Nobody Walks
Magnolia Pictures | Release Date: October 19, 2012 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
51
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Mixed or average reviews based on 18 Critic Reviews
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5
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11
Negative:
2
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
NPRIan BuckwalterOct 18, 2012
A film in which everyone is lusting after the wrong person, and consummating those desires tends to lead to awkward - but not funny, unlike Dunham's usual projects - disasters of various scales. Read full review
75
The PlaylistCory EverettOct 11, 2012
Full of humor and humanity, Nobody Walks is an emotionally complex, acutely observed and sensual film. Read full review
70
The New York TimesStephen HoldenOct 18, 2012
It would be tempting to dismiss Nobody Walks as a trivial erotic divertissement, even more so because it doesn't apply the kind of symbolic gloss found in a '60s film of serial seduction, like Pasolini's "Teorema." Banal as its situation may be, it picks at every scab you may have left over from wounds suffered during the mating games of your youth. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesBetsy SharkeyOct 18, 2012
If you allow yourself to drift with it, rather than get frustrated by all the non sequiturs, Nobody Walks becomes a more enjoyable film. Read full review
70
VarietyPeter DebrugeSep 29, 2012
Reminiscent of 2010 Sundance breakout "The Kids Are All Right," Ry Russo-Young's Nobody Walks captures the fallout of an open-minded Los Angeles family shaken up by the arrival of a sexy outsider, only this time, it's the outsider whose perspective takes precedence. Read full review
60
TimeRichard CorlissOct 18, 2012
The acting ensemble is crucial. Everyone's really fine. Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubNathan RabinOct 17, 2012
Nobody Walks is Mumblecore 2.0: The budget is bigger, the cast is littered with recognizable faces from popular television programs, and the production values are more impressive, but the fixation with the low-key, artsy angst of rudderless twenty- and thirtysomethings remains constant. Read full review
58
Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumOct 17, 2012
Russo-Young studies the strange species of affluent Angelenus erectus under a microscope that distorts every character into unbelievability. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertNov 7, 2012
Proves to be unsatisfactory because it establishes a well-defined group of characters and shows them disrupted by the careless behavior of a tiresome young woman and two adults who allow themselves to be motivated in one way or another by her infectious libido. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleWalter AddiegoOct 27, 2012
Don't fault Thirlby, who does as much as she can with the material. Krasinski is pretty good, and DeWitt and Ennenga are outstanding. The direction is decent, and the film is handsome. But it's finally frustrating, enigmatic in a way that suggests emptiness more than mystery. Read full review
50
Village VoiceChuck WilsonOct 17, 2012
Ultimately, the director and her cinematographer, Christopher Blauvelt (Meek's Cutoff), prove to be more interested in capturing the perfection of L.A.'s perpetual sunshine and the ways in which the people beneath it seem subtly oppressed, as if the light is expecting more of them than they can possibly deliver. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineJesse CataldoOct 15, 2012
The whole thing comes out feeling kind of featureless, beaten flat by its own sense of fairness. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam LaceyOct 11, 2012
A good-looking but anecdotally slight dramedy about life and lifestyles in Los Angeles's hip Silver Lake district. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeTy BurrOct 11, 2012
Sensitively written, nicely shot, expertly acted, and intelligently ambiguous, Nobody Walks still manages to send you out with a shrug. Read full review
40
New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierOct 18, 2012
It's a naive example of the transformative powers of a 23-year-old let loose amongst the dullards. Whoa. Read full review
40
Time OutR. Emmet SweeneyOct 16, 2012
For a film about sexual conquest, Nobody Walks is a frustratingly flaccid affair. Read full review
25
New York PostKyle SmithOct 19, 2012
None of Dunham's humor comes across, except when someone says, "And when you speak, your words are snakes I swat at with swords," which is hilarious, but not intentionally. Read full review
25
ObserverRex ReedOct 16, 2012
The actors are all completely wasted in this dumb travesty of fumbling, unfocused, oversexed numbskulls who work in the movie business. Everyone connected with Nobody Walks should have done just that-early and quickly. Read full review
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