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Nick Rogers

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Biography:

I have been covering arts & entertainment, as well as writing general features, for the past 13 years at various print outlets in Illinois and have been reviewing films since 1995.

Favorites:

BEST OF RECENT YEARS - There Will Be Blood, United 93, A History of Violence, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, About Schmidt, The Royal Tenenbaums, Traffic, American Beauty, Saving Private Ryan, L.A. Confidential, Sling BladeGUILTY PLEASURES - Deep Rising, Mouse Hunt, Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo, From Dusk Till Dawn, Jackass: The Movie, Road House, XXX

Location:

Lafayette, IN

Reviews

Movies 온라인카지노추천 Shows
Sherlock Holmes (2009) 70% 4/5 “The film lets character elements breathe before enshrouding Sherlock Holmes in a rather rote mystery. Even amid herky-jerky rushes of headlong exposition, Robert Downey, Jr. keeps the proceedings humming at a good clip with amusing performative nuance.” – Midwest Film Journal Apr 28, 2025 Full Review The Good German (2006) 34% 1.5/5 “The film attempts deconstruction of a reconstruction, pessimistically insisting there is no point to that when you can’t understand basic human nature. In that regard, "The Good German" is ambitious but simply a dirge, with no ire or fire to its insights.” – Midwest Film Journal Apr 26, 2025 Full Review Havoc (2025) 64% 3/5 “Although a pair of action setpieces makes up for a maddeningly slow first half, "Havoc" feels like writer-director Gareth Evans punching the last thing you'd expect — a clock. ” – Midwest Film Journal Apr 24, 2025 Full Review Foul Play (1978) 72% 2/5 “At 116 minutes, there’s simply too much space for momentum to dissipate, whether from gags like Burgess Meredith as an unexpected action hero or vivid automobile stunts, and Foul Play feels as much like a missed opportunity now as in its heyday.” – Midwest Film Journal Apr 22, 2025 Full Review Donovan's Reef (1963) 67% 3.5/5 “The film roots its rollicking in the rocky road of racial reparations, how the rejection of the rot that can foster is harder than it seems, and an almost radical honesty about harmony that continues to elude us.” – Midwest Film Journal Apr 22, 2025 Full Review I'm All Right, Jack (1960) 82% 2/5 “Peter Sellers & Ian Carmichael deliver strong turns. Unfortunately, whatever satiric bite "I'm All Right Jack" clamped down with has been left to its era — a film built for Sellers completists, 20th-century Britain historians and / or union-cinema fans.” – Midwest Film Journal Apr 8, 2025 Full Review Hit Man (1972) 3/5 “George Armitage didn’t make many films but he often made them matter — a sort of ethnographic exploration of crimes and their underpinning cultures. Although the thread count exceeds energy early on, "Hit Man" is a satisfying slice of vengeance cinema.” – Midwest Film Journal Apr 7, 2025 Full Review The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921) 86% 3/5 “The film gets a bit lost in the sprawl of the second half, attempting to substitute all-manner-of-man-and-animal spectacle for the smaller, more engaging squabbles that have hooked us. But even in a Discord era, it's a powerful reflection on discord.” – Midwest Film Journal Apr 7, 2025 Full Review Dolores Claiborne (1995) 86% 4/5 “Earns its keep among the best King adaptations for its depiction of lives with eternal asterisks — the horrors that quickly crash & slowly recede when you least expect, that you can’t really see lurking in any shadows but that you can always, always feel.” – Midwest Film Journal Mar 26, 2025 Full Review Locked (2025) 66% 3/5 “Even when "Locked" gets stuck in stop-and-go pacing as it tries to find another gear, it remains a reasonably engaging two-hander in which Anthony Hopkins has a cheery old time chastising his fifth (or sixth) generation of leading men in Bill Skarsgård.” – Midwest Film Journal Mar 19, 2025 Full Review Event Horizon (1997) 35% 3/5 “Although its final act falls apart, "Event Horizon" initially soars on the hubristic context of "We can and so we will." That's a fast way to make meals of minds and meaning, and so much of its production design resembles an eternally insatiable mouth.” – Midwest Film Journal Mar 17, 2025 Full Review The End (1978) 56% 3/5 “While it's hardly "Harold & Maude" and too much of the back