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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A-	Martin
3.5/4	Be Kind Rewind
B+	Into Great Silence
3/4	Blindsight
B	The Simpsons Movie
2.5/4	Chop Shop
B-	Knightriders
C+	La Vie En Rose
2/4	27 Dresses
C	City of Men
1.5/4	National Treasure 2 : Book of Secrets
C-	Awake
1/4	Untraceable
D	Vantage Point
.5/4	One Missed Call
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	Insidious
0/4	Postal
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
	more...

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

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C	"[Carter's] reasonably firm grasp of thriller mechanics can't enliven a tale that amounts to simply a mundane, overlong one of the show's stand-alone, mythology-free episodes." -- Lessons of Darkness Posted Jul 24, 2008	The X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008)	32%
	"What ultimately reverberates is [the film's] potent central association between Petit's endeavor and the Twin Towers' erection." -- Cinematical Posted Jul 24, 2008	Man on Wire (2008)	100%
3/4	"There's something brilliantly stupid (or stupidly brilliant) about the sight of Ferrell and Reilly in vintage '80s t-shirts smacking each other around like steroidal kids, though it's the little things that make their complementary performances thrive." -- Slant Magazine Posted Jul 23, 2008	Step Brothers (2008)	52%
	"Conjuring up memories of happier experiences gone by is the prime means of enduring such across-the-board ineptitude." -- Cinematical Posted Jul 19, 2008	The Doorman (2008)	25%
3.5/4	"The Dark Knight resounds with a throbbing topical undercurrent, its superficially good-versus-evil setup slowly revealed to be a complex examination of the ways in which democracies can, and must, combat zealotry." -- Slant Magazine Posted Jul 17, 2008	The Dark Knight (2008)	95%
2/4	"A decidedly limited, functional aesthetic affair." -- Slant Magazine Posted Jul 15, 2008	A Man Named Pearl (2008)	67%
2.5/4	"To and Ka-fai's widescreen lensing is both elegant and sharp, its distorted angles and flaring white lights generating a sense of unease that complements Bun's instability and Chi-Wai's fractured self." -- Slant Magazine Posted Jul 15, 2008	Mad Detective (2008)	80%
2.5/4	"Transsiberian eventually reveals itself to be scatterbrained thematically." -- Slant Magazine Posted Jul 14, 2008	Transsiberian (2008)	85%
2/4	"Oliver's climactic twist merely nullifies any engagement with the characters' prior plights." -- Slant Magazine Posted Jul 14, 2008	Take (2008)	44%
2.5/4	"Felon flounders in convincingly resolving its protagonist's plight." -- Slant Magazine Posted Jul 14, 2008	Felon (2008)	59%
2.5/4	"While the mood is spot-on, the dubbed dialogue is so persistently lousy that it besmirches the proceedings' otherwise-entrancing beauty." -- Slant Magazine Posted Jul 11, 2008	The Exiles (1961)	88%
1.5/4	"*Special effects have come a long way since Jurassic Park, but you wouldn't know it from Journey to the Center of the Earth." -- Slant Magazine* Posted Jul 10, 2008	Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008)	60%
1.5/4	"Hartnett does windbag cockiness well, yet the overriding conception of his character and the Dot Com phenom in general is so straightforward and unrevealing that his effort goes for naught." -- Slant Magazine Posted Jul 7, 2008	August (2008)	36%
2/4	"Full Battle Rattle often seems content to merely work its way toward the concluding notion that, if our armed forces can't cut it in fake Iraq, they'll never be able to handle the real deal." -- Slant Magazine Posted Jul 7, 2008	Full Battle Rattle (2008)	78%
A-	"Thrilling and touching in equal measure, it's on the short list of great superhero films." -- Lessons of Darkness Posted Jul 1, 2008	Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)	87%
A-	"More impressive than its ecologically minded message is its modestly profound portrait of loneliness, obligation and the desire for reciprocated affection." -- Lessons of Darkness Posted Jul 1, 2008	WALL-E (2008)	96%
1.5/4	"Pure, unadulterated mediocrity." -- Slant Magazine Posted Jul 1, 2008	Diminished Capacity (2008)	28%
3/4	"*Hitchcock's "Wrong Man" scenario gets an invigorating French update in Tell No One, a long-winded but gripping thriller based on American author Harlan Coben's bestseller." -- Slant Magazine* Posted Jun 30, 2008	Tell No One (2008)	91%
2/4	"Sheds essential exposition in a mad, foolish dash to the finish line." -- Slant Magazine Posted Jun 28, 2008	Hancock (2008)	38%
2/4	"Its indictment ultimately feels like a secondary issue to Polanski's apparently incontrovertible guilt, which makes him--in this instance--still more victimizer than victim." -- Slant Magazine Posted Jun 28, 2008	Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired (2008)	85%
	"The Last Mistress' fervent energy is derived from its titular mistress' explode-at-any-second volatility." -- Cinematical Posted Jun 28, 2008	The Last Mistress (2008)	76%
1.5/4	"Hasn't got a joke worth laughing over." -- Slant Magazine Posted Jun 27, 2008	Full Grown Men (2008)	42%
