This low-key romance is an anti-dote to the dating apps.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 18, 2024

Doesn’t learn any hard truths about the difference between people’s idea of love and the real presence of it.

| Original Score: C | Feb 19, 2024

This is an affecting romance and a work of compelling social commentary. That's a noteworthy achievement.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 31, 2024

The film knows that it is about the frictions that emerge when humanity is rendered through technology, but does not fully reach out to explore a spectrum of emotions. In short, this love story also plays it safe.

| Jan 19, 2024

For his first English-language film, Greek director and co-writer Christos Nikou goes to absurdist lengths examining the most basic of human quandaries: Is love really a thing?

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 12, 2024

Despite its original premise, Fingernails isn't able to fully decipher the mysteries of love that it attempts to explore. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 29, 2023

I thought the whole premise was so ridiculous... I thought it was silly.

| Nov 29, 2023

It's a really interesting concept that they explore in understated ways.

| Nov 29, 2023

FINGERNAILS does have something to say about modernity's continual perversion of the human experience and the need to dissect, categorise, and package it. Romance is far from dead, but FINGERNAILS takes a forlorn look at what might kill it.

| Nov 27, 2023

Fingernails has an intelligent central premise and is elevated by its leads who all share fantastic chemistry making their relationships believable. Ultimately some of its ideas feel half-baked.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 25, 2023

Although the premise is perhaps more interesting than the film's execution, Fingernails is nonetheless a bittersweet take on romance that succeeds on the strength of the chemistry between its two lead actors.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Nov 20, 2023

Despite a talented cast, there's no way of getting around viewing this superficial film as anything but trash.

| Original Score: D | Nov 19, 2023

The premise—that a new scientific test can definitively determine whether a couple is in love—is arguably more interesting than the narrative as a whole.

| Nov 18, 2023

It’s an exceptional cast, and they fill out the premise with subtle inflections and authentic desire -- the romantic wins out.

| Nov 18, 2023

I’m mixed-positive on Fingernails, but I’m absolutely recommending the film because of these terrific performers.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 17, 2023

Fingernails has an interesting concept that ultimately falls flat.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Nov 17, 2023

Charismatic and authentic performances aside, I kept waiting for Fingernails to just go for it, take the big swing, rush to the airport gates, and make the big speech, because surely that's better than waffling for this long.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Nov 17, 2023

Regrettably, the execution feels too slick and fabricated to convey authenticity, the romance comes across as feeble, and the emotions fail to reach the heart. Alas, I didn't buy a word of it.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 17, 2023

I think the main fault of this film is not much is explained. especially the technology that is supposed to measure compatibility... I did enjoy the acting but they needed to explain a lot more.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 15, 2023

Nikou’s sci-fi drama is more failed experiment than a fine, or redefining, romance.

| Nov 15, 2023