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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