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88The film is rightfully carried by Nico and Dani and under Gay's artful helmsmanship it's carried with remarkable sympathy and believability.
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80An exceptional coming-of-age film--subtle, humorous, compassionate, acutely perceptive.
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80Touching, funny, unflinching and true.
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75American teenage movies tidy things up by pairing off the right couples at the end. In Europe they know that summers end and life goes on.
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75While Nico and Dani presents itself as a no-frills coming-of-age tale, its soundtrack seems lifted from a teen comedy like "American Pie."
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75The movie ultimately turns out to be less about sex than it is about the point in a friendship where two people decide they will both be better off if they part ways.
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75Director Gay deals so honestly with the boys' emotions, it's almost a revelation when compared to Hollywood fabrications.
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75Honest, sensitive and keenly observant.
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75A more honest version of "Summer of '42."
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75Delivers the oft-trod subject of boys' sexuality with intelligence and freshness.
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70Nico and Dani merely retells a not uncommon tale without significantly enriching it. It's just too familiar to play as poignantly as it would like to.
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That rarest of creatures: a coming-of-age dramedy whose (nearly) teenage stars are natural actors, whose direction is unforced, and whose sexual themes are treated with candor and humor.
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60Breezy, surprisingly poignant Spanish film.
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58Rambling and easygoing, Nico and Dani is a modest but frank look at adolescent lust, both heterosexual and homosexual.
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50The acting is amiable but the story isn't much deeper than the callow main characters.
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50Sweet and harmless -- a beach movie in more ways than one -- but it doesn't run awfully deep.
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50Filled with the kind of frank, nonsensational sensuality that eludes American filmmakers, this movie proves again that the most interesting cinema about teenage life -- gay and otherwise -- is being made far from our provincial shores.
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50The movie avoids grand conclusions, and its restraint heightens the clarity of the perspective shifts that constitute a rite of passage; Nico and Dani is a modest chronicle of a summer during which everything had to change so that everything could stay the same.
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50Amazingly, Cesc Gay's delicate but unblinking film Nico and Dani succeeds in capturing and sustaining the fragile emotional climate of curiosity, fear, innocence and prurience that surrounds adolescent sexual experimentation.
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38A movie more interested in shocking than in entertaining.
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20Everyone will be indifferent, as indifferent and uncaring as the characters the film portrays.
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