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Nicholas Nickleby
2004
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Nicholas Nickleby
Positive Reviews
60
Negative reviews
3
Average Rating
3.7
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2.0
Nicholas Nickleby, the positively brisk, sparkling new adaptation by Douglas McGrath, takes quite another route: At a little over two hours, this is a ..
EW
4.4
The movie is jolly and exciting and brimming with life, and wonderfully well acted.
Rogerebert
4.0
Every detail is beautifully realized, with one of the best ensemble performances of the year.
Common Sense Media
4.5
Pic separates itself out by hitting the humor as hard as the pathos, finding a nice contrast between the caricatures of the supporting roles and the d ..
Variety
3.8
Douglas McGraths latest may lack the lyricism of David Leans Oliver Twist and Great Expectations but Nicholas Nickleby may just be the funniest Dicken ..
4.0
Hunnam makes a strikingly handsome, if slightly bland Nicholas while Bell gives Smike a genuinely touching pathos.
Screen Daily
3.5
If the movie ever slowed down to consider its many narrative coincidences and archetypal conveniences, it might find itself stalled by its conventiona ..
3.8
Instead, the impression is one of abundance: Its a generous tale, told through big performances by a talented cast, presenting a range of colorful cha ..
San Francisco Chronicle
3.0
That length of running time is a little too long even for the most devoted Dickens moviegoer, so what McGrath has delivered is akin to a film adaptati ..
5.0
Thanks to his high regard for the dramatic energies and the moral velocities of Nicholas Nickleby, McGrath has given us a marvelously entertaining ver ..
Spirituality And Practice
3.0
May be Dickens Lite, but taken on its own slick, genteel terms its a surprisingly winning confection...a film of wit and style.
One Guys Opinion
2.5
The film is less morose than the book, but it also is less everything that was worthy about the book that really mattered.
Sover
3.8
Unsentimental, non glamorized, and unclouded by the usual overlay of rose colored nostalgia, this is a raw but rewarding motion picture.
ReelViews
4.4
The film presents us with a wonderful world filled with delightful and haunting characters and a nicely woven story.
Mark Reviews Movies
2.0
While Hunnam isnt a strong lead, the delights of Nicholas lie in its (mostly) exceptional supporting ensemble.
3.8
Nickleby hasnt tarnished with time By Claudia Puig, USA TODAY Charles Dickens is a novelist whose works lend themselves nicely to film translations.
Usa Today
3.0
The film tries to put a happy face on what is a sad story in many ways and it doesnt really pan out.
Lariat
3.0
So we will acquaint the reader with the gist of the story as it is presented in McGraths very lovely movie.
Eric Ds Nider
5.0
McGrath necessarily eliminates whole plot threads and many characters, but what remains bustles with vivid Dickensian life.
News Review
4.0
With solid performances, terrific writing and just the right combination of humor, darkness and uplifting material, this is one of the more entertaini ..
Screen It
3.1
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News Day
3.8
In other ways its a lovely film for the holiday season, reminding us that the tried and true approach to Dickens still works better than tricked up ve ..
Cs Monitor
4.0
Dickens heroes can often seem mere heroic ciphers who merely react to the more colorful eccentrics who surround them, but the cannily cast Hunnam capt ..
Film Journal International ..
4.4
Wow, so who knew Charles Dickens could be so light hearted.That shouldnt be taken as an indication that the latest cinematic version of Nicholas Nickl ..
Deseret News (Salt Lake Ci ..
3.8
Extremely well cast, especially in the large number of supporting roles.
Internet Reviews
3.8
The title character is too goody two shoes to give Charlie Hunnam a breakthrough but a pair of villains eat up the scenery in delightful holiday fare.
Internet Reviews
4.0
The film is most definitely worth your time.Unfortunately, its been so badly promoted that its apt to escape a lot of peoples notice.
Mountain X
4.5
McGrath keeps the entire production on the right side of that fine line, giving us heroes and villains who are, in the end, decidedly human, making us ..
3.0
A look at the long day in the busy life of a Toronto councillor In the face of a surprise cut to the number of wards and councillors proposed by the p ..
Toronto Star
4.0
Humorous and heartfelt, Douglas McGraths version of Nicholas Nickleby left me feeling refreshed and hopeful. Not many movies have that kind of impact ..
Reel Talk Reviews
4.4
A lot of the beats are a bit too familiar from previous entries in the series, which isnt surprising given that this is the fifth film to play off the ..
Q Network
4.0
Nicholas Nickleby is an absolutely entertaining, well acted, and well directed film adaptation.
Cinema Crazed
5.0
Weakness is tiring, but strength is exhausting, is one of the classic gems.
5.0
It is a challenge writer director Douglas McGrath is very largely up to in Nicholas Nickleby.
Time
2.5
Marshall stages the narrative scenes in a fairly pedestrian manner and pulls out all the glitzy stops for the musical ones, reflecting the new for the ..
