The main character was fun and if you like those arduous hero types, you’ll get something out of this...

| Aug 12, 2024

...a reasonable-enough premise that is, by and large, employed to woefully uninvolving (and progressively interminable) effect...

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jul 25, 2024

Strictly one for the kids, the animated heist flick The Nut Job zips by thanks to its nonstop barrage of family-friendly mayhem.

| Jan 22, 2022

There is very little joy, almond or otherwise, in The Nut Job.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 1, 2021

The real problem with the film's vocal work, however, is simply its inconsistency that causes the tone of the film to bounce unconvincingly all over the place.

| Original Score: 2.0/4.0 | Sep 18, 2020

So with The Nut Job we have a movie that in way is marketed like an Over The Hedge rip-off that never really escapes that idea at all when it's on.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 11, 2020

While overall entertaining and a sure crowd-pleaser to the younger set, with The Nut Job, some elements of the film are chestnuty warm and tasty, roasted to perfection, while others prove to be a tough nut to crack.

| Jan 8, 2020

A pleasant -- if untaxing -- surprise.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 3, 2019

Predictably, the tykes will cater to the seemingly colorful antics of Surly Squirrel and his carousing cohorts but this will not be as playful to the grown-ups looking for some leftover irreverence and inspired inside satire.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 11, 2018

The story simply plugs away without introducing anything new or exciting, and often just repeating with slight variation. It's relatively dull even for a children's caper movie.

| Nov 1, 2018

You could definitely do worse, but that's a weak endorsement for a film that should be quickly forgotten in the coming months.

| Nov 28, 2017

It isn't as rich in content as Ratatouille but, with Liam Neeson voicing a raccoon and lots of kid-specific silliness, it's a nice snack as nuts tend to be.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 23, 2017

This is the cinematic equivalent of a nut with no kernel, a film with no heart.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 8, 2015

Children under seven will enjoy the slapstick nature of the fun and the irresistible Gangnam Style end credits sequence [but] parents might question why a film of this nature needs to feature humans using guns.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 10, 2014

This week's talking-animal toon is bad enough to cause an allergic reaction in anyone above the age of five. Everyone else is advised to take along two peanuts, one for each ear.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 15, 2014

Small, undemanding children might find this distracting; small, tree-hopping rodents may be mortally offended.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 4, 2014

The good name of Canadian-South Korean animated co-productions has been sullied forever.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 1, 2014

Endless wordplay and dumb slapstick do not a rewarding animation make. Pun-ishing.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 31, 2014

Makes as little of its furry leads as it does of its '50s setting.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 31, 2014

The mixture of old school crime caper and Looney Tunes-style slapstick lends it a pleasant retro feel for adults even if kids might find Surly a poor relation of the acorn-obsessed squirrel Scrat in the Ice Age series.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 31, 2014