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Culture Cabinet is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Dan Bayer, Nicole Ackman.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
3/5
Captain America: Brave New World (2025) Nicole Ackman Let’s get one thing out of the way: Sam Wilson is the correct character to take on the mantle of Captain America. Whatever issues Captain America: Brave New World has, they’re not Sam Wilson or actor Anthony Mackie’s fault.
Posted Feb 17, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Inside Out 2 (2024) Nicole Ackman Inside Out 2 is an all-around impressive directorial debut from Kelsey Mann...It more than lives up to the legacy of Inside Out, giving a much more nuanced and well-developed exploration of its genius concept.
Posted Jun 15, 2024  Edit critic review
4/5
Nowhere Special (2020) Nicole Ackman Nowhere Special is a beautiful testament to the love between a father and son, the lengths that a parent will go to for their child even while suffering themselves...while Norton’s performance is a perfect centerpiece for the story.
Posted Apr 26, 2024  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Wicked Little Letters (2023) Nicole Ackman What Sharrock and the writer, comedian Jonny Sweet, do well is translate the story in a way that maintains all of its raucous humor while also highlighting the ways in which it exposes the misogyny that women lived through in this time period.
Posted Apr 08, 2024  Edit critic review
4/5
The Beautiful Game (2024) Nicole Ackman The Beautiful Game is a rare film that the whole family can enjoy, that features great performances, and shares information about a worthy but under-recognized organization.
Posted Mar 24, 2024  Edit critic review
4.5/5
One Life (2023) Nicole Ackman One Life is, in many ways, your typical British biopic. However, it’s elevated by strong performances and the important, largely forgotten story it tells.
Posted Mar 17, 2024  Edit critic review
4/5
Out of Darkness (2022) Nicole Ackman Out of Darkness is an unconventional survival thriller, but one that has much to offer between its conception of a Paleolithic world, the compelling performances, and the unique craftwork.
Posted Feb 26, 2024  Edit critic review
2/5
Freud's Last Session (2023) Nicole Ackman It’s a shame to take such an interesting imagined meeting between two of the most interesting figures of the early twentieth century and squander it by not delving deeply enough into either of their lives or their thoughts.
Posted Jan 22, 2024  Edit critic review
2/5
Mean Girls (2024) Nicole Ackman What happens when you take the watered-down Broadway adaptation of a cult classic film and make a new film from it? In the case of the recently released Mean Girls, it’s a near-disaster of a film that is only kept afloat by its talented cast.
Posted Jan 17, 2024  Edit critic review
3/5
Strange Way of Life (2023) Nicole Ackman If [it] had been a feature film...it could easily have been one of my favorites of the year. But in its actual state, it leaves the audience unsatisfied, like a too-small dessert that whets your appetite for more instead of leaving you feeling satiated.
Posted Oct 02, 2023  Edit critic review
B+
Oppenheimer (2023) Nicole Ackman Oppenheimer’s story is a complicated one, and I’m still not entirely certain that Nolan was the best person to tell it. Though still fettered by some of his usual issues, he creates what is almost certainly his best work in Oppenheimer.
Posted Jul 21, 2023  Edit critic review
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