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Nobody Knows (2005) Rank 4 Reviews

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Movie critics combined give Nobody Knows (2005) a score of 3.4785 out of 4
based on (27) reviews
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Nobody Knows (2005) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Entertainment Weekly (Lisa Schwarzbaum)Entertainment Weekly (Lisa Schwarzbaum)
Yagira's performance is so extraordinary, it won him the best actor prize at the 2004 Cannes film festival. ...read the complete Nobody Knows movie review at Entertainment Weekly (Lisa Schwarzbaum)
Nobody Knows (2005) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Chicago Tribune (Michael Wilmington)Chicago Tribune (Michael Wilmington)
Nobody Knows, by the often excellent Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda, is one of those special movies that can give us a new way of seeing. ...read the complete Nobody Knows movie review at Chicago Tribune (Michael Wilmington)
Nobody Knows (2005) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for San Francisco Chronicle (Carla Meyer)San Francisco Chronicle (Carla Meyer)
The film, winsome and tragic at once and finely attuned to the rhythms of childhood, always seems quite close to real life. ...read the complete Nobody Knows movie review at San Francisco Chronicle (Carla Meyer)
Nobody Knows (2005) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Washington Post (Desson Thomson)Washington Post (Desson Thomson)
[The children's] remarkable lack of self-consciousness ... and Kore-eda's quasi-documentary style give this movie a stunning credibility. ...read the complete Nobody Knows movie review at Washington Post (Desson Thomson)
Nobody Knows (2005) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Philadelphia Inquirer (Steven Rea)Philadelphia Inquirer (Steven Rea)
It's a quietly powerful work, pulsing with gentle humor and a gripping sense of imminent calamity and dread. ...read the complete Nobody Knows movie review at Philadelphia Inquirer (Steven Rea)
Nobody Knows (2005) scores a combined 3.64 out of 4 stars for Portland Oregonian (Shawn Levy)Portland Oregonian (Shawn Levy)
Moves at a stately pace; it's a long film, to boot. But there's real drama and pathos in the story, in the blend of matter-of-factness and potential catastrophe, in the depiction of innocence imperiled. ...read the complete Nobody Knows movie review at Portland Oregonian (Shawn Levy)
Nobody Knows (2005) scores a combined 3.60 out of 4 stars for The New Yorker (Anthony Lane)The New Yorker (Anthony Lane)
I certainly came out of Nobody Knows feeling numb; only later, reflecting on the fact that the movie was inspired by a true story, did it occur to me that the numbness could have been deliberate, and that what suffused this picture was a mist of anger. ...read the complete Nobody Knows movie review at The New Yorker (Anthony Lane)
Nobody Knows (2005) scores a combined 3.60 out of 4 stars for LA Weekly (Ella Taylor)LA Weekly (Ella Taylor)
Unfolds with such leisurely, terrible beauty, it takes a while to realize that what we are witnessing is the children's long slide into beggary, exacerbated by the slow torture of faint hope. ...read the complete Nobody Knows movie review at LA Weekly (Ella Taylor)
Nobody Knows (2005) scores a combined 3.60 out of 4 stars for Chicago Reader (Jim Healy)Chicago Reader (Jim Healy)
Yuya Yagira, winner of the best actor award at Cannes this year, is superb as the protective eldest child; he and his other nonprofessional costars are quietly heartbreaking. ...read the complete Nobody Knows movie review at Chicago Reader (Jim Healy)
Nobody Knows (2005) scores a combined 3.60 out of 4 stars for The New York Times (A.O. Scott)The New York Times (A.O. Scott)
Not for the faint of heart, though it has no scenes of overt violence, and barely a tear is shed. It is also strangely thrilling, not only because of the quiet assurance of Mr. Kore-eda's direction, but also because of his alert, humane sense of sympathy. ...read the complete Nobody Knows movie review at The New York Times (A.O. Scott)
Nobody Knows (2005) scores a combined 3.56 out of 4 stars for Austin Chronicle (Marjorie Baumgarten)Austin Chronicle (Marjorie Baumgarten)
Nobody Knows is the rare film that successfully tells its tale of childhood from the children’s point of view. ...read the complete Nobody Knows movie review at Austin Chronicle (Marjorie Baumgarten)
Nobody Knows (2005) scores a combined 3.52 out of 4 stars for Charlotte Observer (Lawrence Toppman)Charlotte Observer (Lawrence Toppman)
You won't forget Nobody Knows, the quietly harrowing tale of four abandoned Japanese children. ...read the complete Nobody Knows movie review at Charlotte Observer (Lawrence Toppman)
Nobody Knows (2005) scores a combined 3.52 out of 4 stars for Baltimore Sun (Michael Sragow)Baltimore Sun (Michael Sragow)
Kore-eda expresses the terror of the kids' predicament with a touch that's equally tender and dispassionate. ...read the complete Nobody Knows movie review at Baltimore Sun (Michael Sragow)
Nobody Knows (2005) scores a combined 3.52 out of 4 stars for Boston Globe (Ty Burr)Boston Globe (Ty Burr)
Spare and elegant and harrowing, it's an ode to childhood trust being stretched until it snaps. ...read the complete Nobody Knows movie review at Boston Globe (Ty Burr)
Nobody Knows (2005) scores a combined 3.52 out of 4 stars for Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
There are moments in Yagira's performance that will break your heart. ...read the complete Nobody Knows movie review at Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
Nobody Knows (2005) scores a combined 3.52 out of 4 stars for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (Stephen Cole)The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (Stephen Cole)
Nothing short of mesmerizing. ...read the complete Nobody Knows movie review at The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (Stephen Cole)
Nobody Knows (2005) scores a combined 3.52 out of 4 stars for New York Post (V.A. Musetto)New York Post (V.A. Musetto)
Kore-eda presents the deeply moving story in a documentary style that is both gentle and compelling. ...read the complete Nobody Knows movie review at New York Post (V.A. Musetto)
 
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Overall Rating:
3.1712
Nobody Knows (2005) is ranked overall as out of 4 stars
Avg Critic Score:
3.4785
Nobody Knows (2005) is ranked overall as out of 4 stars
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