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John Nugent

John Nugent's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).

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The Rip (2026) 80% 4/5 EDIT “A gripping, zig-zaggy potboiler, this is a crime thriller in the old-school tradition, with some enjoyable turns from Boston’s finest, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck.” – Empire Magazine Jan 17, 2026 Full Review The Voice of Hind Rajab (2025) 95% 4/5 EDIT “About as powerful as cinema gets. Its hybrid blend of documentary audio and devastating dramatisation is heart-wrenchingly, shatteringly effective.” – Empire Magazine Jan 17, 2026 Full Review The Extraordinary Miss Flower (2025) 91% 4/5 EDIT “A true original: an impressionistic portrait of a lost life, recreated in multiple forms with a gorgeous soundtrack. Odd, but unique.” – Empire Magazine Jan 14, 2026 Full Review Hamnet (2025) 86% 4/5 EDIT “With strong performances in service to a clear, confident vision from Chloé Zhao, this is a wrenching contemplation of the “undiscovered country” of death and grief.” – Empire Magazine Jan 9, 2026 Full Review Ella McCay (2025) 22% 2/5 EDIT “An odd, messy, misjudged shambles. You can’t fault the earnest tone or the plucky performances, but you can fault almost everything else.” – Empire Magazine Dec 12, 2025 Full Review Desperate Journey (2025) 3/5 EDIT “A lavish if not especially profound World War II drama, Desperate Journey gets by thanks to its earnest belief in its remarkable protagonist, and the need for his tale to be shared.” – Empire Magazine Dec 2, 2025 Full Review Train Dreams (2025) 95% 4/5 EDIT “Haunting, serenely composed and beautiful, this is an elegy for a life and a country that America used to be. ” – Empire Magazine Dec 2, 2025 Full Review The Carpenter's Son (2025) 31% 2/5 EDIT “This is not the messiah. Nor is it a very naughty boy. There was an opportunity for a truly original spin on the so-called Greatest Story Ever Told here, but The Carpenter’s Son pulls its punches to make a rather rote horror that amounts to little.” – Empire Magazine Dec 2, 2025 Full Review Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) 92% 4/5 EDIT “Gothic, iconoclastic, engrossing, slyly excoriating of modern-day America and very funny to boot, it’s another solidly satisfying whodunnit from Benny B. Keep them coming, please.” – Empire Magazine Nov 24, 2025 Full Review Wicked: For Good (2025) 66% 3/5 EDIT “Not quite over the rainbow, then, but just enough of its colours and candour to get by.” – Empire Magazine Nov 18, 2025 Full Review Christmas Karma (2025) 24% 2/5 EDIT “Gurinder Chadha’s Dickens do-over is a typically original perspective on a canonical classic, if let down by its stretched production values and unlikable songs. But it aims only to be a crowd-pleaser, and may yet become one. ” – Empire Magazine Nov 13, 2025 Full Review Now You See Me: Now You Don't (2025) 60% 2/5 EDIT “Now You Three Me, as it should be called, offers ample 2010s nostalgia, but not quite enough brainless fun lands successfully. Put this rabbit back in the hat.” – Empire Magazine Nov 13, 2025 Full Review The Running Man (2025) 62% 4/5 EDIT “It's Wright's biggest, boldest canvas yet, and while it is less funny or flashily directed than his earlier fare, he doesn't miss a chance to rib American popular culture or the capitalist horrors it fostered, as King once did.” – Empire Magazine Nov 11, 2025 Full Review Eden (2024) 58% 2/5 EDIT “This is an odd attempt at satire that takes a fascinating slice of real-life stranger-than-fiction history and somehow makes it less interesting.” – Empire Magazine Nov 3, 2025 Full Review Bugonia (2025) 88% 4/5 EDIT “Riveting, unhinged, and sardonic to its honey-soaked core, this is another Lanthimos-Stone winner. (With a great opening-title typeface, to boot.)” – Empire Magazine Oct 28, 2025 Full Review TRON: Ares (2025) 53% 3/5 EDIT “A few key elements keep this data file from being totally corrupted... The real MVPs, however, are Nine Inch Nails, whose staggeringly brilliant soundtrack dominates the entire proceedings. ” – Empire Magazine Oct 7, 2025 Full Review Play Dirty (2025) 42% 3/5 EDIT “Not quite vintage Black, and Mark Wahlberg is no Robert Downey Jr, but this is fast and funny enough to be worth a couple of your hours. Squint hard enough and it almost feels like you’re back in the ’90s.” – Empire Magazine Oct 3, 2025 Full Review The Smashing Machine (2025) 70% 4/5 EDIT “As a newly solo director, Safdie summons a thoughtful and moving mood for this unconventional sports film; as a newly serious dramatic actor, Johnson is about to win some awards.” – Empire Magazine Oct 3, 2025 Full Review All of You (2024) 71% 3/5 EDIT “All Of You might only work for some of you, but the easy, insatiable fire between Goldstein and Poots is undeniable.” – Empire Magazine Sep 29, 2025 Full Review Spinal Tap II: The End Continues (2025) 65% 2/5 EDIT “This collection of tired jokes is enough to prompt the question, “What day did the Lord create Spinal Tap II: The End Continues, and couldn’t he have rested on that day too?”” – Empire Magazine Sep 13, 2025 Full Review I Swear (2025) 100% 4/5 EDIT “Just lovely. Tourette syndrome has not been afforded its cinematic dues, but what an affable, funny character to explore it with in John Davidson -- and what a performance from Robert Aramayo.” – Empire Magazine Sep 8, 2025 Full Review Eenie Meanie (2025) 43% 4/5 EDIT “A heck of a debut from first-timer Shawn Simmons, and another powerful argument for A-list status for Samara Weaving. Bring on the sequel, which is obliged to be titled ‘Miny Moe’. ” – Empire Magazine Aug 25, 2025 Full Review Eddington (2025) 68% 4/5 EDIT “An audacious, farcically funny digest of where we are now, and how we got here: the cinematic equivalent of pandemic primal therapy, a mad scream into the void.” – Empire Magazine Aug 20, 2025 Full Review The Pickup (2025) 25% 2/5 EDIT “A weak shadow of Eddie Murphy’s action-comedy yesteryear, The Pickup would be better off being left unpicked.” – Empire Magazine Aug 13, 2025 Full Review Weapons (2025) 93% 5/5 EDIT “A hugely accomplished horror achievement, and a significant step up from Barbarian: tense, sad, hilarious, unsettling, ridiculously entertaining, and ultimately oddly uplifting.” – Empire Magazine Aug 6, 2025 Full Review
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