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AMY NICHOLSON Movie Reviews

19 reviews, averaging 52.2% positive
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Mama

Movieline
01/18/13 Outstanding "...for my money, it's Chastain's best performance yet.... damned if 'Mama' doesn't transcend its nonsense.... an honest-to-god film instead of a quickie horror cash-in..."
2. 04/26/13 Very Good "Antonio Méndez Esparza's cast of unknowns is so fresh and raw that the drama could be mistaken for a documentary if the camera work weren't so controlled..."
3. 05/16/13 Good "...glossy... tailored to fans who don't care for canon but know enough to grin when McCoy pokes a Tribble."
4. 05/15/13 Good "A cheery combo of classic catchphrases and young Hollywood heat, like blonde babe Alice Eve as a weapons expert who can only examine torpedoes in her underwear."
5.

Disconnect

Los Angeles Times
04/12/13 Good "Andrew Stern smartly sees that our devices are just devices.... His attack sounds one-note, but it's the fallout that holds our interest..."
6.

Jack Reacher

Movieline
12/19/12 Good "...a bit unsteady as it wavers between action and laughs. But the flick is great entertainment... it's fast, fun, and smarter than it looks."
7. 01/18/13 Good (Not Great) "...a return to men who crack quips, fight with their fists, and swagger around without having to carry the weight of the world on their over-developed shoulders."
8.

10 Years

Movieline
09/14/12 Good (Not Great) "...too bad '10 Years' isn't, you know, funny. At least it's well-meaning and nostalgic... this flick is a reunion for anyone who's laughed at anything in the last ten years."
9.

Arbitrage

Movieline
09/13/12 Good (Not Great) "Compared to an episode of your average television procedural, 'Arbitrage' has double the runtime and half the suspense... Jarecki's fatalism works against the film."
10.

Kiss of the Damned

Los Angeles Times
05/03/13 Good (Not Great) "...as much a salute to Italian horror legend Mario Bava as it is an actual film.... the confident, female-driven sensuality of this movie anchors this handsome nonsense."
11.

Filly Brown

Los Angeles Times
04/19/13 Good (Not Great) "...heartfelt.... It's a familiar show-biz soap opera.... yet almost despite our will, the cast keeps us invested in Filly's furious resurrection."
12.

Java Heat

Los Angeles Times
05/17/13 Moderate "...the film's anthropological interest in Indonesia is the smartest thing in an otherwise familiar scramble of kidnapped babes, expensive jewelry and millions of bullets."
13.

Desperate Acts of Magic

Los Angeles Times
05/10/13 Moderate "There's novelty in a romantic comedy that uses card tricks as foreplay.... The trade-off is that the actors are better at making coins disappear than emoting..."
14.

Starbuck (2012)

Los Angeles Times
03/22/13 Moderate "Is David inspired to become a better man? Let's just say the movie is determined to end in cinema history's biggest group hug.... amiable art-house fluff..."
15.

Dorfman in Love

Los Angeles Times
03/22/13 Moderate "...old-fashioned.... Wendy Kout's semi-autobiographical sitcom-like script bops along being inoffensive to everyone besides the homeless living on L.A.'s skid row..."
16.

Black Rock

Los Angeles Times
05/17/13 Fair "Aselton clearly loses interest when the script shifts from drama to horror... her disregard for her male characters causes the film to spiral into dudette 'Deliverance.' "
17.

Generation Um...

Los Angeles Times
05/03/13 Weak "...despite Novakovic's furious efforts to inject life into Mann's disaffected hipster ennui, neither the film, nor the film within the film, hold our attention. Bummer, Keanu."
18.

Hunky Dory

Los Angeles Times
03/22/13 Weak "...a golden-hued, feel-good treacle... Laurence Coriat's shapeless script pads its overlong running time with standard teen trauma that saps the audience's energy..."
19.

How Sweet It Is (2013)

Los Angeles Times
05/10/13 Poor "...mindless.... Joe Piscopo isn't just too good for this film, he's too good to be giving it this much effort.... ludicrous..."
20.

Scary Movie V

Los Angeles Times
04/13/13 Poor "Director Malcolm D. Lee's strategy is to out-stupid the competition.... at least a chimpanzee gets the film's fitting last line: 'Apes need to take over this planet.' "

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