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Nate Hood Reviews is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Nathanael Hood.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
9/10
Nomadland (2020) Nathanael Hood One of the melancholy pleasures of Chloé Zhao's masterful new film Nomadland is determining where the fact ends and the fiction begins.
Posted Mar 15, 2021  Edit critic review
8/10
The White Tiger (2021) Nathanael Hood You could draw a direct through-line from old Hollywood gangster movies to this one.
Posted Feb 15, 2021  Edit critic review
7/10
Eyes of Laura Mars (1978) Nathanael Hood Kershner turns the film into an exercise of stylistic excess...
Posted Apr 08, 2020  Edit critic review
7/10
Story of Women (1988) Nathanael Hood ...even during wartime, Chabrol argues, women have a right to live for themselves.
Posted Apr 07, 2020  Edit critic review
4/10
Affair in Trinidad (1952) Nathanael Hood ...an idiot rip-off of Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious (1946)
Posted Apr 07, 2020  Edit critic review
7/10
The Sheltering Sky (1990) Nathanael Hood Working with legendary cinematographer and longtime collaborator Vittorio Storaro, Bertolucci constructed one of the most visually gorgeous films of his career.
Posted Apr 06, 2020  Edit critic review
5/10
Johnny O'Clock (1947) Nathanael Hood ...a head-scratching misfire.
Posted Apr 03, 2020  Edit critic review
7/10
Excalibur (1981) Nathanael Hood Excalibur feels like watching ancient legend brought to life, not refurbished for modern palettes.
Posted Mar 27, 2020  Edit critic review
9/10
A Ghost Story (2017) Nathanael Hood Here is a film that's alive-truly alive-in a way very few are.
Posted Feb 29, 2020  Edit critic review
1/10
Sonic the Hedgehog (2020) Nathanael Hood Sonic the Hedgehog isn't a movie, it's a ninety-nine minute monstrosity made by corporations for other corporations.
Posted Feb 18, 2020  Edit critic review
5/10
Meatballs (1979) Nathanael Hood Amusing in an antiquated way? Perhaps. But funny? No.
Posted Feb 02, 2020  Edit critic review
9/10
The Return (2003) Nathanael Hood The kind of movie you watch between your fingers as you hold your hands up to your face for protection.
Posted Jan 26, 2020  Edit critic review
7/10
Wishmaster (1997) Nathanael Hood The joy of Wishmaster [is that] it's a game to see if the audience can out-think and out-predict what the Djinn will do and how he'll do it.
Posted Jan 19, 2020  Edit critic review
8/10
Honey Boy (2019) Nathanael Hood Honey Boy is one of the precious few [films] that feels like an act of grace itself. It's one of the most humbling film experiences of the year.
Posted Dec 02, 2019  Edit critic review
Doctor Sleep (2019) Nathanael Hood ...those who choose to walk the halls of the Overlook once more might be pleasantly surprised.
Posted Nov 11, 2019  Edit critic review
6/10
The Addams Family (2019) Nathanael Hood Despite its infantilized treatment of the family it still provides enough creative set-pieces and heart-warming character moments to please both fans and newcomers.
Posted Oct 14, 2019  Edit critic review
7/10
Joker (2019) Nathanael Hood It's brazen rejection of subtext in favor of brash surface literalism is downright Samuel Fullerian.
Posted Oct 05, 2019  Edit critic review
8/10
The Peanut Butter Falcon (2019) Nathanael Hood I hope the people who hate those with Down syndrome see this movie so they can see how wrong they are and become nicer.
Posted Sep 07, 2019  Edit critic review
7/10
The Farewell (2019) Nathanael Hood Wang weaves a powerful tale about trans-cultural humanism.
Posted Jul 28, 2019  Edit critic review
7/10
Hi Diddle Diddle (1943) Nathanael Hood A raucously entertaining spitfire of a movie that barely clocks over 70 minutes, the film emulates the bourgeois gentility of classic screwball comedies while channeling the anarchic silliness of 1940s Hollywood comedies.
Posted Jul 06, 2019  Edit critic review
9/10
Midsommar (2019) Nathanael Hood [The film sees] the full blossoming of a visual style that can loosely be described as a less baroque Wes Anderson, obsessed with symmetry, artificiality, and angular camera movements.
Posted Jul 06, 2019  Edit critic review
8/10
The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019) Nathanael Hood Here is a film about a city and the people who inhabit it, and though it sometimes suffers from sluggish pacing and the odd moment of pretentiousness, it's a testament to the humanity that unites us all, even as it tears some of us apart.
