86
Metascore
46 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100VarietyScott FoundasVarietyScott FoundasThroughout, Payne gently infuses the film’s comic tone with strains of longing and regret, always careful to avoid the maudlin or cheaply sentimental.
- 90New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinNew York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinThe movie is a triumph of an especially satisfying kind. It arrives at a kind of gnarled grace that’s true to this sorry old man and the family he let down in so many ways.
- 80The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyThe Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthy[A] wryly poignant and potent comic drama about the bereft state of things in America’s oft-vaunted heartland.
- 80Time Out LondonDave CalhounTime Out LondonDave CalhounMore than ever Payne allows the humour to rise up gently from his story rather than burst through it.
- 80The GuardianPeter BradshawThe GuardianPeter BradshawNebraska may not be startlingly new, and sometimes we can see the epiphanies looming up over the distant horizon; the tone is, moreover, lighter and more lenient than in earlier pictures like Sideways. But it is always funny and smart.
- 80The TelegraphRobbie CollinThe TelegraphRobbie CollinThis is a resounding return to form for Payne: there are moments that recall his earlier road movies About Schmidt and Sideways, but it has a wistful, shuffling, grizzly-bearish rhythm all of its own.
- 75Slant MagazineR. Kurt OsenlundSlant MagazineR. Kurt OsenlundIn the film, Alexander Payne's overview of America is extraordinarily, multifariously profound.
- 69Film.comJordan HoffmanFilm.comJordan HoffmanThere are some laughs – and a few moments worthy of tears – but there’s a breaking point of believability in here somewhere that keeps Nebraska merely good as opposed to great.
- 67The PlaylistJessica KiangThe PlaylistJessica KiangNebraska is a small-scale quixotic adventure about the importance of dreams, no matter how pie-eyed, in which the outlined flaws could all be forgiven, if it just went somewhere a bit more surprising.