Nebraska (2013)
Average Rating: 7.7/10
Reviews Counted: 28
Fresh: 24 | Rotten: 4
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Average Rating: 6.9/10
Critic Reviews: 8
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 2
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Director Alexander Payne (Sideways, The Descendants) takes the helm for this black and white road trip drama starring Bruce Dern as a tempestuous Missouri father who's convinced he's won a million dollar magazine sweepstakes, and Will Forte as the son who grudgingly agrees to drive him to Nebraska to claim his winnings. Bob Odenkirk and Stacy Keach costar. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
Nov 15, 2013 Limited
Paramount Pictures
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All Critics (28) | Top Critics (8) | Fresh (24) | Rotten (4)
Alternately a poetic tale of personal affirmation and a plainspoken metaphor for tenacity in the face of meager hope, "Nebraska" is not just a beautiful or great film but an essential one for our time.
Top CriticThere's a poignant suggestion of a modern-day Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, and it works in a thoughtfully wrought film that feels more built to last than Payne's last feature, The Descendants.
A whimsical minor addition to the Payne canon.
A wistful ode to small-town Midwestern life and the quixotic dreams of stubborn old men.
A bittersweet father-son road trip through an emotionally economically parched homeland.
Nebraska has much merit, but for Payne it is a little underwhelming.
Bruce Dern's towering performance anchors this story set in what urban hipsters call flyover country.
Bruce Dern's awards-potential performance frames a marvelous look at the large areas of America rudely called flyover country by urbanites.
'Nebraska' is in love with its characters. By the end, so is the audience.
A beguiling and intimate change of pace for Payne.
In the film, Alexander Payne's overview of America is extraordinarily, multifariously profound.
One of the Most Spiritually Literate Films of 2013 about a son who takes his irritable dad on the road and in the process opens himself to truly honoring his father.
a showcase opportunity for national treasure Bruce Dern.
One of Payne's better films.
A tangle of film school clichés, rampant condescension and woe-is-me, middle-aged-white-guy-problems so juvenile it would blot even a first-time filmmaker's copybook.
A straightforward road trip with an embracing sense of melancholia
The critical consensus from Cannes about Nebraska is that it's "minor Payne." I think it might be more accurate to call it a transitional film, with one foot in his old techniques and one tentatively standing in new ones.
All I can tell you for certain is that Nebraska got to me.
Payne's latest considers the notion of legacy with quietly heart-wrenching attention to detail, and is one of his sweetest yet most unsentimental films to date.
Essentially this movie is about giving an old man his dignity, which is found through letting him play out an embarrassing misunderstanding, letting someone figure that out for themselves is more respectful than "saving" them from it by stepping in.
Payne directs the film in a relatively uncluttered manner, ensuring the film plays out as a slowly unravelling elegant narrative.
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