Nicolas Rapold

New York, United States

Culture Critic, Editor and Writer at Freelance

movies and more! @nytimes @sightsoundmag @ft @wmag @filmmakermag • host of The Last Thing I Saw podcast • contrib editor @screenslate • [email protected]

Articles

Kieran Culkin, Bob Odenkirk and Bill Burr spar in Glengarry Glen Ross — theatre review

2 weeks ago | ft.com | Nicolas Rapold

The latest revival of Glengarry Glen Ross has been packing the Palace Theatre, but David Mamet’s classic about a cut-throat Chicago...
George Clooney offers a warning from the past in Good Night, and Good Luck — theatre review

2 weeks ago | msn.com | Nicolas Rapold

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George Clooney offers a warning from the past in Good Night, and Good Luck — theatre review

2 weeks ago | msn.com | Nicolas Rapold

Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.
George Clooney offers a warning from the past in Good Night, and Good Luck — theatre review

2 weeks ago | ft.com | Nicolas Rapold

Chaotic times call for clear focus.
Coping at Her Own Speed

4 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Nicolas Rapold

A teenage regional tennis star moves on at her own pace after her ex-coach is dismissed under a cloud of suspicion. Julie Keeps QuietNYT Critic's Pick Directed by Leonardo Van Dijl DramaNot Rated1h 40mFind TicketsWhen you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. "Julie Keeps Quiet" ignores the usual movie playbook on post-trauma drama with its unusually internal portrait of a teenage tennis player, Julie.
"The Friend" Author Sigrid Nunez on the Film Starring Naomi Watts and Bill Murray

1 month ago | airmail.news | Nicolas Rapold |Sigrid Nunez

Sigrid Nunez’s books do not scream movie adaptation, with their journal-like first-person intimacy and homebody settings. In her 2018 National Book Award winner, The Friend, a writing professor takes care of her mentor’s dog after his death. In What Are You Going Through, from 2021, a writer accompanies an old friend who plans to kill herself. Each feels like a conversation with a smart, honest friend, her mind full of quotations, with a natural flow that one worries a movie could botch.
Naomi Ackie on Playing “Balls to the Wall” Nasha in ‘Mickey 17’

1 month ago | wmagazine.com | Nicolas Rapold

Naomi Ackie at the British Academy Film Awards, in London on February 16, 2025. Photo by Ian West/PA Images via Getty Images, treatment by Ashley PeñaIn the loopy future-world of Mickey 17, which opens March 7, Mickey (Robert Pattinson) is duplicated and reborn every time he gets killed on the job on a spaceship. But for Naomi Ackie—who plays Mickey’s shipmate-turned-lover-turned-heroine—the gig was a dream: “I just look back at that time and how I was on cloud nine the entire job,” she tells W.
On Falling review: shelf loathing

1 month ago | bfi.org.uk | Rachel Pronger |Leigh Singer |Nicolas Rapold |David Katz

I first watched On Falling, Laura Carreira’s quietly devastating study of late-stage capitalism in action, on Black Friday. That serendipitous timing is the kind of poetic flourish this careful filmmaker would never go for; but to encounter the film for the first time surrounded by algorithmically targeted banner ads and flickering digital billboards provided a sobering counterpoint.
True/False 2025

1 month ago | screenslate.com | Nicolas Rapold |Saffron Maeve

Our dispatch of the 2025 True/False Film Festival comes courtesy of Nicolas Rapold and Saffron Maeve, who sampled the festival’s diverse slate of documentaries and offered their thoughts regarding its highlights. Nicolas RapoldThis year, strangers at True/False kept asking whether it was my first time at the festival. I took that as a good sign—I didn't look jaded?—but in fact I'd gone several times.
Dreams (Sex Love) review: candid story of teen desire

1 month ago | bfi.org.uk | David KatzFestivals |David Katz |Nicolas Rapold |Jessica Kiang

A talented teenager causes a stir with a provocative memoir about her relationship with her teacher in Dag Johan Haugerud’s literary Golden Bear winner. 28 February 2025Reviewed from the 2025 Berlin International Film FestivalThere’s a certain harmony between contemporary Norwegian cinema and literature. Karl Ove Knausgård, one of the most influential writers of autofiction, hails from Norway, and has benefitted from its handsome grants for cultural production.