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9 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75The A.V. ClubNathan RabinThe A.V. ClubNathan RabinBogdanovich’s affection for film’s embryonic beginnings informs every frame, from the machine-gun crackle of snappy banter smartly executed to meticulously choreographed pratfalls and comic fights to silent-movie-style intertitles.
- 70NewsweekJack KrollNewsweekJack KrollNickelodeon is Bogdanovich's sweet funny homage to the days before World War I when America played with its new toy, the movies, in those converted storefronts or jerry-built pantheons where for a nickel you could enter the new magic darkness of electric centuryIn that flickering, faintly salacious darkness, a new innocence was born. [27 Dec 1976, p.56]
- 50Chicago ReaderDave KehrChicago ReaderDave KehrBogdanovich is trying to do an interesting and commendable thing in dramatizing aesthetic passion; his failure is as noble as it is conspicuous.
- 50Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertA curiously flat movie. It functions like clockwork and it looks right, but it doesn't feel like much.
- Nickelodeon is two hours and two minutes of impersonations.Some of them are very good impersonations—deft and funny—but they lack a life to string them together.
- 50TV Guide MagazineTV Guide MagazineAn attempt by director Bogdanovich to capture his great love of early movies in a full-length motion picture.
- 50The New YorkerPauline KaelThe New YorkerPauline KaelIt sounds promising, but Bogdanovich attempts an exercise in style, and the result is sustained clutter.
- 40Time OutTime OutThe direction is agonisingly pedantic for a comedy, and leaves O'Neal and Reynolds totally exposed, mugging away in charmless and clumsy fashion.