Albert Nobbs

Albert Nobbs (2011)

  • 55% of critics liked it
    (142 reviews)

  • 49% of users liked it
    (7,075 ratings)

Five-time Academy Award nominee Glenn Close stars in this emotional and thought-provoking tale of a woman forced to live as a man in 19th Century Ireland. After thirty years of keeping up the charade, a new love threatens to destroy everything she's worked so hard to build.. -- (C) Roadside… More

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R, 1 hr. 53 min.
Directed By
Rodrigo García
Written By
Glenn Close, John Banville
Genres
Drama
In Theaters
Jan 27, 2012 Limited
On DVD
May 15, 2012
Roadside Attractions

Critic Reviews

  • Kate Taylor, Globe and Mail

    The film surrounding the performance is not always as strong, but the centre holds, and magnificently so.

  • Linda Barnard, Toronto Star

    Albert is at the heart of it all and we see her through her own prism of vulnerability, resulting in a very human story about the search for love, acceptance and understanding of the self.

  • Dana Stevens, Slate

    A movie that, like its title character, never quite dares to let itself discover what it really wants to be.

  • Anthony Lane, New Yorker

    What you feel, watching Close, is not that you are watching gender being bent into new, absorbing shapes but that you might as well have stayed home and leafed through a book on Magritte.

  • Tom Long, Detroit News

    "Albert Nobbs" is a film of great texture and tenderness, and the actors are a joy to behold.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Tracy K


    Hey there, Glenn Close, I see what you're doing there. I'm just not sure it always works, is all. This is an often touching, often quite sad story about the way the those who do not conform to the demands of their societies function - or not - within the structures of said… More

  • William D


    Glenn Close and Janet McTeer deserved the Oscar nominations they received for their work in 'Albert Nobbs.' They are amazing. They play women living as men. Glenn Close especially blew me away with her ability to transform herself physically. But more than that, she was able… More

  • Carlos M


    Glenn Close delivers a very solid performance, but this weak drama does not seem to know exactly what it wants to say. The irregular story wanders without a clear direction, giving in to a lot of expository dialogue and ending in an anticlimactic conclusion.

  • danny d


    "nobbs" is an unfortunate last name for a man trying to hide the fact that he really is a woman. the film was somewhat interesting, and i always love gleeson on film, but i never really believed that anything redeeming would come of the story. the acting was solid but not… More

  • Everett J


    "Albert Nobbs" is a quiet movie about living life as a lie. Glenn Close gives an award worthy performance as Albert Nobbs. Nobbs is a woman who lives life as a man to support herself in 19th Century Ireland. She wants to live life freely, but she has to keep up the… More

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