The dueling tensions of the film are quite fascinating.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 24, 2022

In Nancy, director Christina Choe spins out her intriguing yarn with careful precision, keeping us guessing about Nancy and about whether she is the long-lost daughter.

| Oct 12, 2021

Kudos to Andrea Riseborough for her wonderfully ambiguous performance, which never lets us come to a definite conclusion about just how sorry for her we should feel.

| Oct 12, 2021

Christina Choe's plot and dialog create suspense regarding the authenticity of the much-wanted relationship, while her direction's deliberately protracted pace and dark mood create space for a brooding meditation on the meaning of family.

| Oct 12, 2021

This haunting story of identity and the longing for family has achingly real performances, especially J. Smith-Cameron and John Leguizamo. The snowy setting in the final scenes is beautifully filmed and very fitting.

| Oct 12, 2021

Christina Choe, the writer-director has crafted an emotional thriller of note.

| Oct 12, 2021

There's tension in Nancy, but it's not really a thriller or a mystery; it's a detailed, deliberate character study of a woman who seems to wish that she could be anyone other than who she is.

| Oct 12, 2021

These characters never progress beyond a thumbnail sketch as Choe tippy-toes around the sinkhole that is Nancy's arrival.

| Jun 2, 2020

Writer/director Christina Chow... explodes onto the scene as a filmmaker.

| Original Score: A | Jul 24, 2019

Quiet and haunting, Nancy is an intriguing first feature from a talented director

| Original Score: 8/10 | Mar 12, 2019

It was flat and dull.

| Original Score: C- | Feb 26, 2019

Nancy is a film about identity and the events in our lives that make us who we are. If you thought you loved Andrea Riseborough in Mandy, just wait.

| Feb 17, 2019

Riseborough, so appealing in Battle of the Sexes and amusingly histrionic in The Death of Stalin, is astonishing in the lead role.

| Feb 11, 2019

Narrative, performance and stylish production design marry jarringly yet brilliantly in this intelligent and unsettling think piece.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 7, 2019

The film proves a beautifully composed character piece refusing to languish in hopeless melancholy for added drama to see what can be accomplished by simple and honest grace.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jan 9, 2019

... leaves the protagonist's motives and beliefs ambiguous, which yields some intriguing character dynamics to supplement the underlying poignancy.

| Jan 4, 2019

Riseborough [has a] gifted ability to surprise even in a film's final moments. She is not one to lay down her cards on the table all at once, and we're all the better for it.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 14, 2018

Andrea Riseborough is phenomenal as the troubled lead. There's a subtlety and mastery to her performance.

| Oct 30, 2018

A quietly sad, painful drama, Nancy further cements Riseborough as one of the most intriguing and under-appreciated actresses of her generation.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 13, 2018

The overwhelming screen charisma of Andrea Riseborough is just about strong enough to prevent this identity drama from derailing into art house obscurity.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 12, 2018