Nitram

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Nitram

2022,

1h 52m,

Mystery & Thriller/

Crime/

Drama

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Nitram (Caleb Landry-Jones) lives with his mother (Judy Davis) and father (Anthony LaPaglia) in suburban Australia in the Mid 1990s. He lives a life of isolation and frustration at never being able to fit in. That is until he unexpectedly finds a close friend in a reclusive heiress, Helen (Essie Davis). However when that friendship meets its tragic end, and Nitram's loneliness and anger grow, he begins a slow descent into a nightmare that culminates in the most nihilistic and heinous of acts.

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Critics Consensus

Nitram asks viewers to face a gut-wrenchingly grim moment in Australian history -- but rewards that effort with a gripping, well-acted character study.

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Christina Newland

iNews.co.uk

Sep 18, 2024

5/5

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

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Clarisse Loughrey

Independent (UK)

Jul 5, 2022

4/5

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.

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Mark Kermode

Observer (UK)

Jul 4, 2022

3/5

[A] quietly harrowing drama...

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Christos Tsiolkas

The Saturday Paper

Aug 19, 2026

One of the astonishing wonders of Nitram is that director Justin Kurzel manages to honour the imperative not to exploit the tragedy while keeping that humanising memory of the excitable child alive for the duration of the film.

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Calum Cooper

In Their Own League

Jul 15, 2024

2/5

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.

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Ross McIndoe

Vague Visages

Jul 4, 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.

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Justin Kurzel

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Caleb Landry Jones

Nitram

Judy Davis

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Sean Keenan

Jamie

Essie Davis

Helen

Anthony LaPaglia

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Synopsis

Nitram (Caleb Landry-Jones) lives with his mother (Judy Davis) and father (Anthony LaPaglia) in suburban Australia in the Mid 1990s. He lives a life of isolation and frustration at never being able to fit in. That is until he unexpectedly finds a close friend in a reclusive heiress, Helen (Essie Davis). However when that friendship meets its tragic end, and Nitram's loneliness and anger grow, he begins a slow descent into a nightmare that culminates in the most nihilistic and heinous of acts.

Director: Justin Kurzel
Producer: Nick Batzias, Shaun Grant, Justin Kurzel, Virginia Whitwell
Screenwriter: Shaun Grant
Distributor: IFC Films
Production Co: GoodThing Productions, Melbourne International Film Festival
Genre: Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
Original Language: Australian English
Release Date (Theaters): Mar 30, 2022, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 30, 2022
Runtime: 1h 52m

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