Mary Elizabeth Winstead gives a performance that is both fearless and nuanced...

| Oct 11, 2021

Always a likable actor, here Winstead is at a charismatic high, carrying a mediocre film, making it impossible to turn off through her star power alone.

| Oct 17, 2018

Mostly, Vives' work is a series of punch lines that feel more like gut punches - a relentless challenge that Winstead handles with seeming ease.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 12, 2018

Nina lays everything on the line, and in telling her story, Vives does too.

| Original Score: B+ | Oct 12, 2018

Everything hinges on Vives' direction, but it is Winstead who carries the entire movie. She is voracious in her humanity, but also extremely skillful in redressing her flaws into her routine.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 11, 2018

Nina's Bjork and her Kristen Stewart are pretty good - but her impression of Werner Herzog is fantastically weird. And simply fantastic.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 5, 2018

Despite a lively performance by Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Nina is a big bore with a small talent and a one-track mind.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Oct 1, 2018

Vives' filmmaking is confident, threading the needle on some emotionally complex scenes, but the film works because of Winstead's bravura performance, taking Nina to a place of raw, deep emotional honesty.

| Sep 28, 2018

A striking and at times uncomfortably personal feature debut from writer-director Eva Vives that makes good on its title by not shying away from the emotional damage that makes its protagonist so compelling.

| Sep 28, 2018

It's messy and raw and true.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 28, 2018

"An excellent entry in the romantic comedy format that doesn't lose sight of who its heroine is the moment she falls for someone."

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 28, 2018

The movie is carried by Winstead's mesmerizingly mercurial performance, and not just because she does pitch-perfect impressions of, among others, Kristen Stewart and Werner Herzog.

| Sep 27, 2018

Ms. Winstead is so good that she even shows you the movie that could have been, one without the clichés and therapy talk.

| Sep 27, 2018

Right out of the gate, the film only sees a kind of blunt irony in this blurring of her public and private selves.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 23, 2018

If you liked Ladybird, you'll love this far more adult and bitterly sarcastic feminist tale.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Apr 30, 2018

Balancing its darker moments with humor and warmth, the picture has a broad enough appeal to - finally, movie gods? - get Winstead onto the first-choice lists of top-tier filmmakers.

| Apr 25, 2018

Though the material isn't quite ready for prime time, Winstead once again proves herself a major player.

| Apr 23, 2018