Posted Jun 10, 2019  Edit critic review
8/10
Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) Nathanael Hood This is cinema as unapologetic spectacle, done properly, done reverently, done joyously.
Posted Jun 03, 2019  Edit critic review
7/10
Rocketman (2019) Nathanael Hood What the film lacks in originality within the biopic formula it makes up for in execution where, like the plasticine films of Ken Russell and Terry Gilliam, you never know when reality will burst at its seams.
Posted Jun 02, 2019  Edit critic review
7/10
Apollo 11 (2019) Nathanael Hood ...a sober, sobering account of the greatest scientific achievement of the twentieth century.
Posted Apr 15, 2019  Edit critic review
5/10
Missing Link (2019) Nathanael Hood ...by far the most thematically anodyne and mealymouthed film in Laika's filmography.
Posted Apr 15, 2019  Edit critic review
5/10
Murder! (1930) Nathanael Hood A strange civilian policier-cum-whodunit, Hitchcock seems bored by his material...
Posted Apr 11, 2019  Edit critic review
8/10
Shazam! (2019) Nathanael Hood Not only is Shazam! the best DC Extended Universe film...it's also the best DC Comics movie since Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight.
Posted Apr 06, 2019  Edit critic review
8/10
Mr. Jimmy (2019) Nathanael Hood ...captivating, frightening....
Posted Mar 17, 2019  Edit critic review
7/10
Alita: Battle Angel (2019) Nathanael Hood This isn't just science-fiction with a heart, it's science-fiction with a soul.
Posted Feb 16, 2019  Edit critic review
5/10
Warlock (1959) Nathanael Hood ...stretches to two hours but feels at least twice as long.
Posted Feb 12, 2019  Edit critic review
3/10
30 Miles From Nowhere (2018) Nathanael Hood ...a boring thriller with second-rate scares and a third-rate twist.
Posted Feb 11, 2019  Edit critic review
7/10
The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part (2019) Nathanael Hood ...the jokes still land, the characters still shine, and the music is still as deliciously, self-consciously catchy as in the first.
Posted Feb 09, 2019  Edit critic review
5/10
Velvet Buzzsaw (2019) Nathanael Hood Dan Gilroy's Velvet Buzzsaw needed to be either thirty minutes shorter or an hour longer.
Posted Feb 03, 2019  Edit critic review
9/10
But I'm a Cheerleader (1999) Nathanael Hood Both stylistic subversive and defiantly upbeat-it's one of the few prominent gay films of its era with a happy ending-it's a masterpiece of LGBT cinema. I suppose the 90s just weren't ready for it.
Posted Jan 27, 2019  Edit critic review
6/10
Glass (2019) Nathanael Hood What the film lacks in sanity and formal brilliance...it makes up for in charisma and enthusiasm.
Posted Jan 21, 2019  Edit critic review
6/10
Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story (2005) Nathanael Hood A Cock and Bull Story is an admirable effort, but an ultimately disappointing one.
Posted Jan 12, 2019  Edit critic review
5/10
Went the Day Well? (1942) Nathanael Hood Its jingoistic nastiness and nationalist aggrandizement makes this film exactly the kind of nonsense Powell & Pressburger's The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp was made in response to.
Posted Jan 12, 2019  Edit critic review
4/10
Action Point (2018) Nathanael Hood All the best stunts in the film were already shown in the trailer.
Posted Jan 12, 2019  Edit critic review
7/10
Widows (2018) Nathanael Hood It might masquerade as a heist film about a group of widows pulling off a job after their husbands are all killed in a robbery-gone-wrong, but this is a steely-eyed interrogation of a city: Chicago.
Posted Jan 12, 2019  Edit critic review
8/10
Overlord (2018) Nathanael Hood Overlord is a perfect example of great execution trumping originality.
Posted Jan 12, 2019  Edit critic review
7/10
Mary and The Witch's Flower (2017) Nathanael Hood As the little boy sitting behind me whispered to his mom near the end: "Is it almost over? Because I never want it to end."
Posted Jan 12, 2019  Edit critic review
9/10
First Reformed (2017) Nathanael Hood ...exactly the kind of discourse American cinema desperately needs.
Posted Jan 12, 2019  Edit critic review
8/10
The Favourite (2018) Nathanael Hood I can think of no better review for Yorgos Lanthimos' The Favourite than the man sitting next to me in the theater audibly gasping four different times at the cinematography.
Posted Jan 12, 2019  Edit critic review
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