Had Nerve stuck to the intrigue around online games, it could have been an efficiently entertaining piece of cinema.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Nov 20, 2017

The denouement is ridiculous, the conclusion sketchy and the script's attempts to be hip are, in the end, slightly pathetic.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 9, 2016

The secret weapon of the film is cinematographer Michael Simmonds, who has a whole bag of tricks up his sleeve.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 31, 2016

Nerve, for all its faults, is a timely reminder of the perils of social conformity in an increasingly online world.

| Aug 25, 2016

Taking its name from a fictional smartphone game in which contestants roam New York completing challenges and are whittled down until only one remains, Nerve is basically Pokmon Go meets Highlander.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 25, 2016

It's easy to be cynical about Schulman and Joost as gimmicky exploiters of the zeitgeist, but in Sharzer's script, they've channeled the illicit excitement of Truth or Dare into a digital form and turned up the gas.

| Aug 16, 2016

New York makes a suitably dynamic backdrop to this high-stakes trial, and the potshots taken against the ugly mob mentality of the anonymous online participants hit their target.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 14, 2016

This ingenious thriller based around gaming and social media can't quite sustain its early momentum.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 11, 2016

A zesty entertainment that may avoid seeming hopelessly dated until it arrives on DVD (if such things still exist).

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 11, 2016

Nerve zips along, looks really smashing and has the mental wiring of a hyperactive squirrel.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 11, 2016

Nerve's biggest problem is that, much like a confused kid in high school, it just isn't sure what it wants to be.

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

While the first half of the movie is a giddy good time, at a certain point the inherent implausibility fueling things begins to take its toll.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 9, 2016

Nerve is a dizzyingly of-the-moment good time, a dystopian meet-cute in present-day New York.

| Aug 2, 2016

It gets off on the highwire fun of living on a digital dare and then pisses away its provocations by lecturing us with a metaphorical take on social media as an STD. What a buzz kill.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 29, 2016

Nerve looks fabulous and the pace is evenly adrenalized, which makes up for clichd characters, a concocted premise and commentary that is a bit on the nose ...

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 29, 2016

"Nerve" is sharp looking and delivers real jolts, even if the climax pushes things a bit far and wraps up too easily. Or maybe it's an accurate look at what'll happen when "Nerve" becomes real?

| Original Score: B | Jul 29, 2016

Like one of its daredevils hanging one-handed from skyscraper scaffolding, Nerve mostly manages to maintain its precarious balance of pulpy suspense and social commentary.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 29, 2016

If it collapses in the end by going dark and also bonkers and bringing in hackers ex machina to clean up its mess, well, directors Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost can say they did it for the feels.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 28, 2016

The sharpest, wildest and most unpredictable thriller I've seen this year ...

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 28, 2016

An enjoyable teen flick about the glamour and danger of the internet.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 28, 2016