There are brutal scenes with razor blades and other impromptu devices of erotic torment, but what makes the movie a trial to sit through isn't just the heroine's pain-freak tastes.
In short, this is a movie about bruised people bruising each other, and if Downloading Nancy had more of an openly pulpy sensibility, then the repugnant premise might’ve had some lasting impact.
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VarietyTodd McCarthy
VarietyTodd McCarthy
On a moment to moment basis, however, picture continuously skirts very close to the ludicrous in its advanced-stage grimness and outre forms of torture foreplay.
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Film Threat
Film Threat
Downloading Nancy is an excruciating experience.
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San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
Ill conceived and unworthy (and dull and ridiculous).
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The Hollywood ReporterKirk Honeycutt
The Hollywood ReporterKirk Honeycutt
The Swedish video and commercial director seeks artistic adventure but winds up with pointless self-indulgence.
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New York Daily NewsJoe Neumaier
New York Daily NewsJoe Neumaier
Unpleasantly icy film based on a true story.
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Village Voice
Village Voice
The jump cuts and nonlinear narrative are gratuitously stylish, and when you peel away this film's complex performances, at the core of its drawn-out suicide spectacle is pain so extreme, so alienating, and, in the end, so pointless.