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Nathan Rabin

Nathan Rabin's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Rock 'n' Roll High School (1979) 82% EDIT “Perhaps the highest praise anyone can give Arkush's exuberant musical is to say that it captures the spirit of rock 'n' roll and the essence of the Ramones, which luckily happen to be one and the same.” – AV Club Dec 19, 2025 Full Review Death Race 2000 (1975) 80% EDIT “A gonzo social satire cunningly disguised as a wacky car comedy.” – AV Club Dec 19, 2025 Full Review Day of the Dead (1985) 61% EDIT “Like all the Dead films, it gains depth whenever Romero breaks from the shrieking and dismembering to peruse the makeshift shelters that his characters build, or to ponder how people learn to live with imminent death.” – AV Club Jun 24, 2025 Full Review Night Moves (1975) 78% EDIT “Filled with shadows both literal and figurative, Night Moves elegantly combines the hard-edged pessimism, crackling banter, and all-consuming darkness of classic noir with the paranoia and bitterness that characterizes so much ’70s cinema.” – AV Club May 23, 2025 Full Review Dirty Work (1998) 21% EDIT “If a great movie is one with two great scenes and no bad ones, then Dirty Work is half a great movie. It contains more than its share of bad scenes, but it does have two brilliant ones. ” – AV Club May 14, 2025 Full Review American Psycho 2 (2002) 23% EDIT “Anonymously directed by Morgan J. Freeman, Psycho 2 trades its predecessor's sharp social satire for a mixture of dumbed-down irony, groan-inducing black comedy, and gratuitous bloodshed. ” – AV Club Mar 31, 2025 Full Review Dont Look Back (1967) 92% EDIT “Don't Look Back is a spellbinding portrayal of a gifted artist at the peak of his creative brilliance.” – AV Club May 9, 2022 Full Review Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985) 79% A EDIT “Just as his subject sought to reconcile intellect and action, words and deeds, Schrader finds a perfect union between sound and image, weighty ideas, and giddy sensual rapture.” – AV Club Apr 5, 2022 Full Review Dare (2009) 59% B+ EDIT “I didn't expect much from Dare going in but was pleasantly surprised by its willingness to take chances and push its characters and its audience out of their comfort zones.” – AV Club Aug 4, 2021 Full Review The Secret of My Success (1987) 46% EDIT “The profound moral and spiritual emptiness at the core of The Secret Of My Success keeps it from being the dumb fun promised by its premise, title, and extensive use of Yello.” – The Dissolve Jun 9, 2021 Full Review The Decline of Western Civilization (1981) 100% EDIT “The film's style is as brutal, stripped-down and purposefully devoid of frills as the music of its subjects.” – Globe and Mail May 8, 2021 Full Review The Stunt Man (1980) 90% EDIT “It's a carnivalesque lark whose brevity and gravity are both attributable to the remarkable, pitch-perfect performance of O'Toole...” – The Dissolve Mar 7, 2021 Full Review Buddha of Suburbia (1993) EDIT “Unfortunately, the movie's four hours seem to pass almost as slowly as the eight years of the protagonist's life covered in the film.” – AV Club Feb 18, 2021 Full Review Patrick (1978) 36% EDIT “Unfortunately, Patrick has one huge liability in its comatose killer: Everyone's best efforts still can't make the film's heavy even slightly scary.” – AV Club Oct 23, 2020 Full Review The Girl (2012) 70% EDIT “The Girl fatally lacks a strong take on its story, though Hitchcock himself might have treasured the irony that a film about the ultimate auteur would be undone by the dearth of a strong authorial voice behind the camera.” – AV Club Aug 4, 2020 Full Review Pretty Ugly People (2008) EDIT “Pretty Ugly People has a premise so staggeringly, insultingly stupid that it would require brilliant execution to pull it off. (Unfortunately, the execution isn't even good, let alone brilliant.)” – The Dissolve May 15, 2020 Full Review Hardball (2001) 42% EDIT “Director Brian Robbins' film ultimately seems as uninterested in penetrating the graffiti-scarred walls of its Cabrini Green setting as its white-bread protagonist is.” – AV Club May 13, 2020 Full Review 61* (2001) 86% EDIT “What begins as a lively, vibrant evocation of one of baseball's greatest seasons ends as a frustratingly conventional tale of sports heroism, a sort of upscale movie-of-the-week for the Classic Sports Network crowd.” – AV Club Mar 25, 2020 Full Review How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000) 50% EDIT “Director Ron Howard aims for the beautifully stylized mayhem of Frank Tashlin and Tim Burton, but he comes closer to the clamorous, headache-inducing visual overkill of Joel Schumacher's Batman movies.” – AV Club Nov 6, 2019 Full Review Just Friends (2005) 43% EDIT “This movie had some good ideas, but never gelled.” – AV Club Nov 6, 2019 Full Review The Original Kings of Comedy (2000) 82% EDIT “As a testament to the vitality of black comedy, The Original Kings Of Comedy is a success. As a comedy, however, it's sluggishly paced and not nearly funny enough to justify its two-hour running time.” – AV Club Aug 7, 2019 Full Review Robin Williams: Live on Broadway (2002) 40% EDIT “While Williams is noticeably less hyperactive than in past appearances, he still relies heavily on a quaint combination of antiquated stereotypes and frantic mugging.” – AV Club Aug 6, 2019 Full Review The Way of the Gun (2000) 46% EDIT “Devoid of even one sympathetic character, sluggishly paced, and full of unnecessary subplots and supporting players, The Way Of The Gun is bad enough to suggest that, three films into his career, McQuarrie's best moments are already behind him.” – AV Club Jun 17, 2019 Full Review Postal (2007) 9% C- EDIT “With Postal, Boll clearly set out to make history's most offensive, hateful movie. As is his custom, he failed spectacularly.” – AV Club Apr 25, 2019 Full Review Man on Fire (2004) 39% EDIT “Scott's latest exercise in assaultive excess nevertheless lingers for two and a half hours, like a drunken houseguest who won't leave.” – AV Club Apr 17, 2019 Full Review
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