This Irish drama is what happens when little movies get it right – respecting the situation instead of exploiting it, and exploring a difficult choice instead of suggesting that the built-in emotion of the challenge is all that’s needed.

| Original Score: A- | Dec 12, 2024

Perfectly judged and ultimately hopeful.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 10, 2024

This warm and tender film that manages to be a feel-good movie, which only occasionally dips into sentimentality amidst the tragic subject matter.

| Oct 5, 2024

Rarely emotionally manipulative, Nowhere Special is a sensitive, true-to-life drama about a father and son facing a life-changing moment.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 18, 2024

A measured, emotional ripper... a 35-year-old window cleaner and single father who must find a home for his four-year-old son when he learns he has only a few months to live... Details accrue; anger steels. A steady hand gets the story through.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Jul 4, 2024

A warm drama on fatherhood.

| Original Score: A | Jun 30, 2024

'Still Life' filmmaker Uberto Pasolini delivers a subtle and caring statement on navigating grief through terrific leads James Norton and young newcomer Daniel Lamont.

| May 20, 2024

It had all the potential to be a weepy you'd avoid, but it's really quite sensitive, powerful, and beautifully acted.

| May 13, 2024

The story is inherently heartbreaking but Pasolini doesn’t drown the film with bleakness. Norton is exceptional here and the father-son relationship feels authentic.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 11, 2024

‘Nowhere Special’ is a beautiful, encouraging story about the devoted bond between father and son but one wrapped in ever-present heartbreak and vulnerabilities.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 9, 2024

You could argue Nowhere Special is a little too spare, so tastefully restrained it almost misses touching our emotions. But that tactic pays off when, in the end, you'd have to have a heart of stone not to be moved to tears.

| May 6, 2024

This is a lovely film that has more to say about love than it does about dying. This perfect film will stay with you.

| May 6, 2024

For a film about loneliness and death, it’s tender, intelligent and life-affirming without ever being maudlin and mawkish. A rare and distinguished film indeed.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 3, 2024

Intimate rather than maudlin, this sensitive, vulnerable feature shapes into a beautiful testament to the undaunting love between a father and a son, and the ultimate gift that an ill dad can give his child.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 2, 2024

Lighter moments aside, “Nowhere Special” doesn’t sugarcoat its heartbreaking premise. The film is essentially a two-hander between Norton and Lamont, both of whom give excellent, complementary performances.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 1, 2024

Uberto Pasolini keeps his focus firmly on the people at the story’s core….As a result he wins our investment and keeps it for the duration. We feel the weight of every choice, we relish every tender moment, and we hurt with the inevitability of reality.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 1, 2024

Writer-director Uberto Pasolini lets all of this play out without grandstanding. The filmmaker doesn't embellish.

| Apr 29, 2024

This is not a “feel good” movie according to the most basic definition of that term, but it succeeds admirably in portraying human behavior at its most caring, loving, and forward-thinking.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 28, 2024

Nowhere Special is a beautiful testament to the love between a father and son, the lengths that a parent will go to for their child even while suffering themselves...while Norton’s performance is a perfect centerpiece for the story.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 26, 2024

Nowhere Special is something special indeed. If you aren’t shedding well-earned tears by the end of this film you simply are not human.

| Apr 26, 2024