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Nick Davis

Tomatometer-approved critic
Biography:

Assistant Professor of English and Gender Studies at Northwestern University

Favorites:

The Piano, Morvern Callar, Safe, When Harry Met Sally..., Persona, Pinocchio ('40), Singin' in the Rain, The Scarlet Empress, Laura, Meshes of the Afternoon, Aliens, Crash, Harlan County U.S.A., The Thin Red Line, Citizen Kane, Velvet Goldmine, Dancer in the Dark

Location:

Chicago, IL

Official Website:

http://www.nicksflickpicks.com

Reviews

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Boy! What a Girl (1947) 80% B “Brief, giddy musical showcasing African-American comics, singers, and musicians to total, charming advantage.” – Nick's Flick Picks Feb 1, 2021 Full Review Girl (2018) 84% “Unfortunately, despite strenuous pretenses of compassion, Girl's escalating obsessions reprise long histories of cruel, transphobic storytelling.” – Film Comment Magazine Mar 21, 2019 Full Review Complices (2009) 80% B “Partners has its fingers confidently on the pulse of what is heedlessly passionate and what is utterly desultory about late adolescence and extremely nascent "adulthood."” – Nick's Flick Picks Mar 28, 2018 Full Review The Workshop (2017) 89% “The boldness of The Workshop inheres, paradoxically, in its reluctance to sensationalize at stylistic or narrative levels, at least up to a point.” – Film Comment Magazine Mar 8, 2018 Full Review Bar Bahar (2016) 98% “Refreshingly, Hamoud doesn't need to pit women against each other to explore these issues of gender and culture.” – Film Comment Magazine Jan 3, 2018 Full Review The Salesman (2016) 96% “Bruising but elegant, conceptually intricate within a street-realist style, The Salesman asks through its final shots: when we stare at each other, do we see each other, or only ourselves?” – Film Comment Magazine Jan 3, 2017 Full Review The City of Lost Children (1995) 80% B- “City of Lost Children is unmistakably of its era: filled with oddball artifacts, and itself quite pointedly an oddball artifact, seeking approval on those very terms.” – Nick's Flick Picks May 16, 2015 Full Review The Upside of Anger (2005) 74% B “Upside is better-than-average as a mid-budget suburban film dramedy but positively gangbusters if you imagine it as a two-hour television pilot.” – Nick's Flick Picks Aug 6, 2014 Full Review Within Our Gates (1920) 100% “Within Our Gates is full of surprises, following a multitude of characters and plotlines without settling into predictable allegiances.” – Nick's Flick Picks Feb 4, 2013 Full Review The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) 90% A- “The movie is not a wild river but a humid delta of stagnant frustration and stymied movement, so it's all the more impressive that it's such a gripping spectatorial experience.” – Nick's Flick Picks Feb 8, 2012 Full Review The Importance of Being Earnest (1952) 88% B+ “For an audience that takes pleasure in the all-too-rare art of faithful adaptations that vivify rather than embalming their sources [...] Asquith's conservative handling is just what the confirmed and secret Bunburyist ordered.” – Nick's Flick Picks Feb 8, 2012 Full Review The Laramie Project (2002) 92% B “The Laramie Project is not really about Matthew Shepard but about this question of identification with Matthew, and of identification with the larger community of Laramie that admitted, sustained, eliminated, grieved, and civilly avenged Matthew.” – Nick's Flick Picks Feb 5, 2012 Full Review The Actress (1953) 60% C- “Sadly, if she was guilty of trying too hard or of trying in the wrong way, Cukor appears totally and uncharacteristically checked out... The Actress exposes the kinds of fraying seams that Cukor was usually so careful to conceal even in tattier projects.” – Nick's Flick Picks Feb 1, 2012 Full Review Rumble Fish (1983) 77% B “Rumble Fish is like a unisex Sweet 16 gift for children whose favorite hangouts are the pool hall, the Cinmatheque Franaise, and the rings of Saturn.” – Nick's Flick Picks Jan 22, 2012 Full Review Tim (1979) C “Tim comes close to reproducing the plot of Doubt, in negative-space fashion. That is, for this go-round, we spend all our time with the uncomprehending kid (if he is uncomprehending?) and his teacher-nurturer-desirer.” – Nick's Flick Picks Jan 21, 2012 Full Review The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996) 68% C “The surprise and also the disappointment of The Long Kiss Goodnight is much simpler, and less politically inflected: it's badly made, or too close to badly made.” – Nick's Flick Picks Jan 21, 2012 Full Review The Fountainhead (1949) 79% B “The Fountainhead is by turns exciting, handsome, astoundingly awkward, fully committed, untowardly relentless, very strange, and a little creepy in its compulsive watchability.” – Nick's Flick Picks Jan 20, 2012 Full Review Gaslight (1940) 100% B “So much goes right in this film version, all without sparking a corresponding bump in my enthusiasm, that it's all the more obvious that I find some foundations of this text perennially problematic.” – Nick's Flick Picks Jan 16, 2012 Full Review Barfly (1987) 76% B- “As I write about Barfly, I do seem to be talking myself into greater admiration for it, or at least into a sense of welcome design beneath its superficial inertia.” – Nick's Flick Picks Jan 13, 2012 Full Review The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004) 69% C+ “"There was no real Peter Sellers"... As a theme, it smells of the tired cop-out, somewhere in the same clubhouse of desiccated phrases as "I love you, but I'm not in love with you" and "In a crazy world, only the mad people are sane."” – Nick's Flick Picks Jan 13, 2012 Full Review The Emperor's Candlesticks (1937) D+ “In Rainer's case, The Emperor's Candlesticks seems unusually revealing, doffing the dropcloth from exactly the sort of peculiar, temporarily arresting artifact she was, guaranteed to inspire buyer's remorse.” – Nick's Flick Picks Jan 12, 2012 Full Review Twelfth Night (1996) 76% C+ “I started watching the film by thinking, "They should film more of the comedies," and probably They still should, but I ended by thinking, "They really ought to hire movie directors to make movies."” – Nick's Flick Picks Jan 8, 2012 Full Review Heroes for Sale (1933) 75% B+ “A Pre-Code Battle in Seattle... Heroes for Sale is not a perfect film, and not particularly interested in perfection, but really and truly, pretend this isn't a clich: they don't make 'em like this anymore.” – Nick's Flick Picks Jan 5, 2012 Full Review The Little Drummer Girl (1984) 50% C “Stark criticisms are unavoidable, even as I'm forced to admit that the film is one of those wrongly-assembled movies that is built on such an unusual Hollywood premise...that it eventually becomes halfway fascinating.” – Nick's Flick Picks Jan 5, 2012 Full Review The Glass Menagerie (1950) B- “The Glass Menagerie has a lot going for it, even if director Irving Rapper (Now, Voyager) misses several opportunities to take the characters deeper.” – Nick's Flick Picks Jan 5, 2012 Full Review
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