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The film is most effective when it’s portraying the dynamics of its teenaged universe. Screenwriter Jessica Sharzer provides enough space for the actors to flesh out and inhabit their standard teen-movie trope characters, and it’s easy to identify with whatever type you were in high school.
- Emma Roberts Believable as Perpetual Teen
- From The Same Bookstore Section as The Hunger Games
- There’S No Denying Nerve‘S Adrenaline
- The Villain Is in The Mirror
- Conclusion
Emma Roberts, who’s been rapidly building a credible resumé divided between features (Adult World, We’re the Millers) and TV (American Horror Story,Scream Queens), convincingly plays a high school senior despite the fact that she’s 25. Her character, Venus, known to her friends as “Vee,” is finishing high school on Staten Island, living with her ov...
Young adult novels are one of the hottest sources of movie properties these days, and this is no exception. Based on the YA novel of the same name by Jeanne Ryan, Nerve deals almost exclusively with young people in extraordinary circumstances. It primarily differs from recent YA franchises like The Hunger Games and Divergentin being set in a recogn...
That’s not to say that Nerveis without its distracting directorial flourishes. Completely unnecessary, obtrusive graphics are periodically superimposed on establishing shots just to remind you you’re watching a movie. That’s seldom a good idea, and it isn’t here. Schulman and Joostget a lot right, though. There is an immediacy to the movie that can...
Elevating the movie is its awareness of trends in modern society, particularly the fast-moving immediacy of the online world and social media. Nerve’s players are required to upload their stunts to the internet, where they’re viewed live in real time by the watchers. Nerveis completely in touch with the generation who don’t need TV because their en...
Nerve is a smart, unusual thriller, shrewdly targeted at an audience that actually buys tickets. While it’s regrettable that its last act doesn’t live up to the lead-in, it still delivers an entertaining and provocative hour and thirty-six minutes. This could have been the sort of thing that Alfred Hitchc*ckwould be making in the twenty-first centu...
Nerve is a comic-book vision of how the Internet has become a gladiatorial arena of voyeurism. But the movie, like the game it’s about, is hard to stop watching, even when you know it’s playing you.
Aug 9, 2016 · Most movies about the internet imply that falling for its charms means that you're cripplingly insecure, a clinical narcissist, or both. But Nerve, a new teen-oriented techno-thriller, allows...
- Kaitlyn Tiffany
Jul 27, 2016 · A high school senior finds herself immersed in an online game of truth or dare, where her every move starts to become manipulated by an anonymous community of "watchers."
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- Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman
- PG-13
- Emma Roberts
Nerve is really good.... The dnouement is a bit too clever for its own good but its point about the dangers of online anonymity is bang-on. Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 19, 2017
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Jul 26, 2016 · Despite some necessary elements of cliché and predictability for the admonishing tale, Nerve efficaciously molds the world of Go-Pros and iPhone videos into an action movie. Younger generations...