half is given over to Dom DeLuise's mugging, Burt Reynolds' "The End" is also generally more sedate, subtle and somber than its silly poster art would suggest.” – Midwest Film Journal Mar 11, 2025 Full Review Gabriel Over the White House (1933) 71% 3.5/5 “Its political identity rests somewhere between Frank Capra and Frank Booth, positing a more benevolent brand of stateside dictatorship than that practiced at the time by Benito Mussolini or Joseph Stalin. A conflicted but fascinating thought experiment.” – Midwest Film Journal Mar 11, 2025 Full Review Mickey 17 (2025) 77% 2.5/5 “Strong and occasionally soulful sci-fi satire at its outset, but writer-director Bong Joon-ho gives over its third act to a cacophony of focus, performance and tone pitched at spiking volume. It basically turns into "Okja: Uprising" for no real reason.” – Midwest Film Journal Mar 9, 2025 Full Review The Rule of Jenny Pen (2024) 71% 2.5/5 “John Lithgow, Geoffrey Rush and George Henare all deliver strong performances in this psychological horror film (with Lithgow particularly getting a strong sicko swan song). But the screenplay seems to be making up all of its own rules as it goes along.” – Midwest Film Journal Mar 6, 2025 Full Review Billy Madison (1995) 41% 4/5 “The Adam Sandler milieu of male mistakes and fixation on frustration was perhaps never more concentrated than it was in his first film — which commits as deeply to its sincerity as it does to its rampant silliness.” – Midwest Film Journal Feb 25, 2025 Full Review Cleaner (2025) 50% 3/5 “"Under Squeegee," if you will. Martin Campbell's latest action film compensates for its fiscally vertical limitations through character-driven verve and treating violence as punctuation rather than a relentless run-on sentence.” – Midwest Film Journal Feb 17, 2025 Full Review The Gorge (2025) 63% 3/5 “High-concept sci-fi action with just enough room for actors to move in interesting ways amid all the digitally enhanced chaos. "The Gorge" stretches out some hooky ideas, thematic tension and strong chemistry between Miles Teller and Anya Taylor-Joy.” – Midwest Film Journal Feb 13, 2025 Full Review The Nice Guys (2016) 91% 4/5 “The ultimate wedding of Shane Black’s wily, aesthetically winsome & warm-hearted sides. In a story of discovering you can fight city hall (so to speak), its mantra is etched ON city hall: “He that violates its oath profanes the divinity of faith itself.”” – Midwest Film Journal Feb 11, 2025 Full Review Love Hurts (2025) 19% 1.5/5 “It's nice to have a sleek, canny, genre mashup in theatres predicated on Valentine's Day violence, the unexpected utility of a straw as a weapon, and the dialogue "Love hurts." Too bad the compliments in that description do not apply to "Love Hurts."” – Midwest Film Journal Feb 7, 2025 Full Review I'm Still Here (2024) 97% 4.5/5 “Avoiding traditional traps of political persecution dramas, "I'm Still Here" largely focuses the film’s excavations of truth, inequity and justice on the marriage and the family at its center in Brazil circa 1970, anchored by a brilliant Fernanda Torres.” – Midwest Film Journal Feb 4, 2025 Full Review Blood Simple (1984) 94% 4/5 “It’s easy to presume Joel and Ethan Coen had to grow into their exceptional attunement to the invisible forces of the universe that either jolt us awake or lull us into deceptively comforting slumber. Nope. They've been in command of that from the jump.” – Midwest Film Journal Jan 27, 2025 Full Review September 5 (2024) 93% 3.5/5 “Although technically sharp, well-acted and consistently tense, a lack of perspective on what the day's events wrought in journalism ultimately undoes the otherwise transfixing spell.” – Midwest Film Journal Jan 24, 2025 Full Review Sniper: The Last Stand (2025) 3/5 “There are some obvious frustrations and limitations inherent to the low-budget concern of the whole thing. But the "Sniper" franchise has found a solid — and refreshingly female-centric — groove in its third decade.” – Midwest Film Journal Jan 23, 2025 Full Review The Searchers (1956) 87% 4.5/5 “A visually majestic celebration of our nation’s splendor & a eulogy for the way all of our hope is flattened over time into common denominators of despair. The generations whom we believe will see the apex of our national potential never do & never will.” – Midwest Film Journal Jan 18, 2025 Full Review
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