Nasty indeed.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 8, 2016

This is one of those awkward films that depicts complacent characters while itself looking complacent, and Silva never quite seems in control of his volatile material.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 10, 2016

Silva captures the boho hipster milieu of the Brooklyn setting, but adds a sense of unease ...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 8, 2016

Nasty Baby is a one-trick dramedy that bets the house on a daring final-reel twist that arrives far too late to compensate for the sheer bum-numbing agony that's gone before it.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 7, 2016

This is a strange, unclassifiable piece of work, bordering on craziness and incoherence but acted and directed with such quiet vehemence that it has some interest.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 7, 2016

Wears its brilliant social observations lightly and enjoyably and then with shocking audacity.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 7, 2016

Wiig strolls the line between adorable and obnoxious with the ease of a pro.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 4, 2016

Like many Rivette films, Nasty Baby is an enigmatic comedy-drama set in a bohemian subculture, with a plot involving the creation of a work of art.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 12, 2016

An awkward scene between the artist and a local gallery director highlights Silva's fluency in the rituals of social superiority.

| Oct 29, 2015

Ultimately, Silva's uneven command of tone undoes whatever goodwill his actors have managed to generate. They - and we - deserve much better than this.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 29, 2015

(The end) slams the brakes on any goodwill you had for the characters.

| Oct 25, 2015

Silva's screenplay has a slice-of-life feel; Sergio Armstrong's cinematography provides the natural lighting and handheld camerawork that adds to that sensation.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 23, 2015

Nasty Baby takes aim at a fat target: gay modern-family dramedies, those well-meaning, self-congratulatory films that haven't actually felt modern in a decade.

| Original Score: B- | Oct 23, 2015

"Nasty Baby" rights itself intriguingly when Silva pushes his characters into unknown territory and lifestyle is imposed upon by life.

| Oct 23, 2015

What had looked like a meandering, anecdotal story turns out to be a carefully constructed narrative machine, one that dispenses a brilliantly nasty series of surprises.

| Oct 22, 2015

I disliked it at first-the camera is as jittery as the characters-and kept disliking it until I realized that I'd been drawn in, if not exactly captivated.

| Oct 22, 2015

A complete mess.

| Original Score: C | Oct 22, 2015

With the help of the confident work of the ensemble cast, Nasty Baby makes its transition from the happy world of the hipster-dominated, organic, artistic streets of Brooklyn to a dark and grim offshoot with ease...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 22, 2015

Wiig and Adebimpe give appealing, naturalistic performances ... but it's not enough to keep the otherwise rambling narrative together.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 21, 2015

The film is a compelling addition to Sebastin Silva's cinema of compassionate comeuppance.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 19, 2015