- Starring: Bob Odenkirk, Bruce Dern, June Squibb, Stacy Keach, Will Forte
- Summary: An aging, booze-addled father makes the trip from Montana to Nebraska with his estranged son in order to claim a million dollar Mega Sweepstakes Marketing prize.
- Director: Alexander Payne
- Genre(s): Adventure, Drama
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 9 out of 9
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90Throughout, Payne gently infuses the film’s comic tone with strains of longing and regret, always careful to avoid the maudlin or cheaply sentimental.
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80Nebraska may not be startlingly new, and sometimes we can see the epiphanies looming up over the distant horizon; the tone is, moreover, lighter and more lenient than in earlier pictures like Sideways. But it is always funny and smart.
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80[A] wryly poignant and potent comic drama about the bereft state of things in America’s oft-vaunted heartland.
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80This is a resounding return to form for Payne: there are moments that recall his earlier road movies About Schmidt and Sideways, but it has a wistful, shuffling, grizzly-bearish rhythm all of its own.
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75In the film, Alexander Payne's overview of America is extraordinarily, multifariously profound.
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69There are some laughs – and a few moments worthy of tears – but there’s a breaking point of believability in here somewhere that keeps Nebraska merely good as opposed to great.
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67Nebraska is a small-scale quixotic adventure about the importance of dreams, no matter how pie-eyed, in which the outlined flaws could all be forgiven, if it just went somewhere a bit more surprising.
