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Nancy

2018

Christina Choe

Andrea Riseborough, J. Smith-Cameron, Steve Buscemi, John Leguizamo ...

5.9

289

Drama Blurring lines between fact and fiction, Nancy becomes increasingly convinced she was kidnapped as a child. When she meets a couple whose daughter went missing thirty years ago, reasonable doubts give way to willful belief – and the power of emotion threatens to overcome all rationality.

	Media	Author	Review
		Jon Frosch The Hollywood Reporter	"A familiar-feeling downer with a few fine performances (...) The movie's refusal to ingratiate is admirable, even if you end up wondering whether it was worth all the doom and gloom."
		Amy Nicholson Variety	"The film is just too miserable to encourage the audience to offer up our empathy (...) 'Nancy‘s' restraint keeps the film closed-off and grim"
		Kate Erbland IndieWire	"[An] artfully crafted drama (...) The stories she tells might be fake, but the feeling behind them is real."
		Fionnuala Halligan Screendaily	"An intriguing if resolutely downbeat debut (...) An unpredictable story about a character you can never comfortably know."
		Nick Allen rogerebert.com	"Choe’s script deals greatly in sadness, but it’s just too cold to work fully on an emotional level (...) But 'Nancy' has an intellectual savviness to its sadness that works"
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Riseborough shines in engaging psychodrama (...) An interesting and worthwhile drama (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Jeannette Catsoulis The New York Times	"If you can look beyond the horrendous, wig-like thicket that clings to the head of the title character in 'Nancy', you might see something to admire in the movie’s uncompromising portrait of extreme misery"

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