A thoughtful and icy examination of the creation of a mass shooter.

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

While poor mental health certainly isn’t an excuse for any kind of toxic action, let alone murder, it is saddening to see director Justin Kurzel, an otherwise gifted filmmaker, approach this matter in such a regressive manner.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 15, 2024

The question of purpose still lingers, of what was achieved by reliving these crimes and humanizing the man who perpetrated them. But thanks to the sense of slow-motion horror that Jones and Kurzel create, Nitram remains a relentlessly intriguing film.

| Jul 4, 2024

...an exceedingly (and sometime excessively) deliberate character study that features, at its core, an often spellbinding performance by Jones...

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 24, 2022

A film that couldn't be more anti-firearms; a story whose moral has more to do with gun control than with issues related to mental health, to give an example. Full review in Spanish.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 30, 2022

Although it is a tough watch, you will be unable to look away from Nitram. A captivating and engrossing study of a spree killer.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 13, 2022

The furthest thing from the feel-good movie of the year but features a handful of accomplished performances from everyone involved and a top-tier screenplay that straddles the line between documentary and dark drama.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Nov 2, 2022

Some filmmakers just can't resist challenging material, though Kurzel proves equal to the task.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 10, 2022

A raw yet visually cinematic film portraying the backward head of a human named Martin. [Full review in Spanish]

| Oct 7, 2022

This striking true crime portrait, although understandably controversial, manages to find insight without sensationalism.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 10, 2022

Jones inhabits the facets of Nitram in full force, looking committed to the intensity that bubbles until it cannot stay capped any longer.

| Aug 16, 2022

At once terrifyingly unhinged and finely modulated, Jones guides us down the rabbit hole of Nitram’s anger and resentment in measured steps.

| Aug 8, 2022

Through a malaise of angst and early-20s boredom, [the title character] drifts in the Tazmanian suburbs until, in a stranger-than-fiction twist, he meets eccentric older heiress Helen.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 21, 2022

It is undeniably well made, expertly performed and does for the most part manage to avoid a sense of sensationalism that other films of its kind often trade in.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 12, 2022

This is a searing and disquieting film that doesn’t claim to have the answers.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 6, 2022

Even for audience members who are unfamiliar with this true story, the gnawing intensity is almost overwhelming.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 6, 2022

Nitram is a stark, difficult, but deeply reflective film that asks sincerely why we describe these crimes as incomprehensible at the very same time as we watch the same patterns unfold, again and again.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 5, 2022

[A] quietly harrowing drama...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 4, 2022

Respectful in its treatment of the final carnage, psychologically nuanced without offering the perpetrator an ounce of sympathy, Nitram is a character study of the highest order.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 4, 2022

The film never grandstands on the social issues, but the devil is in the detail and it's handled with sober, unflinching focus.

| Jul 4, 2022