Nickelodeon
Columbia Pictures Corporation | Release Date: December 21, 1976 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
52
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 9 Critic Reviews
Positive:
2
Mixed:
7
Negative:
0
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VarietyStaff (Not Credited)
Peter Bogdanovich's film is an okay comedy-drama about the early days of motion pictures. Story begins with a group of barnstorming filmmakers in the pre-feature film era, later segues to the adolescence of the industry. Read full review
50
Chicago ReaderDave Kehr
Bogdanovich is trying to do an interesting and commendable thing in dramatizing aesthetic passion; his failure is as noble as it is conspicuous. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
A curiously flat movie. It functions like clockwork and it looks right, but it doesn't feel like much. Read full review
50
The New York TimesRichard Eder
Nickelodeon is two hours and two minutes of impersonations.Some of them are very good impersonations—deft and funny—but they lack a life to string them together. Read full review
50
TV Guide MagazineStaff (Not Credited)
An attempt by director Bogdanovich to capture his great love of early movies in a full-length motion picture. Read full review
50
The New YorkerPauline Kael
It sounds promising, but Bogdanovich attempts an exercise in style, and the result is sustained clutter.
40
Time OutStaff (Not Credited)
The direction is agonisingly pedantic for a comedy, and leaves O'Neal and Reynolds totally exposed, mugging away in charmless and clumsy fashion. Read full review
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