itself an excessive number of contrived and/or clich�d gestures.*" -- Slant Magazine* Posted May 5, 2008	Boy A (2008)	n/a
2.5/4	"The film is at its best when reveling in Downey's gift for letting bon mots dryly roll off his tongue, as well as his effortless blend of hedonistic insouciance and resolute intensity." -- Slant Magazine Posted Apr 30, 2008	Iron Man (2008)	93%
2/4	"Mechanical through and through." -- Slant Magazine Posted Apr 29, 2008	Before the Rains (2008)	38%
2.5/4	"It's Josh Peck, though, whose performance (as the "most popular of the unpopular") holds the film together amidst all its audio-video mannerisms and increasingly sappy developments." -- Slant Magazine Posted Apr 28, 2008	The Wackness (2008)	70%
2.5/4	"*Until it dissolves into routine sentimentality, Son of Rambow* proves a welcome corrective to the legion of post-Rushmore indies defined by their precious quirkiness and pathos.*" -- Slant Magazine* Posted Apr 28, 2008	Son of Rambow (2008)	77%
B-	"A lackadaisical focus eventually proves debilitating." -- Lessons of Darkness Posted Apr 26, 2008	Baghead (2008)	100%
3/4	"*David Mamet may not be the visual stylist that Jean-Pierre Melville was, but in most other respects, his Redbelt* is faithfully cast in the tradition of the great French auteur's Le Samoura�.*" -- Slant Magazine* Posted Apr 25, 2008	Redbelt (2008)	72%
1/4	"*Trading in shabby trickery, Deception* proves painfully incapable of building a better suspense-movie mousetrap.*" -- Slant Magazine* Posted Apr 24, 2008	Deception (2008)	12%
1.5/4	"An amplification of scale and subject matter that isn't, alas, accompanied by an upgrade in humor." -- Slant Magazine Posted Apr 24, 2008	Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008)	56%
3/4	"Chang gracefully juxtaposes the country and the metropolitan to express the knotted-up mixture of anguish, anger, hope, and trepidation of those in the dammed river's wake." -- Slant Magazine Posted Apr 23, 2008	Up The Yangtze (2008)	89%
B-	"A semiotics-tinged investigation into the nature of images themselves: how the contents, arrangement, and manipulation of the frame all affect interpretation and help define meaning." -- Lessons of Darkness Posted Apr 21, 2008	Standard Operating Procedure (2008)	79%
1.5/4	"*That the film also features SNL's Amy Poehler makes the proceedings' crushing mediocrity that much more frustrating." -- Slant Magazine* Posted Apr 20, 2008	Baby Mama (2008)	60%
C	"A 1920s football saga that blends rusty screwball comedy and perfunctory romance under a period piece veneer." -- Lessons of Darkness Posted Apr 16, 2008	Leatherheads (2008)	53%
C	"Ayers' second straight overwrought and unfulfilling tale concerning a loco white boy knee-deep in the City of Angels' criminal scene." -- Lessons of Darkness Posted Apr 16, 2008	Street Kings (2008)	33%
1.5/4	"*Suspense is something foreign to Anamorph." -- Slant Magazine* Posted Apr 16, 2008	Anamorph (2008)	27%
0/4	"For a film about American freedom of expression and the necessity for open dialogue, it's hard to imagine Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed being more one-sided, narrow-minded, and intellectually dishonest." -- Slant Magazine Posted Apr 16, 2008	Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed (2008)	9%
2.5/4	"Segel's script frequently enlivens pedestrian scenarios with sharp verbal back-and-forths and sudden cutaways to bizarre gags." -- Slant Magazine Posted Apr 13, 2008	Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)	84%
2/4	"Forbidden Kingdom serves up convoluted mythology with mild indifference." -- Slant Magazine Posted Apr 13, 2008	The Forbidden Kingdom (2008)	62%
0/4	"So soul-crushingly vapid it makes one hate high school all over again." -- Slant Magazine Posted Apr 11, 2008	Prom Night (2008)	9%
1/4	"Bra Boys is a carefully manicured PR video for the infamous Bra Boys surfer community." -- Slant Magazine Posted Apr 10, 2008	Bra Boys (2008)	77%
2.5/4	"Young@Heart's worst enemy is its director, Stephen Walker, whose incessant pushing and prodding strives to manipulate in ways both needless and trite." -- Slant Magazine Posted Apr 8, 2008	Young@Heart (2008)	87%
1/4	"Smart People is a borderline-excruciating exercise in trying to replicate the eccentric charm of Little Miss Sunshine." -- Slant Magazine Posted Apr 6, 2008	Smart People (2008)	49%
