Nobody's Hero
Les Films du Losange | Release Date: June 16, 2023 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
50
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 9 Critic Reviews
Positive:
3
Mixed:
6
Negative:
0
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
Slant MagazinePat BrownFeb 21, 2022
The film goes from biting satire to broad farce and back as Alain Guiraudie fills it with both social observation and ludicrous incident. Read full review
75
The Film StageDavid KatzFeb 16, 2022
To twist the common literary-critical saying, Nobody’s Hero is indeed three characters in search of a story, but not an author, whose conviction in his ideas and unique method of shaping a film still marks him as un vrai original. Read full review
70
The New York TimesBeatrice LoayzaJun 15, 2023
Guiraudie is after something much different here: creating a palpable sense of the connection between fear and desire, which, sure, aren’t the most rational of our human impulses — but neither are love, marriage or jihadist crusading. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesMichael RechtshaffenJun 23, 2023
Any effort that manages to incorporate pointed observations about Islamophobia, casual xenophobia, female objectification and sexual hypocrisy, at the same time working in a loud make-out session in a cathedral confessional certainly can’t be accused of slacking, no matter how kooky or tedious things become. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterJordan MintzerFeb 16, 2022
The result is a somewhat uneasy mix of social critique and bizarre sex drama in which Guiraudie seems to be spitballing different ideas without making all of them stick. Read full review
50
IndieWireNicholas BarberFeb 16, 2022
It feels as if Guiraudie had two separate ideas for a contemporary urban comedy but couldn’t figure out how to develop either of them, so he stuck them in one script and hoped for the best. Read full review
50
VarietyGuy LodgeFeb 16, 2022
Moonlighting as a broad bedroom farce, this heavily plotted but oddly low-energy film winds up too distracted and diluted to score as a vital political satire. Read full review
40
Screen DailyWendy IdeFeb 16, 2022
It’s a bedroom farce with Jihadist jokes; a film which attempts to skewer the preconceptions harboured about its marginalised characters without allowing those characters the leeway to emerge from the margins as fully rounded individuals. Read full review
40
The GuardianPeter BradshawFeb 16, 2022
The film stands or falls by its claims to deadpan comedy – but this is heavy-handed and unsatisfying. Read full review
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