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Scott Nye

Scott Nye's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Train Dreams (2025) 95% EDIT “...regrettably facile...” – Battleship Pretension Oct 28, 2025 Full Review The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) 88% EDIT “...cstatically divine...” – Battleship Pretension Oct 28, 2025 Full Review 8 1/2 (1963) 97% EDIT “The conflict between Guido’s discomfort for the nature of his fame and the driving force that led him there drives every interaction in the film.” – Battleship Pretension Jan 27, 2025 Full Review Scarface (1932) 98% EDIT “In an era of pure id, Howard Hawks’s Scarface still manages to feel especially elemental. ” – Battleship Pretension Dec 26, 2024 Full Review The Brutalist (2024) 93% EDIT “I cannot wait to see it again.” – Battleship Pretension Dec 19, 2024 Full Review Nowhere (1997) 50% EDIT “Nowhere is a total explosion of ambition, originally crafted as a TV pilot and crammed with enough characters to fill several seasons, it chases them for 78 relentless minutes through the hills and valleys of Los Angeles and existence itself.” – Battleship Pretension Nov 21, 2024 Full Review The Doom Generation (1995) 55% EDIT “To call its queerness subtext is an insult to subtext.” – Battleship Pretension Nov 21, 2024 Full Review Totally F... ed Up (1993) 100% EDIT “It’s a stark film about loneliness, isolation, and desperation for connection.” – Battleship Pretension Nov 21, 2024 Full Review Bird (2024) 86% EDIT “Her stock story – a young girl with a rough home life finds inspiration from a wandering stranger – is Arnold’s once again to frustrate, challenge, indulge, and upend.” – Battleship Pretension Nov 7, 2024 Full Review The Substance (2024) 89% EDIT “I loved it precisely for its abundance and lack of abandon, its determination to carry things – even the small, minute-to-minute things – far further than they ever needed to go.” – Battleship Pretension Sep 21, 2024 Full Review Last Year at Marienbad (1961) 93% EDIT “More than nearly any other film, the sense of Marienbad’s characters being definite people is particularly abstract.” – Battleship Pretension Sep 15, 2024 Full Review Between the Temples (2024) 84% EDIT “Technical merits are especially exemplary. ” – Battleship Pretension Aug 23, 2024 Full Review Farewell My Concubine (1993) 90% EDIT “What Farewell My Concubine is, most clearly, immediately, and strikingly, is staggeringly beautiful.” – Battleship Pretension Aug 20, 2024 Full Review Brokeback Mountain (2005) 88% EDIT “It remains a rarely-surpassed high-watermark for both Ledger and Gyllenhaal, who were both nominated (it remains Gyllenhaal’s only nod), and who each capture something in their characters and something in themselves as actors that seems a tad elusive.” – Battleship Pretension Aug 1, 2024 Full Review Risky Business (1983) 93% EDIT “It displays an aesthetic maturity and patience uncommon to the teen sex film that was starting to blossom at the time of its release. ” – Battleship Pretension Jul 23, 2024 Full Review Victims of Sin (1950) 100% EDIT “The noir elements come late in the film and worth discovering for yourself, but the way the film ties a violent threat to a paternal figure is very key to the feminist underpinnings at work in it.” – Battleship Pretension Jul 17, 2024 Full Review Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) 50% EDIT “It’s a film for the young and those who think like them. That’s a great thing.” – Battleship Pretension Jul 6, 2024 Full Review Ceddo (1977) 80% EDIT “...driving home a lesson that’s beyond instruction, a sense that just as individuals must choose their own fate, so too must a nation, and potentially a continent.” – Battleship Pretension Jun 18, 2024 Full Review Xala (1975) 91% EDIT “...Sembène isn’t concern with subtlety; he’s taking too much pleasure in tightening the screws.” – Battleship Pretension Jun 18, 2024 Full Review The Gods (1972) EDIT “The potential simplicity of this depiction is further contrasted with the singular sense of purpose within the French army against the divisions and uncertainty of direction within the villagers...” – Battleship Pretension Jun 18, 2024 Full Review Floating Weeds (1959) 96% EDIT “In his commentary track for Floating Weeds, Roger Ebert notes that Ozu’s films leave him feeling at peace, comparing unfavorably the raised heartbeat and constant excitement he gets reviewing Hollywood films.” – Battleship Pretension Jun 5, 2024 Full Review A Story of Floating Weeds (1934) 100% EDIT “A Story of Floating Weeds is derived from a high-definition master supervised by Criterion’s Technical Director Lee Kline.” – Battleship Pretension Jun 5, 2024 Full Review I Saw the TV Glow (2024) 85% EDIT “In further burying the film in what others have accomplished elsewhere, its imitative streak pulses through all the more fervently.” – Battleship Pretension May 2, 2024 Full Review Dogfight (1991) 87% EDIT “The film operates in a productive push-pull between a sense of nostalgia that’s endemic to 60s-set films made in the 90s, and an active examination of the misogyny and cruelty that gradually ramped up in the seemingly-idyllic culture during the 1950s.” – Battleship Pretension May 2, 2024 Full Review Werckmeister Harmonies (2000) 98% EDIT “ While he doesn’t provide what we might call “narrative beats,” his approach to storytelling is quite classical...” – Battleship Pretension Apr 24, 2024 Full Review
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