Gregory Nussen
@gregnussen.bsky.social
Lead Film Critic at Screen Rant. Formerly Deadline, Slant, Backstage, and In Review Online with bylines in Salon, Bright Lights Film, Knock-LA, elsewhere. Programming work with AFI FEST, SIFF, HollyShorts. Performance work at gregnussen.com They/them 🏳️⚧️
Avatar: Fire & Ash rehashes Way of Water, but better? Club-footed story, technically great, dialogue atrocious, politically the same de-colonial, anti-military stab. A technical triumph. Sigourney Weaver as 16 continues to be strange. It’s very fun and propulsive, but don’t expect more than that.
December 2, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Avatar: Fire & Ash rehashes Way of Water, but better? Club-footed story, technically great, dialogue atrocious, politically the same de-colonial, anti-military stab. A technical triumph. Sigourney Weaver as 16 continues to be strange. It’s very fun and propulsive, but don’t expect more than that.
Found The New Yorker at 100 to be nothing more substantial than a Bar-Mitzvah video. No doubt the magazine's influence and its editorial standards are high, just wish Netflix's documentary was a bit more avoidant of hagiography. My review for @screenrant.bsky.social : screenrant.com/the-new-york...
The New Yorker at 100 Review: Netflix's Celebration of the Magazine Is No More In Depth than a Birthday Tribute
Marshall Curry's documentary skirts any possibility of genuine assessment of the magazine's impact, opting instead for cushy King-making.
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December 2, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Found The New Yorker at 100 to be nothing more substantial than a Bar-Mitzvah video. No doubt the magazine's influence and its editorial standards are high, just wish Netflix's documentary was a bit more avoidant of hagiography. My review for @screenrant.bsky.social : screenrant.com/the-new-york...
Scandar Copti’s first film in 18 years is a really stunning patchwork portrait of an Arab family living within Israel’s increased militarization. My full review for @screenrant.bsky.social : screenrant.com/happy-holida...
Happy Holidays Review: One Palestinian Family's Inter-generational Struggle In Stunning, Intimate Detail
Scandar Copti's film uses non-professional actors and largely improvised dialogue to detail the lives of Arabs within Israel's militarized society.
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December 1, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Scandar Copti’s first film in 18 years is a really stunning patchwork portrait of an Arab family living within Israel’s increased militarization. My full review for @screenrant.bsky.social : screenrant.com/happy-holida...
Reflection in a Dead Diamond is a rare gem indeed from maximalist pastiche experts Forzani & Cattet, an investigation into the expanding impact of violence, moviemaking and James Bond. Also: torn flesh and gorgeous frames. My review for @screenrant.bsky.social : screenrant.com/reflection-i...
Reflection in a Dead Diamond Review: James Bond-like Eurospy Genre Pastiche is the Rarest of Gems
The 60s-style of Bruno Forzani & Hélène Cattet's fourth collaboration provides infinitely pleasurable images and homages to delight all the senses.
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December 1, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Reflection in a Dead Diamond is a rare gem indeed from maximalist pastiche experts Forzani & Cattet, an investigation into the expanding impact of violence, moviemaking and James Bond. Also: torn flesh and gorgeous frames. My review for @screenrant.bsky.social : screenrant.com/reflection-i...
Tamara Kotevska’s “The Tale of Silyan” finds the Macedonian documentarian working in similar fashion to “Honeyland,” exploring how agricultural tradition clashes with capitalist greed and global warming. My full review, for @screenrant.bsky.social : screenrant.com/the-tale-of-...
The Tale of Silyan Review: Ethereal Macedonian Documentary Details Struggle Against Capitalism, Climate Change
Oscar-nominated documentarian Tamara Kotevska re-imagines an old fable as an honest assessment of the threats against traditional agriculture.