Mr Brown Movies
3.0
Like the Dickens novel on which its based, director Douglas McGraths Nicholas Nickleby overcomes the earnest blandness of its eponymous hero with wond ..
Calendar Live
3.8
If the story is a comedy he will succeed and we will proceedto the denouement in which loose ends are tied up a happy couple weds and the cast takes i ..
Hollywood
3.0
Its scant humor is dry as the Sahara and, like all Dickens stories, its upbeat ending is never quite convincing enough to offset the horrors of the jo ..
Seattle Pi
4.0
Yet its dramatic weight is powerful.Above all other pleasures it offers, it provides a classic of literature and social criticism with a straight run ..
Standard
3.8
Its thin, and McGrath wouldnt know subtlety if it bit him on the butt. Still, its entertaining enough, and the two plus hours the film runs fly by.
Movie Freak
2.5
And everything else a Dickens story needs to reach an inevitably allegorical finale falls obligingly into place with faithful precision but without mu ..
Spliced Wire
3.8
Casting charismatic and hammy actors makes the on screen chemistry spark into life.
Movie Habit
4.5
makes Nickleby a potentially musty story vibrant, funny and accessible without betraying the spirit of the original.
Oregon Live
3.5
Like Dickens with his passages, McGrath crafts quite moving scenes throughout his resolutely dramatic variation on the novel.
Boxoffice Magazine
3.0
Funny, poignant and ultimately uplifting, Douglas McGraths faithful adaptation of Dickens classic boy to man tale is the sort of flick that leaves aud ..
E Online
4.5
the perfect resource for students whove balked at the books brick like dimensions but who have an exam on it the next day, and need a quick overview
Film Ink
2.5
His beguiling male beauty and over trusting charm affords the picture what claim it may have on attracting an audience of non Dickensians.
Varia Gate
5.0
With an open face and what one character aptly terms a smile like a sugar drop, hes the perfect romantic hero to Anne Hathaways romantic heroine.
Killer Movie Reviews
3.0
This is a film tailor made for those who when they were in high school would choose the Cliff Notes over reading a full length classic.
Dennis Schwartz Reviews
3.0
The cheerily cherubic Cheerybles (Timothy Spall and Gerard Horan) complete Dickenss morality tale portrait of human nature, with Nicholass heroism, in ..
Decent Films
3.0
The entire movie has a truncated feeling, but whats available is lovely and lovable.
Guide Live
3.5
...the poor are ennobled and the rich are demonized. Its only as it should be.
Movie Metropolis
2.5
We split on this one. Its either delightful or terribly overacted you decide.
TheMovieChicks.com
4.5
Directed at a sprightly yet smooth pace, adaptation packs an astounding amount of complications into just over two hours with deft efficiency.
Stream On Demand At Home
4.4
How utterly charming!.Most Dickens fans will be curious if a two and a quarter hour condensation of a 900 plus page book can work.
Nitrate Online
3.8
Its a moment of glorious silliness and, like most of Nicholas Nickleby, its irresistible.
Seattle Times
2.0
Dozens of characters deserve more exploration, so most of the cast is given very little to do, and scant few minutes to do it in.
Eclipse Magazine
4.0
A Dickens classic is brought to the screen in a reduced but still rewarding film adaptation.
Net Flix
3.8
Director/writer Douglas McGrath (Emma) pares the long novel down to a screenplay just over two hours long while keeping it interesting and faithful to ..
Fantastic A Daily
3.8
McGraths version of Nicholas Nickleby cashes in on age old show biz wisdom of always leave em wanting more.
Chicago Tribune
3.1
One of those studious adaptations that seem tailor made for showing to high school English classes.
Suburban Chicago News
4.5
Paring a Dickens novel that once ran 9 1/2 hours onstage to a 109 minute film must have been quite a challenge, but writer/director Douglas McGrath do ..
San Diego Metropolitan
3.8
A terrific adaptation with a delightful cast and a speedy pace that defies belief, considering its lengthy source.
Miami Herald
4.4
The cast is a marvelous match for the characters, and the pared down script preserves plenty of the luscious melodrama that makes Dickens so addictive ..
3.0
McGrath knows how the right cast can restore lustre to a literary classic thats had a rough journey to the screen.
eye WEEKLY
3.5
I was sorry when I learned that Michaels, the well known childrens hair cutting salon at Madison Avenue and 90th Street, went out of business recently ..
Ny Observer
2.5
Whenever you think youve seen the end of the movie, we cut to a new scene, which also appears to be the end. But, no, we get another scene, and then a ..
Arizona Daily Star
3.0
Expansive and intimate, detailed yet microcosmic, Douglas McGraths Nicholas Nickleby is a dazzling distillation of Charles Dickens classic, sprawling ..
Journal News (Westchester, ..
3.0
Its just sort of there, one more adaptation of a long rambling Charles Dickens soap opera well stocked with respected British actors playing painfully ..
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