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Nina Caplan

Nina Caplan's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Motherhood (2009) 20% 1/5 EDIT “I wouldn't care if she was at the epicentre of the movement for global peace: she's a happily married mother who looks like Uma Thurman, and my reserves of sympathy are limited.” – Time Out Mar 5, 2010 Full Review She, a Chinese (2009) 56% 4/5 EDIT “This would be depressing, except that Mei is a delight: a feisty, shrewd young woman, uneducated but intelligent and more than capable of surviving the brickbats life keeps throwing at her.” – Time Out Feb 26, 2010 Full Review Everybody's Fine (2009) 47% 2/5 EDIT “Forget Hollywood remakes; this is one film Iâ(TM)d like to see reworked by an arthouse director and a pack of actors with smaller names and bigger reserves of subtlety.” – Time Out Feb 26, 2010 Full Review Disgrace (2008) 83% 4/5 EDIT “It's an enormously complicated story with great potential for reductive schmaltz, but this is avoided thanks to Anna Maria Monticelli's sharp, sensitive screenplay and superb performances.” – Time Out Dec 4, 2009 Full Review Cracks (2009) 47% 1/5 EDIT “Scott has fashioned a film as ponderous as it is obvious, weighed down by a string-heavy soundtrack and achingly slow editing.” – Time Out Dec 4, 2009 Full Review Love Happens (2009) 17% 2/5 EDIT “The sorrowing widower is a great subject for film romance; but the point is to let the girl have a proper crack at cheering him up. And, as always with love, a GSOH would help.” – Time Out Oct 9, 2009 Full Review My Life in Ruins (2009) 10% 1/5 EDIT “Hollywood doesn't know what to do with difference, any more than it does with ruins. It's about time Vardalos, or someone, gave the suits a guided tour.” – Time Out Oct 4, 2009 Full Review The Agent (2009) 67% 2/5 EDIT “Beck does his best, and the dialogue crackles pleasantly, but he's a caricature: a lying, cheating smear of ordure who doesn't even like books. But his sin is worse than that - it's fiction's biggest. He's boring.” – Time Out Sep 18, 2009 Full Review Julie & Julia (2009) 76% 3/5 EDIT “A film that's charming, funny - especially when Streep is on screen, broadcasting her superb impression of the tall, charismatic, high-pitched Child - but leaves you with a dissatisfaction with modern life that no culinary masterpiece can relieve.” – Time Out Sep 11, 2009 Full Review Adam (2009) 64% 2/5 EDIT “It feels dishonest, which is a problem for a film so interested in truthfulness - especially one trying to reconcile that interest with the demands of a Hollywood romcom.” – Time Out Aug 7, 2009 Full Review Coco Before Chanel (2009) 63% 4/5 EDIT “Fontaine's film is gorgeous, but its beauty is practical, almost textile, like a Chanel tweed.” – Time Out Jul 31, 2009 Full Review The 400 Blows (1959) 99% 5/6 EDIT “One of the first glistening droplets of the French New Wave.” – Time Out Apr 9, 2009 Full Review The Young Victoria (2009) 75% 3/6 EDIT “Dignified and charismatic, Blunt gives great lip-wobble, and Friend pulls off the role of sidekick, but historical twiddling can't render Victoria's love life interesting.” – Time Out Mar 6, 2009 Full Review Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009) 26% 3/6 EDIT “If you want gritty realism, see an arthouse movie. Or shop in a pound store. As journalist Rebecca, Isla Fisher is silly and adorable - just like this adaptation of Sophie Kinsella's novel.” – Time Out Feb 19, 2009 Full Review Australia (2008) 53% 3/6 EDIT “It's a fine romp, epic in both ambition and visuals if not narrative - and if director Baz Luhrmann had stopped at the end of the love story's trajectory, the audience would have left entirely happy.” – Time Out Jan 5, 2009 Full Review I've Loved You So Long (2008) 89% 4/6 EDIT “Claudel understands that his drama lies in letting two superb actresses build their characters, forge their relationship and examine their grief.” – Time Out Sep 26, 2008 Full Review The Queen of Spades (1949) 96% 4/5 EDIT “Pushkin's marvellously histrionic tale of cupidity and terrible vengeance gets a suitably wild-eyed treatment in Thorold Dickinson's 1949 film.” – Time Out Feb 9, 2006 Full Review How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998) 51% EDIT “Stella's groove, like the film itself, doesn't run deep.” – Sight & Sound Mar 5, 2002 Full Review
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