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Nick Schager is an Entertainment Critic for The Daily Beast, covering everything great (and not-so-great) in the worlds of film, TV, music, and pop culture. A graduate of Johns Hopkins University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, his work has also appeared in Variety, Esquire, Entertainment Weekly, Rolling Stone, Vulture and dozens of other entertainment publications.Send him tips: tips@thedailybeast.com. You can also use our anonymous document submission system, SecureDrop. Click here to find out how.

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‘The Woman in the Yard’: Get Off My Lawn, Ghost Lady!

LET DOWN

The new thriller is less fun than mowing the lawn.

Nick Schager | Published Mar 28, 2025

Tom Hardy’s New Mob Drama Should Sleep with the Fishes

SNUFFED OUT

Try to find a cliché that “MobLand” doesn’t exploit.

Nick Schager | Published Mar 28, 2025

Michelle Williams Is Horny and Kinky—and Dying of Cancer

BUCKET LIST

Michelle Williams should clear her trophy shelf for an Emmy for the spectacular “Dying for Sex.”

Nick Schager | Published Mar 27, 2025

Paul Rudd Kills a Unicorn and Should Be Tried for His Crime

NO-TRICK PONY

In exasperating “Death of a Unicorn,” the magical horn increasingly comes to feel like a middle finger to the audience.

Nick Schager | Published Mar 27, 2025

Jason Statham Is a Perfect Murderous Vigilante in New Movie

NO-NONSENSE

Nobody does blue-collar bada**ery quite like Jason Statham.

Nick Schager | Published Mar 26, 2025

Prepare to Weep at This Movie Starring Naomi Watts and a Dog

KLEENEX ALERT

Let’s just say, don’t watch “The Friend” on an airplane.

Nick Schager | Published Mar 26, 2025

Seth Rogen Viciously Mocks Hollywood in Hilarious New Series

LA LA LAND

“The Studio” is one of the most satisfying and wall-to-wall funny showbiz satires in a very, very long time.

Nick Schager | Published Mar 25, 2025

The Sci-Fi Horror Film Moviegoers Have Been Waiting For

TRIPPY

The new movie “Ash” is a sci-fi horrorshow of hallucinatory evil. Heck yeah.

Nick Schager | Published Mar 24, 2025

‘Snow White’ Is Disney’s Biggest Live-Action Catastrophe Yet

BAD APPLE

Mirror, mirror on the wall, what’s the most disappointing remake of them all?

Nick Schager | Published Mar 19, 2025

Ellen Pompeo Breaks Bad in Wackadoo Natalia Grace TV Show

NO SCRUBS

The star’s first major role since stepping back from “Grey’s Anatomy” duties is this true-crime saga of the adopted girl with dwarfism who was really an adult posing as a child.

Nick Schager | Published Mar 19, 2025

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