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By Christopher Tookey (761) for Daily Mail (UK) (1,461) on 18 Dec 2009

Nowhere Boy does offer insights into what made The Beatles great, and it's an unpretentious, well-paced first feature…

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By David Edwards (979) for Daily Mirror (UK) (1,133) on 18 Dec 2009

While revealing almost nothing new about Lennon, and sticking rigidly to biopic conventions, it's just about worth catching thanks to Scott…

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By Nigel Andrews (1,359) for Financial Times (1,822) on 18 Dec 2009

The late teenage years of John Lennon, put through the biopic wringer by screenwriter Matt Greenhalgh, come out as flat and lifeless as yesterday's…

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By Anthony Quinn (478) for Independent (UK) (2,026) on 18 Dec 2009

This study of a boy damaged by loss yet determined to honour his talent strikes a mighty chord, and marks a hugely promising feature debut…

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By Allan Hunter (1,486) for Daily Express (UK) (2,141) on 18 Dec 2009

Kristin Scott-Thomas and Anne-Marie Duff are both brilliant and Aaron Johnson convincingly captures the sarcasm and raw emotions of Lennon…

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By Rich Cline (3,056) for Shadows on the Wall (2,096) on 18 Dec 2009

This beautifully written and directed biopic has a strong ring of truth to it, mainly due to Taylor-Wood's artistic approach to filmmaking…

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By Leigh Paatsch (1,103) for Herald Sun (Australia) (1,081) on 17 Dec 2009

If this turgid biopic of the young John Lennon was a musical instrument, it would be an untuned, one-string guitar…

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By Kate Jinx (6) for Concrete Playground (635) on 16 Dec 2009

Taylor-Wood, known predominantly as a photographer and video artist, has made a loving, intimate rendering of a snippet of a life…

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By Simon Weaving (195) for Screenwize (216) on 19 Nov 2009

Visual artist Sam Taylor-Wood casts aside her moody conceptual art and directs a lively, insightful and slightly nostalgic look at the drama…

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By Anton Bitel (1,340) for Eye for Film (1,537) on 30 Oct 2009

There is something a bit bland, a bit kitchen sink, a bit telemovie, about this portrait of the artist as a young man…

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By Nick Curtis (18) for London Evening Standard (2,015) on 30 Oct 2009

Nowhere Boy has striking emotional depth, a spot-on sense of period, and a central performance of remarkable texture and nuance from newcomer…

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