1.5/4	"Aside from depicting American academia as a cutthroat environment that can inspire deadly resentment, there's not much going on." -- Slant Magazine Posted Apr 6, 2008	Dark Matter (2008)	34%
2/4	"The film's depiction of deteriorating-under-pressure group dynamics comes to an abrupt end just as it gets going" -- Slant Magazine Posted Apr 5, 2008	The Ruins (2008)	42%
	"*Like My Blueberry Nights, [Jones' Elizabeth] is a looker with depressingly little going on beneath her striking facade." -- Cinematical* Posted Apr 4, 2008	My Blueberry Nights (2008)	49%
2.5/4	"Expresses how globalization has yet to completely change the fact that the world remains an enormous, imposing, largely foreign place." -- Slant Magazine Posted Apr 4, 2008	We Went to Wonderland (2008)	n/a
1.5/4	"*The only wonder eventually elicited by Nim's Island* is of a mystified variety.*" -- Slant Magazine* Posted Apr 4, 2008	Nim's Island (2008)	48%
	"A collector's edition that, on the basis of its skimpy extras, gives 2007's best film the shaft." -- Slant Magazine Posted Apr 2, 2008	There Will Be Blood (2007)	91%
.5/4	"For sheer silliness, nothing in 88 Minutes tops the fact that Witt's English ex-con husband boasts the ridiculously fanciful name Guy LaForge, presumably because "Fakey McMake-Believe" was already taken." -- Slant Magazine Posted Apr 1, 2008	88 Minutes (2008)	6%
2/4	"*It's nice to see The Facts of Life's Mindy Cohen working again, but crawling along in clunky, directionless fashion, Waters's pseudo-rom-com ultimately dies a slow death." -- Slant Magazine* Posted Apr 1, 2008	Sex and Death 101 (2008)	26%
1.5/4	"The Unknown Woman begins the same way director Giuseppe Tornatore's last film, Malena, operated throughout: by ogling a fine female form." -- Slant Magazine Posted Mar 31, 2008	The Unknown Woman (2008)	67%
3/4	"Tuya's Marriage can feel a tad overwritten, but in terms of its cultural and emotional portraits, the film's neo-realist authenticity is nonetheless striking." -- Slant Magazine Posted Mar 31, 2008	Tuya's Marriage (2008)	82%
2/4	"21 is a mini-Ocean's Eleven about, and for, people who are the age of its title." -- Slant Magazine Posted Mar 27, 2008	21 (2008)	31%
2/4	"Quaint and slight." -- Slant Magazine Posted Mar 25, 2008	Hats Off (2008)	38%
2.5/4	"There's a secret at the heart of XXY, but the real mystery is why writer-director Luc�a Puenzo insists on unnecessary symbolic gestures for a story otherwise told with delicacy, restraint, and maturity." -- Slant Magazine Posted Mar 25, 2008	XXY (2008)	71%
2/4	"Largely avoids sharply delineated portraits, with its focus on the scene at the expense of individuals, ultimately resulting in a documentary that doesn't rise above the functional." -- Slant Magazine Posted Mar 25, 2008	Cool School: How L.A. Learned to Love Modern Art (2008)	93%
.5/4	"*Director Voulgaris puts considerable effort into making Valse Sentimentale* as aesthetically hideous as possible.*" -- Slant Magazine* Posted Mar 24, 2008	Valse Sentimentale (2007)	n/a
1.5/4	"A Korean ghost story that alternates between being confusing and dim." -- Slant Magazine Posted Mar 24, 2008	Epitaph (2007)	n/a
2/4	"It may not be as insensitive as Blood Diamond's inane examination of the diamond industry and its accompanying slave trade, but Flawless's utilization of the issue as a mere diversionary plot point is nonetheless plenty distasteful." -- Slant Magazine Posted Mar 23, 2008	Flawless (2007)	62%
1/4	"*At one point, Chapman confesses that he doesn't enjoy the movies because they're "so goddamn phony," and with regard to the superficial, ugly-as-dirt Chapter 27, he's right on the money." -- Slant Magazine* Posted Mar 23, 2008	Chapter 27 (2008)	21%
1.5/4	"Is the golden age of Judd Apatow already waning?" -- Slant Magazine Posted Mar 20, 2008	Drillbit Taylor (2008)	26%
1/4	"Remaking Rocky Balboa as a comedy isn't a half-bad idea; remaking it as a comedy starring Adam Carolla, the dreadfully unfunny former host of Loveline and The Man Show, most certainly is a terrible one." -- Slant Magazine Posted Mar 20, 2008	The Hammer (2008)	74%
1/4	"Megane is the type of cutesy-quaint foreign import that's just about insufferable." -- Slant Magazine Posted Mar 17, 2008	Megane (2008)	n/a

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