Setting a cracking pace, Nowhere Boy is a joyful journey into the power of personality, the finding of friends and the start of an amazing life, and to top it off, is one of the best films of the year to boot.
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12/23/09
Nowhere Boy (2009)
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Reviews Counted:24
Fresh:21
Rotten:3
Average Rating:7.1/10
Genre: Dramas
Reviews for Nowhere Boy
It is with fascination, curiosity and almost as voyeurs that we engage with the young, enigmatic Lennon as he battles against the odds, the establishment and himself in a bid to find his own direction.
12/18/09
What differentiates this story is how it dovetails into the life of John Lennon that begins as this film ends.
12/18/09
Taylor-Wood and screenwriter Matt Greenhalgh mostly play it safe, offering an accessible period piece, free of nostalgia and full of key and credible emotional flashpoints.
12/18/09
Hardly a cold turkey, but not a (Number 9) Dream of a biopic either.
12/18/09
While Nowhere Boy is not the most daring or experimental piece of work you’ll see, it is warm, involving and very human.
12/18/09
A handsome film made with real flair.
12/18/09
It's a confident debut to be appreciated by cineastes, laymen and Lennonites alike.
12/18/09
No surprises in this account of the troubled pre-Beatles adolescence of John Lennon, but sharp scripting and a pair of outstanding performances lift it out of routine biopic territory.
12/18/09
Nowhere Boy delivers a definitive account of Lennon’s pain-wracked adolescence.
12/18/09
Nowhere Boy does offer insights into what made The Beatles great, and it’s an unpretentious, well-paced first feature.
12/18/09
While revealing almost nothing new about Lennon, and sticking rigidly to biopic conventions, it's just about worth catching thanks to Scott Thomas, who's spot-on as the arch but affectionate guardian.
12/18/09
The late teenage years of John Lennon, put through the biopic wringer by screenwriter Matt Greenhalgh, come out as flat and lifeless as yesterday’s “We Love the Beatles” T-shirt.
12/18/09
This study of a boy damaged by loss yet determined to honour his talent strikes a mighty chord, and marks a hugely promising feature debut.
12/18/09
Kristin Scott-Thomas and Anne-Marie Duff are both brilliant and Aaron Johnson convincingly captures the sarcasm and raw emotions of Lennon in a film that is both hugely enjoyable and moving.
12/18/09
Nowhere Boy is a hugely enjoyable, emotionally engaging and superbly acted biopic that marks Sam Taylor-Wood out as a director to watch.
12/18/09
This beautifully written and directed biopic has a strong ring of truth to it, mainly due to Taylor-Wood's artistic approach to filmmaking. It also features extremely complex characters and a remarkably vivid collection of events.
12/18/09
If this turgid biopic of the young John Lennon was a musical instrument, it would be an untuned, one-string guitar.
12/17/09
Taylor-Wood, known predominantly as a photographer and video artist, has made a loving, intimate rendering of a snippet of a life.
12/16/09
The power of these two relationships on John Lennon is beautifully depicted, as is the connection between the young Paul McCartney and Lennon. It’s almost as if the film is bringing to visual life Lennon’s lyrics, ‘Mother, you had me, but I never had you.
12/15/09
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