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November 25, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Tamara Kotevska’s “The Tale of Silyan” finds the Macedonian documentarian working in similar fashion to “Honeyland,” exploring how agricultural tradition clashes with capitalist greed and global warming. My full review, for @screenrant.bsky.social : screenrant.com/the-tale-of-...
First review of Turkey Week is up, and if you’re a fan of James Nunn’s other no-nonsense, fast and heavy action like his previous One Shot films, you’ll be Thankful for Kate Beckinsale in Wildcat (see what I did there?) Full review for @screenrant.bsky.social : screenrant.com/wildcat-movi...
Wildcat Review: Kate Beckinsale Coolly Takes Down East London's Criminal Underground
One Shot's James Nunn recovers from a sputtery set-up to deliver a crackling, expertly choreographed action film
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November 24, 2025 at 5:19 PM
First review of Turkey Week is up, and if you’re a fan of James Nunn’s other no-nonsense, fast and heavy action like his previous One Shot films, you’ll be Thankful for Kate Beckinsale in Wildcat (see what I did there?) Full review for @screenrant.bsky.social : screenrant.com/wildcat-movi...
Bunch of exciting review up on @screenrant.bsky.social today, including Wicked: For Good, Chris Hemsworth's documentary on his father, Sisu: Road to Revenge - plus a handful of others, including some re-ups on Rental Family and Train Dreams. Read our weekly roundup! screenrant.com/screenrant-r...
November 21, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Bunch of exciting review up on @screenrant.bsky.social today, including Wicked: For Good, Chris Hemsworth's documentary on his father, Sisu: Road to Revenge - plus a handful of others, including some re-ups on Rental Family and Train Dreams. Read our weekly roundup! screenrant.com/screenrant-r...
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Tell Congress: Recognize and Punish Israel's Genocide in Gaza
Ask your Representative to co-sponsor the new resolution that would formally recognize Israel's genocide in Gaza and push the US to fulfill its legal duty to prevent and punish genocide.
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November 19, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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Cactus Pears opens tomorrow and the Indian romance is a ravishingly shot, tender queer romance with truly elegant metonymic images. A stunning feature debut from Rohan Kanawade. My full review for @screenrant.bsky.social : screenrant.com/cactus-pears...
Cactus Pears Review: Indian Romance Portrays the Juice of Queer Love In the Midst of Grief
Rohan Kanawade's feature debut, which premiered at Sundance in 2025, is brimming with a melancholic optimism.
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November 20, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Cactus Pears opens tomorrow and the Indian romance is a ravishingly shot, tender queer romance with truly elegant metonymic images. A stunning feature debut from Rohan Kanawade. My full review for @screenrant.bsky.social : screenrant.com/cactus-pears...
Sisu 2 is a big improvement on the first partly because it actually dispenses with even the little plot that was in the first for a pure expression of adrenaline. My full review for @screenrant.bsky.social : screenrant.com/sisu-road-to...
Sisu: Road to Revenge - Review: Less Plot, More Apocalypse
The sequel to the Finnish World War II-set action film ironically benefits from resorting purely to its basest instincts.
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November 19, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Sisu 2 is a big improvement on the first partly because it actually dispenses with even the little plot that was in the first for a pure expression of adrenaline. My full review for @screenrant.bsky.social : screenrant.com/sisu-road-to...
“Altered is” incredibly derivative, AI-slop-like sci-fi from the same guy who brought you “Iron Sky,” a trilogy about Nazis in Space, which is, if you can believe it, not a satire. My full review of the Tom Felton-led VOD drivel, for @screenrant.bsky.social : screenrant.com/altered-movi...
Altered Review: Tom Felton's Catch-All Science Fiction Thriller is Genetically Inoperable
Directed by the guy that brought you Nazis in space is this slop rich with sci-fi tropes and unclear allegory.
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November 19, 2025 at 5:10 PM
“Altered is” incredibly derivative, AI-slop-like sci-fi from the same guy who brought you “Iron Sky,” a trilogy about Nazis in Space, which is, if you can believe it, not a satire. My full review of the Tom Felton-led VOD drivel, for @screenrant.bsky.social : screenrant.com/altered-movi...
