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Nick Rogers

Tomatometer-approved critic
Biography:

I have been covering arts & entertainment, as well as writing general features, for the past 13 years at various print outlets in Illinois and have been reviewing films since 1995.

Favorites:

BEST OF RECENT YEARS - There Will Be Blood, United 93, A History of Violence, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, About Schmidt, The Royal Tenenbaums, Traffic, American Beauty, Saving Private Ryan, L.A. Confidential, Sling BladeGUILTY PLEASURES - Deep Rising, Mouse Hunt, Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo, From Dusk Till Dawn, Jackass: The Movie, Road House, XXX

Location:

Lafayette, IN

Reviews

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The Shop Around the Corner (1940) 99% 4.5/5 EDIT “To use the film's own dialogue, "a very interesting mixture of poetry and meanness" makes this high-concept romance excel — often yielding generous gravitas and humanity as engaging as the amorous sparks.” – Midwest Film Journal Feb 12, 2026 Full Review The Mortal Storm (1940) 100% 3.5/5 EDIT “Although melodramatic, this remains a direct, affecting story about the vast personal cost of individual deference to deafening group rhetoric. Neither does it waste the spark of James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan's final collaboration.” – Midwest Film Journal Feb 12, 2026 Full Review The Naked Spur (1953) 100% 4/5 EDIT “Another excellent Western from Anthony Mann, exploring metal as the coin of the realm, whether collected in a pan you hold in water or lodged in the pan near your brain.” – Midwest Film Journal Feb 12, 2026 Full Review How the West Was Won (1962) 85% 2.5/5 EDIT “At least in its contemporary presentation, it feels like sitting at a very long, intermittently impressive museum movie. They called it Cinerama because there’s nothing sexy about what it feels like: a diorama.” – Midwest Film Journal Feb 12, 2026 Full Review The Mechanic (1972) 50% 3.5/5 EDIT “The film taps into a simultaneously bespoke and bothersome nihilism at the nexus of American violence, and it's surely among the more psychologically complex roles Bronson ever inhabited as the lead in a stateside production.” – Midwest Film Journal Feb 9, 2026 Full Review Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (2025) 83% 3.5/5 EDIT “Gore Verbinski is back with a freewheeling odyssey to save the world that delivers no-fear cavalier, renegade, steer-clear filmmaking to leave you feeling pretty psyched.” – Midwest Film Journal Feb 9, 2026 Full Review Fury (1936) 95% 4/5 EDIT “A searing story of retaliation with a less obvious approach. While the last scene is a clear concession, there’s something delicious about the way this Oscar-nominated story roots its third act in its hero's s own ignorance and unlikely redemption.” – Midwest Film Journal Feb 2, 2026 Full Review Libeled Lady (1936) 80% 2.5/5 EDIT “What might have once hit heights of hilarity now feels like a modest plateau, despite a lively pace. It just works itself into a fizz and then is left to sit out, with an ending that doesn’t even try to erase all the complications it creates” – Midwest Film Journal Feb 2, 2026 Full Review Northwest Passage (1940) 78% 2/5 EDIT “Acknowledging it can be a fill-in-the-blank complaint for Hollywood films of its era like "Northwest Passage" to cite technical aptitude but a boring pace and rampant racism, well … so it goes.” – Midwest Film Journal Feb 2, 2026 Full Review Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) 97% 4.5/5 EDIT “A masterclass of thematic and narrative tension. But it's also one of Spencer Tracy's most recognizably human roles — a broken man strangely reinvigorated by a chance to win against mankind's rot at a scale smaller than the war he was powerless to stop.” – Midwest Film Journal Feb 2, 2026 Full Review Rounders (1998) 63% 2.5/5 EDIT “It is certifiably insane for "Rounders" to anchor its narrative with two generational talents in the lead and then trample over their excellent efforts