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22 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80Village VoiceAlan ScherstuhlVillage VoiceAlan ScherstuhlKeener, as always, is excellent, a shrewd actor adept at revealing what her characters might not realize they’re revealing. Eventually, she must plumb the depths of grief, and the effect is something like watching a member of your actual family collapse and then pull herself together and keep pressing on.
- 75The Associated PressMark KennedyThe Associated PressMark KennedyNostalgia is not a perfect film but it is moving and sensitive. You leave with your head in the clouds and a new view of your precious stuff.
- 58The Film StageDan MeccaThe Film StageDan MeccaUltimately, the whole is not as great as the sum of some very effective scenes.
- 58The A.V. ClubA.A. DowdThe A.V. ClubA.A. DowdHamm gets to dig deeper than he has before on the big screen, tweaking some Draperian notes of aloofness into a credible emotional dimension, even when Nostalgia abandons its unsensational, slice-of-life-in-boxes approach for something closer to traditional tragedy.
- 50VarietyDennis HarveyVarietyDennis HarveyThough lent a degree of executional grace by helmer Mark Pellington, Nostalgia nonetheless emerges an inorganic experiment that might’ve seemed more at home developed for the stage or as a novella.
- 40The Hollywood ReporterStephen FarberThe Hollywood ReporterStephen FarberNo doubt everyone can relate to the central idea of wondering about the purpose of the mementos we leave behind or those we discover after a death in the family. But a promising theme does not necessarily make for a satisfying movie.
- 40Los Angeles TimesSheri LindenLos Angeles TimesSheri LindenThe actors can't turn the strained stabs at poetry into the affecting meditation that was clearly intended.
- 40The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisThe New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisA soggy string of Hallmark moments designed to interrogate the value of the objects we cherish, the movie is front-loaded with major stars and squelching with sentiment.
- 38Slant MagazineChuck BowenSlant MagazineChuck BowenMark Pellington's Nostalgia is less a living, breathing film than a presentation of sentiments revolving around a pat question: Are the objects of our lives merely detritus, or are they vital to our identities?
- 23TheWrapRay GreeneTheWrapRay GreeneHamm, an extraordinarily subtle actor whose quiet craft often gets overlooked, is perfectly cast for the tone Pellington wants to strike, and he’s able to emote convincingly in the narrow elegiac range in which Nostalgia tries to operate.