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Nitram Reviews

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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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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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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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David Nusair Reel Film Reviews Dec 24, 2022 3.5/4
...an exceedingly (and sometime excessively) deliberate character study that features, at its core, an often spellbinding performance by Jones...
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Sebastian Zavala Kahn Cinencuentro Nov 30, 2022 4/5
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.
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Dallas King The People's Movies Nov 13, 2022 4/5
Although it is a tough watch, you will be unable to look away from Nitram. A captivating and engrossing study of a spree killer.
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Jonathan DeHaan Nightmare on Film Street Nov 2, 2022 8/10
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.
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Kathy Fennessy Video Librarian Magazine Oct 10, 2022 3.5/5
Some filmmakers just can't resist challenging material, though Kurzel proves equal to the task.
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Javier Ocaña El Pais (Spain) Oct 7, 2022
A raw yet visually cinematic film portraying the backward head of a human named Martin. [Full review in Spanish]
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Caitlyn Downs ScaredSheepless.com Sep 10, 2022 4/5
This striking true crime portrait, although understandably controversial, manages to find insight without sensationalism.
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Michael Frank The Spool Aug 16, 2022
Jones inhabits the facets of Nitram in full force, looking committed to the intensity that bubbles until it cannot stay capped any longer.
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Prahlad Srihari Firstpost Aug 8, 2022
At once terrifyingly unhinged and finely modulated, Jones guides us down the rabbit hole of Nitram’s anger and resentment in measured steps.
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Adam Stafford The Skinny Jul 21, 2022 4/5
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.
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Andrew Gaudion VultureHound Jul 12, 2022 3/5
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.
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Hilary A White Sunday Independent (Ireland) Jul 6, 2022 5/5
This is a searing and disquieting film that doesn’t claim to have the answers.
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Rich Cline Shadows on the Wall Jul 6, 2022 4/5
Even for audience members who are unfamiliar with this true story, the gnawing intensity is almost overwhelming.
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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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Donald Clarke Irish Times Jul 4, 2022 5/5
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.
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