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Amy Nicholson

Amy Nicholson was chief film critic at LA Weekly from 2013 to 2016. Her first book, Tom Cruise: Anatomy of an Actor, was published in 2014.

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These Improbable Beasts (and the Rock) Deserve a Wilder Film Than Rampage

By Amy Nicholson
Apr 13, 2018

... This is a movie where everyone in Johnson's radius accuses his character of hating humanity, when the actor himself can't help ingratiating himself to everything ...
An Older, Wiser Michael Moore Invades Europe

By Amy Nicholson
Feb 9, 2016

“I've turned into this kind of crazy optimist,” Michael Moore admits in his new documentary Where to Invade Next, his first film in six years. At 61, the gadfly savant has mellowed. Instead of charging into rooms, he shuffles, the American flag wrapped around his shoulders like a grandmother's shawl...
The 10 Sundance Movies to Watch for in 2016

By Amy Nicholson
Feb 3, 2016

The biggest story at this year's Sundance Film Festival was the record-breaking bidding war for The Birth of a Nation, a prestige biopic about rebellious slave Nat Turner. When Fox Searchlight snatched it for $17.5 million — $5 million more than any other flick in the festival’s history — their...
Michael Moore Celebrates Being in a Political Majority — and the White-Dude Minority

By Amy Nicholson
Feb 2, 2016

Three years ago, Michael Moore wrapped up a TV interview about the Sandy Hook massacre and asked the producers to leave him alone. “You guys call me every time there's a school shooting,” he sighed. He had, after all, made Bowling for Columbine, which blasted the NRA and the nightly...
13 Hours Trades Truth for Explosions, but It's Not Truly Political

By Amy Nicholson
Jan 15, 2016

Benghazi is a hashtag battle cry, a call to arms that many Americans don't understand. Unlike the simplicity of "Remember the Alamo!" a bleat of "Benghazi!" still has people wondering, "Wait, what happened? And why are we mad?" Michael Bay's 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi has an explanation,...

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