80
Movieline by Stephanie Zacharek
You don't have to believe all of it - or even any of it - to enjoy the rascally charms of Mr. Nice.
Mr. Nice
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- United Kingdom,
- Spain
- 2010
- · 121m
Director
Bernard Rose
Cast
Rhys Ifans,
Chloë Sevigny,
David Thewlis,
Luis Tosar,
Crispin Glover,
Omid Djalili
Genre
Comedy,
Crime,
Drama
A gripping biopic about 1970s Welsh marijuana trafficker Howard Marks, whose inventive smuggling schemes made him a huge success in the drug trade, as well as led to dealings with both the IRA and British Intelligence. Based on Marks' biography with the same title.
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75
New York Post by V.A. Musetto
You don't have to be stoned to watch Mr. Nice, but it might help to be in the same state of mind as its real-life anti-hero, drug kingpin Howard Marks.
75
San Francisco Chronicle by Mick LaSalle
Rhys Ifans is an engaging protagonist, playing Marks as a passive and seemingly unflappable character whose iron nerve and ability to keep cool in a crisis get him out of more than one desperate situation.
70
Village Voice
Though told here with appealing drollness, Marks's story makes an odd vessel for the filmmakers' casually advanced legalization arguments, what with its mischief making on the grandest scale possible.
70
Village Voice by Ben Mercer
Though told here with appealing drollness, Marks's story makes an odd vessel for the filmmakers' casually advanced legalization arguments, what with its mischief making on the grandest scale possible.
67
The A.V. Club by Noel Murray
The result is a film that's long and choppy, with little narrative momentum. And yet at times, Mr. Nice is frustratingly close to brilliant.
60
New York Daily News by Elizabeth Weitzman
So what we're left with is a sort of contact high, drifting gently over to our seats in the back row.
60
The New York Times by Stephen Holden
An affable throwback to those guilt-free days when hippie drug dealers radiated the glamorous aura of avant-garde heroes risking prison to spread the doctrine of liberation through cannabis.
60
Empire by Dan Jolin
A solid, often entertaining life-of-crimer which benefits from some stylistic touches and a faithful, convincing central performance.
58
Portland Oregonian by Shawn Levy
The film is built as a series of (possibly tall) tales that don't add up to a plot, a theme or a purpose.
50
Variety by Joe Leydon
Mildly amusing but overly discursive.
50
Slant Magazine by Chuck Bowen
Writer-director Bernard Rose effectively conjoures an atompshere of poetic stoned-1960s British rebellion, a feeling of woozy, intoxicating possibility that will not-so-eventually be squashed.
40
Time Out by Eric Hynes
This boppy biopic pushes a wealth of outrageous incidents while never making anything resembling a point.
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