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The Nice Guys

2016

Shane Black

Russell Crowe, Ryan Gosling, Angourie Rice, Matt Bomer ...

6.2

23,266

Comedy. Action Set in smoggy 1970s Los Angeles, story follows Jackson Healy (muscle-for-hire, recovering alcoholic) and Holland March (private eye, practicing alcoholic), who are brought together by the suicide of a fading porn star. However, the dead girl's aunt is convinced she saw her niece alive and well after the highly publicized incident. March needs money, takes the case, and within days, it's blossomed into a far-reaching murder conspiracy, ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"That the film mostly falls flat has far more to do with the largely unconvincing material rather than with the co-stars (...) the actors display a buoyant comic rapport."	NEU
United States	Scott Mendelson Forbes	"There is a thematic richness to its gumshoe antics (...) There are times where 'The Nice Guys' borders on self-parody, but it always remembers to respect the inherent drama of its story."	POS
United States	Russ Fischer The Playlist	"[A] fast-paced, deeply funny mystery."	POS
United States	Owen Gleiberman Variety	"'The Nice Guys' (...) is singularly clever about its own triviality, and it offers the scruffy pleasure of seeing two great actors dial down their gravitas with style."	POS
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"This is a dumb movie pretending to be smart, even as it wants you to believe the opposite. Still, dumb can be fun."	NEU
United States	Rene Rodriguez Miami Herald	"'The Nice Guys' never lives up to the promise of its hilarious first 10 minutes, but Crowe and Gosling are good enough to leave you hoping for a sequel (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of four)"	POS
Ireland	Tara Brady Irish Times	"Too often, 'The Nice Guys' feels like the Funniest Film of 1994. There are worse things (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"'The Nice Guys' is basically a throwaway. But you might not care since the atmosphere, as delivered by master cinematographer Philippe Rousselot, is so deliciously scuzzy and inviting (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of four)"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"[Black] creates some outrageously contrived and protracted shootouts and one or two good old fashioned action explosions. But he also keeps the dialogue cracking along. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of five)"	POS
United Kingdom	James Mottram Total Film	"For a knockabout farce, 'The Nice Guys' scores high on the charts. Admittedly, setting itself up for a sequel may be overly optimistic (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Eric Kohn IndieWire	"'The Nice Guys' delivers enough brilliant physical comedy to smooth over its blunter narrative devices."	POS
United States	Andy Crump Paste Magazine	"'The Nice Guys' isn't terrible -it just ducks mediocrity- but every advance it takes toward quality is made on the strengths of Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling"	NEU
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling are clearly enjoying the hell out of each other in this crime caper set in 1977 Los Angeles. So how can you resist? (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of our)"	POS
United States	John Serba Decider	"The plot here is amazing. Not for its amusing convolution, period detail or sharply honed political commentary, but because it puts these two guys together"	POS
Canada	Sandy Schaefer Screen Rant	"The film doesn't necessarily represent Black at his best as a storyteller, but it's nonetheless a very funny and enjoyable neo-Noir romp (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Joe Morgenstern The Wall Street Journal	Everything has its own illogic in 'The Nice Guys,' a consistently entertaining, frequently violent and generally slapdash action comedy"	POS
United States	Justin Chang Los Angeles Times	"Though the plot here may be a confusing, multi-threaded mess... it's occasionally offset by the exuberance with which Black blends splatter and slapstick, and the leeway he grants his two very game leads"	NEU
United States	Julia Alexander Polygon	"A piece of contemporary cinema that encompasses everything I love about where we are. It's self-aware, it's clever and above all else, it accepts the faults of people and uses them to create a story about finding humanity"	POS
United Kingdom	James White Empire	"Quick on its wits and fast with its fists, this is Black firmly back doing what he does best. And nobody out there does it better (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Tasha Robinson The Verge	"While the characters are distinctive and charming, and the dialogue is often pretty funny, 'The Nice Guys' is a large step down"	NEU

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