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Amy Nicholson

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Amy Nicholson is the film critic of the Los Angeles Times and the host of the podcast "Unspooled." She is a current on-air voice at LAist and KCRW, and a member of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and the National Society of Film Critics. Formerly, she was the chief film critic for M온라인카지노추천 News and LA Weekly. Her other credits include the New York Times, the Washington Post, Variety, Rolling Stone and the Guardian, plus the podcast miniseries "Zoom," "The Canon," "Quentin Tarantino Presents," "Halloween Unmasked," and "Skillset." She has served on the juries for Sundance and SXSW, as well as the FIPRESCI juries for the Moscow International Film Festival, Cairo International Film Festival and Eurasia International Film Festival, among others. Amy holds a double B.A. in Film Studies and Anthropology from the University of Oklahoma as well as a Masters in Professional Writing from USC.

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Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025) 81% “There are almost no conversations, only premonitions and plans delivered in bullet-points like a group research project. No one steps on anyone else’s dramatic pauses. They may as well be reciting how to build an IKEA Billy bookcase.” – Los Angeles Times May 15, 2025 Full Review The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie (2024) 86% “Has a pretty good imitation of Porky Pig and Daffy Duck... But the movie itself doesn't have that anarchic energy. ” – FilmWeek (LAist) May 13, 2025 Full Review The Visitor (2024) 94% “It's as transgressive as can be, past the point of "I get it"... Awkward, snort-out-loud funny.” – FilmWeek (LAist) May 13, 2025 Full Review Borderline (2025) 55% “[Jimmy Warden] can come up with a hook, but the movie itself is pretty underwhelming. ” – FilmWeek (LAist) May 13, 2025 Full Review Magic Farm (2025) 51% “The latest bit of mischief by filmmaker Amalia Ulman, it’s about how making the world smaller hasn’t widened our curiosity as much as shrunk it into snarky bites — in short, it’s about going everywhere and seeing nothing. ” – Los Angeles Times May 9, 2025 Full Review Thunderbolts* (2025) 88% “Really, the whole movie feels like an asterisk. Don’t expect too much of me, it says.” – Los Angeles Times May 1, 2025 Full Review The Surfer (2024) 86% “It’s a film in which the mythic crashes into the ridiculous, the intersection where its star Nicolas Cage has also staked his career.” – Los Angeles Times May 1, 2025 Full Review The Accountant 2 (2025) 76% ““The Accountant 2” subtracts everything that worked about the 2016 original” – Los Angeles Times Apr 25, 2025 Full Review The Legend of Ochi (2025) 78% “I can imagine you being 7-years-old and this being your favorite movie... It does the job well in bringing a little magic to kids.” – FilmWeek (LAist) Apr 18, 2025 Full Review The Wedding Banquet (2025) 88% “The cast is strong enough to sell us on the movie’s idea of love, even when it bends conventionality into a balloon animal. But its conception of mega-wealth is truly phony. ” – Los Angeles Times Apr 17, 2025 Full Review Sinners (2025) 97% “What a blood rush to exit Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners” aware that you’ve seen not merely a great movie but an eternal movie, one that will transcend today’s box office and tomorrow’s awards to live on as a forever favorite. ” – Los Angeles Times Apr 17, 2025 Full Review Drop (2025) 84% “Clever in an Alfred Hitchcock-meets-ChatGPT kind of way. The plot is silly and the climax is at once too fast, too slow and too ludicrous. ” – Los Angeles Times Apr 11, 2025 Full Review Warfare (2025) 93% ““Warfare” wants to live in the dictionary shoehorned between war cry and war hawk. This short and gripping thriller nails its Oxford English definition — “the activity of fighting a war” — while stripping away the clichés” – Los Angeles Times Apr 10, 2025 Full Review Freaky Tales (2024) 74% “Most of the places and some of the people are real. But the star is the movie’s hyperactive, even overwhelmingly contradictory nostalgia. ” – Los Angeles Times Apr 4, 2025 Full Review A Minecraft Movie (2025) 47% “Hess’ take on Minecraft is essentially a meathead version of “The Wizard of Oz.” Four ragtag Idaho acquaintances blunder into the Overworld and beg Jack Black’s wizard-bearded blowhard for help returning home. Yes, Toto, there’s a cubist dog, too” – Los Angeles Times Apr 2, 2025 Full Review A Working Man (2025) 49% “Ayer knows what his audience wants and he’s willing to give it to them. He’s a working man, too, but at least his product is custom-crafted.” – Los Angeles Times Mar 27, 2025 Full Review The Ballad of Wallis Island (2025) 98% “It’s something almost as rare as a revelation: a crowdpleaser I’d recommend to everyone. And I have, from the grocery store clerks in Park City to my aunt to my metalhead pal — and now I’m tipping you off, too.” – Los Angeles Times Mar 27, 2025 Full Review Magazine Dreams (2023) 80% “Jonathan Majors plays a volatile bodybuilder named Killian Maddox, presumably because the writer and director Elijah Bynum thought calling the character Murderguy Sulkface was too on the nose. ” – Los Angeles Times Mar 21, 2025 Full Review Disney's Snow White (2025) 39% “A fascinating case study in today’s impossible contradictions — a magic mirror reflecting the tensions of the current times.” – Los Angeles Times Mar 19, 2025 Full Review Black Bag (2025) 96% “Spy games are merely a bit of lingerie tarting up a story about trust. Call it “sex, lies & videotape & guns” — and a sign that Soderbergh doesn’t have faith in today’s audiences to be interested in that kind of thing unless someone might get shot” – Los Angeles Times Mar 14, 2025 Full Review Novocaine (2025) 81% ““Novocaine” makes a convincing argument that its lead, Jack Quaid, can do it all: woo the girl, shoot the goon and tickle the audience. The movie itself has a harder time, screwing its three genres together so awkwardly that it tends to limp. ” – Los Angeles Times Mar 14, 2025 Full Review The Actor (2025) 79% “Johnson has bent the novel inside out and turned it into, of all things, a romance.” – Los Angeles Times Mar 12, 2025 Full Review Mickey 17 (2025) 77% “Of course, Bong Joon Ho is an environmentalist. He recycles his own ideas.” – Los Angeles Times Mar 7, 2025 Full Review The Accidental Getaway Driver (2023) 83% “Lee’s too subtle to say it out loud, but there’s a hushed irony in that Long attempted to rebuild a life halfway around the world only to wind up in the same place: captive at gunpoint.” – Los Angeles Times Mar 2, 2025 Full Review Riff Raff (2024) 57% “Like a pool shark, Montiel reveals his intentions only toward the end. The gamble doesn’t pay off as well as it could, but at least “Riff Raff” gets smarter as it goes on.” – Los Angeles Times Mar 1, 2025 Full Review
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