Nancy's reviews
Media reviews
Roger Ebert
what the film is finally about is not whether or not Nancy will inflict damage, but whether these lonely people can receive true grace. In this respect and several others, ?Nancy? exhibits a seriousness of purpose that?s rare in American movies today.
The Playlist
'Nancy' is an assured and genius debut from first-time feature director Christina Choe. Much like its protagonist, the film is an enigmatic and wholly original take.
The A.V. Club
'Nancy' sets its title character up as a lost, lonely woman in an alienating world, then pushes the audience's sympathy for her as far as it can go.
(Christina Choe's) story is of people searching for a few rays of hope in the depths of their own tragedies ? even if a little bit of self-delusion is what that takes to get through the day.
What the veracity of the situation is becomes less important than what all three of them are aspiring to believe - and in a world full of lonely people, there's a lot of truth in that.
The Guardian
Good performances and interesting, though undeveloped narrative ideas in this debut feature from writer-director Christina Choe.
The Washington Post
'Nancy' possesses an alert, tense sense of atmosphere, but it winds up being as glum and inert as the protagonist herself.
New York Times
What's left is a strange, sour tale that's neither origin mystery nor journey of self-discovery, but a vexing gesture toward damage and delusion that never permits us to peek under its broken heroine's hood.
Ordinarily, this might be a mistake ? telling a story through the eyes of someone we don?t trust throws every plot detail into question, which can pull us out of the movie in all sorts of unintended ways ? but here, the disorientation is bracing and unpredictable.
Festival Internacional de Cine de Lanzarote