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Movie Reviews by Nick Schager - Page 28 of 115

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Review of For No Good Reason (2012)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for Village Voice (8,525) on 21 Apr 2014

It's a film that paints a potent portrait of an artist of righteous, controlled fury…

Review of The German Doctor (2013)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for Village Voice (8,525) on 21 Apr 2014

Puenzo dramatizes her material with an overcooked sense of import that generates scant suspense…

Review of The Machine (2013)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for Village Voice (8,525) on 21 Apr 2014

If the proceedings prove far too familiar, director Caradog W. James delivers a few striking images…

Review of Kid Cannabis (2014)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for Village Voice (8,525) on 15 Apr 2014

Kid Cannabis presents its material not as cautionary tale but as celebratory fantasy — which, like Nate's mom turning a blind eye to her…

Review of Oculus (2014)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for Village Voice (8,525) on 07 Apr 2014

Replete with superb performances led by a paranoid Sackhoff and unhinged Cochrane, it's the rare horror film to know how to tease malevolent…

Review of In the Blood (2014)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for Village Voice (8,525) on 03 Apr 2014

Carano’s badass-beauty charm notwithstanding, it’s a grim, formulaic saga in desperate need of some genuine B-movie fury and flair…

Review of The Raid 2 (2014)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 25 Mar 2014

The Raid 2 proves to be one of the most repugnant spectacles in recent memory, and one made all the more unpleasant by its epic pretensions…

Review of Hide Your Smiling Faces (2014)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 25 Mar 2014

At times a tad too oblique for its own good, Hide Your Smiling Faces nonetheless casts a potent spell, delivering a disquieting portrait of…

Review of Dark House (2014)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for The Dissolve (1,478) on 11 Mar 2014

Dark House practically drowns under the weight of mismatched horror tropes, including a preponderance of loud-noise jolt-scares and idiotic…

Review of Journey to the West (2014)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for Village Voice (8,525) on 04 Mar 2014

The camera swoops and whooshes about but never generates any compelling energy — Chow's film proves endlessly manic but devoid of much mirth…

Review of The Bag Man (2014)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for Village Voice (8,525) on 25 Feb 2014

The trouble is that Grovic's attempts to generate suspense by keeping character identities and motivations unknown leaves the proceedings feeling…

Review of The Standbys (2014)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for Village Voice (8,525) on 18 Feb 2014

Short and sweet, it's an empathetic and affecting tribute to the great — and vital — artists who all too rarely receive a center-stage encore…

Review of Someone Marry Barry (2014)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for The Dissolve (1,478) on 13 Feb 2014

The way the film hews to tiresome conventions is itself a buzzkill, but worse is its sheer lack of energy, as Pearlstein stages serious and/or…

Review of RoboCop (2014)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 11 Feb 2014

a dull do-over that ditches most of its source material's sharp social satire by reimagining its tale in more traditional superhero-style fashion…

Review of The Outsider (2015)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for Village Voice (8,525) on 11 Feb 2014

Fairbrass proves a hulking wannabe ass-kicker without much distinctive charisma, and his leaden performance is matched by sleepy, one-note…

Review of Back in the Day (2014)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for The Dissolve (1,478) on 16 Jan 2014

It’s a film that feels like it’s simply going through the motions—not to mention one whose ultimate critique of trying to relive the…

Review of The Legend of Hercules (1996)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 10 Jan 2014

A chintzy, poorly acted origin story of the legendary Greek hero that blatantly mimics its genre ancestors while drenching its action in corny…

Review of If You Build It (2013)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for The Dissolve (1,478) on 10 Jan 2014

Unfortunately, as with so many social-survey documentaries, the film’s macro view comes at the expense of any microcosmic depth…

Review of The Legend of Hercules (2014)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 10 Jan 2014

A chintzy, poorly acted origin story of the legendary Greek hero that blatantly mimics its genre ancestors while drenching its action in corny…

Review of 47 Ronin (1994)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 30 Dec 2013

Equally clumsy and lazy -- and thoroughly, unintentionally funny -- 47 Ronin combines samurai-sword clichés with Hollywood-style CG mayhem…

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Nick Schager has written reviews for:

Variety (12,700)
Village Voice (8,525)
Slant Magazine (8,298)
Time Out (7,510)
The A.V. Club (5,644)
Film Journal International (5,095)
Rolling Stone (4,035)
The Playlist (3,871)
Filmcritic.com (3,164)
L.A. Weekly (3,142)

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