One of the all time great anime films gets a 4K re-release this weekend, do yourself a favor and get lost in Mamoru Oshii’s gorgeously bleak blend of Maya Deren and Andrei Tarkovsky in animated form. Full review for @screenrant.bsky.social : screenrant.com/angels-egg-m...
Angels' Egg in 4K Anniversary Review: Mamoru Oshii's Post-Apocalyptic Anime Reflects A Broken, Yet Persistent Humanity
The 1985 film's stirring imagery gains new life in 4K, and is as prescient as ever.
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November 18, 2025 at 4:21 PM
One of the all time great anime films gets a 4K re-release this weekend, do yourself a favor and get lost in Mamoru Oshii’s gorgeously bleak blend of Maya Deren and Andrei Tarkovsky in animated form. Full review for @screenrant.bsky.social : screenrant.com/angels-egg-m...
Charlie Shackleton’s oddball doc Zodiac Killer Project is immensely watchable and a provocative meditation on our collective obsession with true crime. My full review for @screenrant.bsky.social
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Zodiac Killer Project Review: Charlie Shackleton Re-Opens Zodiac One More Time in Subversive Fashion
The British filmmaker rescues his own film from the cutitng room floor by interrogating what it is about the genre we are perpetually drawn towards.
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November 18, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Charlie Shackleton’s oddball doc Zodiac Killer Project is immensely watchable and a provocative meditation on our collective obsession with true crime. My full review for @screenrant.bsky.social
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Being Eddie is really bad. Just reads as PR for a brand. Nearly nothing is examined in reality. Wikipedia stuff masquerading as prestige documentarian work.
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Being Eddie Review: Sycophantic Portrait Of Eddie Murphy Is Too Self-Congratulatory To Be Interesting
The film contains a central contradiction about Murphy's inability to open up, which makes this doc an exercise in King-making.
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November 12, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Being Eddie is really bad. Just reads as PR for a brand. Nearly nothing is examined in reality. Wikipedia stuff masquerading as prestige documentarian work.
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“Nathan's film is intriguing and frequently unsettling, with an especially magnetic denouement, but it doesn't stand on its own two feet without the pre-knowledge of its source material.“
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The Carpenter's Son Review: Nicolas Cage Distracts In An Underwhelming Biblical Horror Despite A Solid Effort From Noah Jupe
Nicolas Cage and FKA twigs are especially out of place in this mostly boring allegorical horror of Jesus before Crucifixion
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November 12, 2025 at 5:16 PM
“Nathan's film is intriguing and frequently unsettling, with an especially magnetic denouement, but it doesn't stand on its own two feet without the pre-knowledge of its source material.“
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“The film makes a cynical suggestion about how bored men will do anything to break their doldrums, including waging war with psychopathic fugitives they've just met. But nearly everything Ritchson and James do in the name of comedy is forced.”
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Playdate Review: You Can Turn Down The Invitation To Hang Out With This Abysmal Kevin James Comedy
There is almost nothing redeemable about this Kevin James and Alan Ritchson action, with dated jokes and inconceivable scenarios
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November 12, 2025 at 5:14 PM
“The film makes a cynical suggestion about how bored men will do anything to break their doldrums, including waging war with psychopathic fugitives they've just met. But nearly everything Ritchson and James do in the name of comedy is forced.”
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“a film designed in a lab to make you pat yourself on the back as you munch on your popcorn.”
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Now You See Me: Now You Don't Review - Absurd Third Sequel Is Nothing But An Illusion Of Entertainment
Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson et al return to join Dominic Sessa and others in a convoluted trick of hollow nostalgia.
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November 12, 2025 at 2:10 AM
“a film designed in a lab to make you pat yourself on the back as you munch on your popcorn.”
