Downloading Nancy 2008

Critics score:
17 / 100

Reviews provided by RottenTomatoes

Kevin B. Lee, Time Out: For all the bad behavior on display, the emotional stakes remain hazily defined. Read more

Noel Murray, AV Club: A chilly, bleak film about characters so programmatic that their plight is easy to shrug off. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: What makes the movie a trial to sit through isn't just the heroine's pain-freak tastes. It's that a kinkfest with this blah an emotional spectrum is selling its own chic form of puritanism -- sex with all the life force repressed. Read more

Kyle Smith, New York Post: Some suspense arises about just how far the woman's sickness will take her, but it's overwhelmed by the pointlessness of the story. Read more

Rex Reed, New York Observer: Not only does it waste the audience's time with 102 minutes of misery and despair, but it also trashes the talents of four fine actors who should have stayed in bed reading better screenplays that deserve attention and enhance careers. Read more

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: You can't really blame Bello for taking every chance available to let her monster talent off its chain, even when the opportunity takes the form of something so ill conceived and unworthy (and dull and ridiculous) as Downloading Nancy. Read more

Todd McCarthy, Variety: Renck indisputably proves he's able to sustain a tone, but it's a pretentiously solemn one in which the wallow in extreme psychological and emotional realms are continuously disrupted by silly and distracting real-life details. Read more

Elena Oumano, Village Voice: When you peel away this film's complex performances, at the core of its drawn-out suicide spectacle is pain so extreme, so alienating, and, in the end, so pointless. Read more