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Nathan Southern

Nathan Southern's reviews do not count toward the Tomatometer®. This is not a Tomatometer-approved critic, and this critic's reviews are not published on a Tomatometer-approved publication.

Reviews

Movies TV Shows
Chef (2014) 87% 1.5/4 EDIT “Writer/director Jon Favreau's gentle comedy-drama Chef is an odd duck -- a schizoid effort that never seems to grasp its own strengths.” – TV Guide Jan 5, 2015 Full Review The Overnighters (2014) 97% 3.5/4 EDIT “The Overnighters, an ambitious documentary about the plight of the working class directed, produced, and photographed by Jesse Moss, is one of the trickiest nonfiction films to emerge in quite some time.” – TV Guide Jan 5, 2015 Full Review Locke (2013) 91% 4/4 EDIT “The fact that Locke delivers, then, is splendid news, especially for fans of onscreen minimalism and alternative approaches to familiar stories.” – TV Guide Jan 5, 2015 Full Review A Most Wanted Man (2014) 86% 4/4 EDIT “All minor reservations aside, the movie must be counted as a great success.” – TV Guide Jan 5, 2015 Full Review Love Is Strange (2014) 93% 4.5/5 EDIT “One of the most beautifully and incisively observed family dramas in recent memory ...” – TV Guide Jan 4, 2015 Full Review The Babadook (2014) 98% 3/4 EDIT “Tthrowback horror picture that grips us with pounding in the night, startling effects such as the appearance of roaches and pools of black blood, and lightning-flash manifestations of the supernatural.” – TV Guide Jan 3, 2015 Full Review Life Itself (2014) 98% 2/4 EDIT “To be certain, some of the footage interpolated here is entertaining, but this has to count as a missed opportunity.” – TV Guide Jul 6, 2014 Full Review Jersey Boys (2014) 51% 2/4 EDIT “The Four Seasons' tunes, many of them bubblegummy, up-tempo, and carefree, are at odds with the pseudo-Cassavetes emotional brutality of the characters' interactions.” – TV Guide Jun 20, 2014 Full Review Under the Skin (2013) 83% 3.5/4 EDIT “Writer/director Jonathan Glazer's art-house sci-fi allegory Under the Skin slips up on the viewer so surreptitiously that the pull of its final 30 minutes comes as a bit of a shock.” – TV Guide May 15, 2014 Full Review Like Father, Like Son (2013) 86% 4/4 EDIT “This is a profound and remarkable work, and like Still Walking, it reasserts Koreeda's place among the ranks of the world's greatest living directors.” – TV Guide Apr 16, 2014 Full Review Salinger (2013) 39% 3/4 EDIT “An emotionally stirring and affecting work, albeit a flawed one.” – TV Guide Jan 29, 2014 Full Review War Witch (2012) 94% 3.5/4 EDIT “The picture is far and away most effective in its sequences of quiet lyricism.” – TV Guide Dec 17, 2013 Full Review All Is Lost (2013) 95% 4/4 EDIT “The movie has the feel of a beautifully conceived and elegantly composed short story with a remarkable and consistently surprising degree of emotional resonance.” – TV Guide Dec 16, 2013 Full Review Inch'Allah (2012) 56% 4/4 EDIT “This beautifully and cunningly crafted motion picture is long overdue.” – TV Guide Aug 26, 2013 Full Review Lovelace (2013) 53% 2.5/4 EDIT “Enough of this film works to merit a moderate recommendation, though the next time that Friedman and Epstein take on such a challenging character... they should consider gauging the structure of their script more carefully.” – TV Guide Aug 9, 2013 Full Review The Spectacular Now (2013) 92% 2/4 EDIT “The film eventually begins to work against itself and erodes the goodwill that it had earned.” – TV Guide Aug 2, 2013 Full Review We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks (2013) 91% 4/4 EDIT “The movie is so beautifully crafted and realized that it might well be called flawless.” – TV Guide May 24, 2013 Full Review Augustine (2012) 75% 1.5/4 EDIT “It would be fascinating to know what the writer/director intended here, because the material is so hopelessly muddled.” – TV Guide May 17, 2013 Full Review Kiss of the Damned (2012) 68% 3.5/4 EDIT “A rare treat, especially for those who like to see grindhouse-oriented subject matter done with intelligence and substance.” – TV Guide May 3, 2013 Full Review Chicken With Plums (2011) 74% 2.5/4 EDIT “On a scene-by-scene basis, much of Chicken With Plums delivers satisfactorily, but it adds up to much less than the sum of its many parts.” – TV Guide Apr 14, 2013 Full Review Like Someone in Love (2012) 83% 3/4 EDIT “It would be difficult to overstate the success of the bulk of this picture. Throughout, we get the bravura technique that we look forward to in a Kiarostami film.” – TV Guide Mar 15, 2013 Full Review The Island President (2011) 98% 3.5/4 EDIT “One only hopes that the documentary will help advance Nasheed's mission and inspire others to join arms out of shared ecological concern.” – TV Guide Jan 7, 2013 Full Review The Invisible War (2011) 99% 4/4 EDIT “The film delivers a sledgehammer blow to the audience, with an experience every bit as shattering and overwhelming as one might infer from the subject matter.” – TV Guide Jan 7, 2013 Full Review Wuthering Heights (2011) 69% 2/4 EDIT “One can admire the sublimity of Arnold's aesthetic compositions and framing, as well as the generally solid acting from a nonprofessional cast, but that's to no avail when the movie misses its emotional targets.” – TV Guide Oct 5, 2012 Full Review Portrait of Wally (2012) 90% 3.5/4 EDIT “As Shea's film approaches its conclusion, a wonderful and unexpected sense of empathy suddenly materializes.” – TV Guide May 29, 2012 Full Review
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