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Beautiful when allowing Andrea and Megan to speak for themselves. What a loss of a human.
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Come See Me In The Good Light Review: Andrea Gibson's Death Is Reframed As A Stunning Invitation To Live
Ryan White's documentary intimately invites us into the queer poet's stunning relationship with writer Megan Falley.
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November 10, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Beautiful when allowing Andrea and Megan to speak for themselves. What a loss of a human.
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“Through a series of cell phones, there is a subtle subversion of the inurement of too many images. The more we see the more desensitized we become to the severing of limbs, the destruction of hospitals, the blockade of food and basic goods” @screenrant.bsky.social
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Put Your Soul On Your Hand And Walk Review: A Raw, Devastating Video Diary of Life In Wartime
Sepideh Farsi's curation of video calls with a Palestinian journalist is as devastating as it is life-affirming.
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November 10, 2025 at 9:04 PM
“Through a series of cell phones, there is a subtle subversion of the inurement of too many images. The more we see the more desensitized we become to the severing of limbs, the destruction of hospitals, the blockade of food and basic goods” @screenrant.bsky.social
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Ira Sachs’ recreation of a seemingly innocuous transcript is the height of cinematic poetry. My review of Peter Hujar’s Day, for @screenrant.bsky.social : screenrant.com/peter-hujars...
Peter Hujar's Day Review: A Portrait of Rare Intimacy in One of the Year's Best Acted Films
Ira Sachs' uncommon film with Ben Whishaw and Rebecca Hall makes a common day feel magical and extraordinary.
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November 6, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Ira Sachs’ recreation of a seemingly innocuous transcript is the height of cinematic poetry. My review of Peter Hujar’s Day, for @screenrant.bsky.social : screenrant.com/peter-hujars...
Really adored Tommy Dorfman’s I Wish You All the Best, quiet subversion of coming-of-age films which gets so much right about transness and queer identity more generally. Full review for @screenrant.bsky.social
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I Wish You All The Best Review: Trans Coming-Of-Age Drama Beautifully Captures Queerness In All Its Specificity
The film's more rote moments are easily washed over by its keenly observed understanding of the trans experience.
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November 6, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Really adored Tommy Dorfman’s I Wish You All the Best, quiet subversion of coming-of-age films which gets so much right about transness and queer identity more generally. Full review for @screenrant.bsky.social
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“Everything in the film is presented as a natural extension of Amélie's desire, confusion, joy, sadness, and ballooning understanding of the world around her.” Little Amélie, the year’s best animated film. Full review for @screenrant.bsky.social : screenrant.com/little-ameli...
Little Amélie Or The Character Of Rain Review: A Wondrous Coming-Of-Age Tale That Transcends Space & Time
The Belgian-Japanese animated film borrows from a bevy of influences to suggest our differences are false perceptions.
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November 4, 2025 at 10:26 PM
“Everything in the film is presented as a natural extension of Amélie's desire, confusion, joy, sadness, and ballooning understanding of the world around her.” Little Amélie, the year’s best animated film. Full review for @screenrant.bsky.social : screenrant.com/little-ameli...
I found Predator: Badlands to be a galvanizing time at the theater with enough propulsive action in it to paper over what is, ultimately, a pretty hollow husk. Just kind of empty underneath the noise. Full review of this mixed bag, for @screenrant.bsky.social : screenrant.com/predator-bad...
Predator: Badlands Review - Dan Trachtenberg's Propulsive Action Sequel Hides A Lack Of Depth
Dan Trachtenberg's third Predator entry is exciting, but also tonally askew in ways that prevent it from hitting its stride.
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November 4, 2025 at 6:00 PM
I found Predator: Badlands to be a galvanizing time at the theater with enough propulsive action in it to paper over what is, ultimately, a pretty hollow husk. Just kind of empty underneath the noise. Full review of this mixed bag, for @screenrant.bsky.social : screenrant.com/predator-bad...
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November 2, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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