to convey context, or sometimes even just text, without incessant narration. ” – Midwest Film Journal Jan 28, 2026 Full Review Dante's Peak (1997) 34% 3.5/5 EDIT “The volcano’s eruption and its aftermath are the obvious draws here, excitingly realized through effects supervisor Patrick McClung’s measured combination of miniature photography and judicious CGI. ” – Midwest Film Journal Jan 27, 2026 Full Review Killers (2014) 71% 2.5/5 EDIT “A story of unheroic bloodshed, as it were, "Killers" aspires for profundity but just feels prolonged, a what-if / yes-and exercise in empty nihilism that’s slick but shallow.” – Midwest Film Journal Jan 27, 2026 Full Review A Private Life (2025) 81% 2.5/5 EDIT “It's not unlike if Nancy Meyers attempted to loosely remake "Caché." Despite a handful of entertaining moments, it simply lacks that certain je nai sais quoi.” – Midwest Film Journal Jan 27, 2026 Full Review Evil Under the Sun (1982) 86% 2.5/5 EDIT “Acknowledging Hercule Poirot's eccentricities are part of the equation, "Evil Under the Sun" spends entirely too long indulging them. Once it shifts from "The White Poirotus" to the actual mystery, the film improves.” – Midwest Film Journal Jan 26, 2026 Full Review Diva (1981) 97% 3/5 EDIT “The tension here is less between criminals and heroes than between the tactility of media and the transmutability of memory and perception. An always stylish and occasionally crackling thriller, it's also occasionally slow and disengaging.” – Midwest Film Journal Jan 26, 2026 Full Review The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) 87% 4/5 EDIT “Although the conclusion can't sustain the rhapsodic brilliance of its first hour, "The Testament of Ann Lee" remains a unique and impressive musical drama from the makers of "The Brutalist."” – Midwest Film Journal Jan 20, 2026 Full Review Iron Eagle (1986) 17% 2.5/5 EDIT “"Iron Eagle’s" greatest resemblance to "Top Gun" is that it is also deeply silly. Had it dispensed with dull drama and repetitively disappointing action beats, it may not have been so culturally grounded by comparison 40 years later.” – Midwest Film Journal Jan 16, 2026 Full Review The Rip (2026) 79% 3/5 EDIT “Apart from an adorable dog named Wilbur, there's nothing novel about "The Rip." But Ben Affleck and Matt Damon entertainingly enliven things with an entertaining dance around the depth & dedication of their real-world friendship.” – Midwest Film Journal Jan 16, 2026 Full Review Dead Man's Wire (2025) 91% 2/5 EDIT “This feels like a haphazard TV production, down to how its most cinematic instincts are clumsily edited around as if to whittle for primetime. There's little heat to this version of the iconic Indianapolis winter's tale.” – Midwest Film Journal Jan 13, 2026 Full Review Is This Thing On? (2025) 86% 3.5/5 EDIT “Despite a few iffy crutches and choices, Bradley Cooper's smaller-scale dramedy shows he can fill a small room with emotions as shrewdly as stadiums.” – Midwest Film Journal Jan 6, 2026 Full Review Disposable Humanity (2025) 4/5 EDIT “Cameron S. Mitchell's message of advocacy builds to a summary quote that uplifts the need to share stories, lessons and empathy and prevent any such darkness from again descending on the world in the destructive manner as it did 86 years ago.” – Midwest Film Journal Dec 26, 2025 Full Review Song Sung Blue (2025) 78% 1.5/5 EDIT “So bad! So bad! So bad!” – Midwest Film Journal Dec 22, 2025 Full Review Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) 66% 3.5/5 EDIT “While still far from James Cameron at his best, "Avatar: Fire and Ash" at least represents an infinitely more nimble and entertaining improvement on its immediate predecessor.” – Midwest Film Journal Dec 16, 2025 Full Review Lone Samurai (2025) 2/5 EDIT “Samurai films are full of tales of taciturn, towering cutting to the quick of inner peace as much as flesh and bone. But that requires a more charismatic presence than Shogen, and the action is far too sporadic.” – Midwest Film Journal Dec 12, 2025 Full Review
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