An exceptional coming-of-age film--subtle, humorous, compassionate, acutely perceptive.
75
Portland OregonianKim Morgan
Portland OregonianKim Morgan
Delivers the oft-trod subject of boys' sexuality with intelligence and freshness.
75
Baltimore SunChris Kaltenbach
Baltimore SunChris Kaltenbach
A more honest version of "Summer of '42."
75
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
Director Gay deals so honestly with the boys' emotions, it's almost a revelation when compared to Hollywood fabrications.
58
Seattle Post-IntelligencerSean Axmaker
Seattle Post-IntelligencerSean Axmaker
Rambling and easygoing, Nico and Dani is a modest but frank look at adolescent lust, both heterosexual and homosexual.
50
Christian Science MonitorDavid Sterritt
Christian Science MonitorDavid Sterritt
The acting is amiable but the story isn't much deeper than the callow main characters.
50
San Francisco ChronicleEdward Guthmann
San Francisco ChronicleEdward Guthmann
Sweet and harmless -- a beach movie in more ways than one -- but it doesn't run awfully deep.
50
L.A. WeeklyChuck Wilson
L.A. WeeklyChuck Wilson
Filled with the kind of frank, nonsensational sensuality that eludes American filmmakers, this movie proves again that the most interesting cinema about teenage life -- gay and otherwise -- is being made far from our provincial shores.
20
Film.comHenry Cabot Beck
Film.comHenry Cabot Beck
Everyone will be indifferent, as indifferent and uncaring as the characters the film portrays.