75
Baltimore Sun by Chris Kaltenbach
A more honest version of "Summer of '42."
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50
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.
50
Christian Science Monitor by David Sterritt
The acting is amiable but the story isn't much deeper than the callow main characters.
50
San Francisco Chronicle by Edward Guthmann
Sweet and harmless -- a beach movie in more ways than one -- but it doesn't run awfully deep.
75
New York Daily News by Elizabeth Weitzman
Director Gay deals so honestly with the boys' emotions, it's almost a revelation when compared to Hollywood fabrications.
20
Everyone will be indifferent, as indifferent and uncaring as the characters the film portrays.
88
The film is rightfully carried by Nico and Dani and under Gay's artful helmsmanship it's carried with remarkable sympathy and believability.
80
Los Angeles Times by Kevin Thomas
An exceptional coming-of-age film--subtle, humorous, compassionate, acutely perceptive.
75
Portland Oregonian by Kim Morgan
Delivers the oft-trod subject of boys' sexuality with intelligence and freshness.
58
Seattle Post-Intelligencer by Sean Axmaker
Rambling and easygoing, Nico and Dani is a modest but frank look at adolescent lust, both heterosexual and homosexual.