Critic Reviews
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Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel
If you've seen read or seen the Beatles history in literature or film, you'll adore Nowhere Boy for filling in more blank spaces about the early life that formed one of the seminal figures in rock history.
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Anthony Lane, New Yorker
Taylor-Wood has specialized in video installations and off-kilter portraits, and it was tempting to hope that her take on Lennon would unsettle and provoke. Instead, she stays resolutely on-kilter, as if awed into numbness by her subject.
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J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader
The events chronicled are all longstanding Beatles legends, though director Sam Taylor-Wood manages to stage even the most portentous moments without making you feel a celestial choir is in order.
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Tom Long, Detroit News
More love triangle than musical, the effective and often sweet Nowhere Boy offers a sense of the time and tension that produced John Lennon.
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Stephen Cole, Globe and Mail
This portrait of a Beatle as a young man also gives filmmaker Sam Taylor-Wood, working on a thoughtful script by Matt Greenhalgh, creative room to manoeuvre, introducing us to John just as he and rock 'n' roll discover one another.
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Cast
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Aaron Johnsonas John -
Kristin Scott Thomasas Mimi -
Thomas Sangsteras Paul
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David Morrisseyas Bobby -
Anne-Marie Duffas Julia -
David Threlfallas Uncle George
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