2.5/4	"Speaking of bodies, Jolie's is here front and center, her svelte frame slinking across the screen with an alluring animalism magnified by the steamy twinkle in her eyes and sensual gestures as small as a wave of the hand or a shrug of the shoulder." -- Slant Magazine Posted Jun 24, 2008	Wanted (2008)	72%
	"*The contemplative rape film Irreversible* wished it were.*" -- Slant Magazine* Posted Jun 23, 2008	The Free Will (2006)	n/a
3/4	"Rigorous and wrenching." -- Slant Magazine Posted Jun 23, 2008	The Free Will (2006)	n/a
2/4	"*A clumsy mash of Leaving Las Vegas* and Hardcore.*" -- Slant Magazine* Posted Jun 22, 2008	Finding Amanda (2008)	38%
1.5/4	"Sweet November for the nursing-home set, Elsa and Fred is sentimental mush cooked up with extra syrup." -- Slant Magazine Posted Jun 22, 2008	Elsa & Fred (2008)	60%
2.5/4	"Locating both Claire's loneliness and Jay's anger as partial outgrowths of their detested profession handing out parking meter violation tickets, Expired coasts along on a distinctively odd wavelength." -- Slant Magazine Posted Jun 19, 2008	Expired (2008)	60%
C	"A succession of tepid gags tethered by a flimsy narrative." -- Lessons of Darkness Posted Jun 18, 2008	Get Smart (2008)	53%
3/4	"Peralta's presentation is so concise and efficient that it often overshadows the fact that some of his doc's contentions aren't particularly novel." -- Slant Magazine Posted Jun 15, 2008	Made in America (2008)	n/a
1.5/4	"*Shyamalan is far better at setup than payoff, and the Sixth Sense* director's latest once and for all cements that reputation.*" -- Slant Magazine* Posted Jun 12, 2008	The Happening (2008)	19%
	"A real-life romance to put all those rom-com fairy tales to shame." -- Cinematical Posted Jun 12, 2008	Chris & Don: A Love Story (2008)	96%
2/4	"No fondness for crummy old television can obscure the general faintheartedness of this saga." -- Slant Magazine Posted Jun 10, 2008	The Incredible Hulk (2008)	67%
2/4	"*A bleakly humorous romantic character study, Quid Pro Quo* is appealingly offbeat until its narrative takes a wayward detour into pat simplifications.*" -- Slant Magazine* Posted Jun 10, 2008	Quid Pro Quo (2008)	64%
2/4	"Swinging from solemn drama to farcical humor at a moment's notice, the proceedings rarely feel surefooted." -- Slant Magazine Posted Jun 8, 2008	Love Comes Lately (2008)	59%
3/4	"Offers an experience that is best summed up by a phrase seen carved in a McMurdo wood banister: "I sink into bliss."" -- Slant Magazine Posted Jun 8, 2008	Encounters at the End of the World (2008)	95%
	"Makes up for its lack of informational depth with stirring poignancy." -- Cinematical Posted Jun 7, 2008	On the Rumba River (2008)	83%
2.5/4	"Kung Fu Panda is generally content to simply coast along on a few Zen platitudes and regularly scheduled Po pratfalls." -- Slant Magazine Posted Jun 5, 2008	Kung Fu Panda (2008)	88%
C	"Another of the horror maestro's futile attempts to recapture the magic that made his seminal '70s giallos so bewitching." -- Lessons of Darkness Posted Jun 5, 2008	Mother of Tears (2008)	50%
	"More content to hang out with Ellison ... than systematically pick him apart and put him back together like a jigsaw puzzle." -- Cinematical Posted Jun 4, 2008	Dreams with Sharp Teeth (2008)	93%
2.5/4	"Zohan is, against all odds, Sandler's funniest effort in close to a decade. Not exactly a monumental feat given the junk he's recently made a mint foisting on the American public, but still." -- Slant Magazine Posted Jun 3, 2008	You Don't Mess with the Zohan (2008)	34%
2/4	"A low-key Big Fish minus the whimsical fantasy." -- Slant Magazine Posted Jun 1, 2008	When Did You Last See Your Father? (2008)	73%
1/4	"*Saying The Promotion's tone is all wrong would imply that it had a tone to begin with." -- Slant Magazine* Posted Jun 1, 2008	The Promotion (2008)	47%
2.5/4	"Bodrov whips up enough wild, unruly energy and, in his depiction of sex as a Mongolian female's most vital commodity, sociological scraps to help overshadow the somewhat cheesy dubiousness of his myth-making project." -- Slant Magazine Posted Jun 1, 2008	Mongol (2008)	88%
3/4	"A European tour fraught with shady venue owners, missed trains and in-fighting, and subsequent efforts to record their 13th studio album are misadventures that a less compassionate filmmaker might have wrung for cheap Spinal Tap-ish humor." -- Slant Magazine Posted May 30, 2008	Anvil! The Story of Anvil (2009)	n/a
	"*Julianne Moore is some kind of great in Savage Grace, but the film? Not so much." -- Cinematical* Posted May 28, 2008	Savage Grace (2008)	42%
2.5/4	"Gordon shoots his material's descent into grotesqueness (of both a physical and ethical sort) with jagged briskness that amplifies his scenario's mordant humor." -- Slant Magazine Posted May 26, 2008	Stuck (2008)	71%
2.5/4	"Stays doggedly true to its idiosyncratic off-kilter vibe." -- Slant Magazine Posted May 25, 2008	The Foot Fist Way (2008)	58%
3/4	"*As with last year's lean, mean B movie Vacancy, Bryan Bertino's The Strangers* is a white-knuckle thriller in which a couple going through relationship difficulties is terrorized by psychos.*" -- Slant Magazine* Posted May 23, 2008	The Strangers (2008)	41%
B+	"Addresses its complex topic with both humor and intelligence." -- Lessons of Darkness Posted May 23, 2008	Bigger, Stronger, Faster* (2008)	97%

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