Nutcrackers
Hulu | Release Date (Streaming): November 29, 2024 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 14 Critic Reviews
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75
RogerEbert.comMatt Zoller SeitzNov 27, 2024
Stiller has become a deeper actor with age, and he's perfect here: you know he has a good soul, because this is a comedy, and not a dark one, but he keeps you guessing. Read full review
70
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriSep 6, 2024
It feels like both a summary and a homecoming for this strangest and most American of directors. Read full review
70
ColliderRoss BonaimeSep 6, 2024
Like the family at the center of the film, Nutcrackers is rough around the edges, but it's lovable in a shaggy way. Read full review
67
IndieWireKate ErblandSep 6, 2024
We know where this is going. That doesn’t dilute the emotional power of it, of a man seeing where his heart really is and what that means in practice. Read full review
60
Screen RantRachel LaBonteNov 21, 2024
With Stiller at the center, Nutcrackers is a solid, if not incredibly memorable, holiday effort. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneySep 6, 2024
Nutcrackers is not exactly robust as uplifting family comedies go, but for audiences willing to get in sync with Green’s free-flowing groove, the emotional payoff will be affecting. Read full review
55
Paste MagazineJim VorelNov 21, 2024
It’s directed and edited in totally competent fashion. But none of that justifies taking the time to watch an often tedious reworking of a story you’ve already seen so many times before. Read full review
50
The New York TimesAlissa WilkinsonNov 28, 2024
The film gets better whenever Stiller recedes into the background, but the movie’s insistence on Michael’s redemption story as the main narrative thread hurts it. It’s impossible to care too much about this pompous, uptight, strangely boring guy. Especially because we know how his story will end. Read full review
50
Original-CinLiam LaceyNov 27, 2024
With the one-off low-budget Nutcrackers, Green says he wants to pay tribute to the rough-edged adult-child comedies of his youth, films like The Bad News Bears and Uncle Buck. The result is a film that often feels, beat by beat, like you’ve seen it somewhere before. Read full review
50
VarietyPeter DebrugeSep 6, 2024
What the movie needs isn’t a shaggy Christmas pageant, but the kind of catharsis one might expect when four of its characters lost their mom and the fifth ought to be mourning his sister. Read full review
50
Screen DailyTim GriersonSep 6, 2024
Unfortunately, David Gordon Green’s wholesome throwback to rambunctious family films like The Bad News Bears strains to sell the openhearted spirit of this Christmas-themed lark. Read full review
42
The Film StageSoham GadreSep 12, 2024
Green throws his characters together: rather than giving them depth, they come across as ciphers for a predictable journey that hits all-too-familiar notes. If the director was looking for a return-to-roots comeback vehicle after his recent Hollywood horror journey, this is not it. Read full review
42
The PlaylistAnkit JhunjhunwalaSep 7, 2024
Any novelty in the film is provided by watching spirited kids being themselves, something Green does manage to capture. Read full review
40
The GuardianBenjamin LeeSep 6, 2024
The more accomplished the film-making becomes, the more we then expect the script to level up too. Read full review
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