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See this movie, if you have the ‘Nerve’

Dan Webster

Now that it's clear that "Nerve" opens today, you might want to know what some of the nation's critics are saying about the horror flick starring Julia Roberts' niece, Emma.

Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times: " 'Mr. Robot' meets 'Battle Royale'… a neon-saturated teenage dream, high on first kisses and digital hearts."

Jeanette Catsoulis, New York Times: "[The] screenplay … amounts to little more than a string of flashy stunts before fizzling to a contrived close. For all its hints at imminent catastrophe, 'Nerve' feels surprisingly tame."

Owen Gleiberman, Variety: " 'Nerve,' let's be clear, isn't a movie to take seriously, yet its fast lunge at topicality — the way it uses the contest at its center as a lightning-rod metaphor for how young adults interact in the digital age — is part of what's fun about it."

And just for good measure:

David Ehrlich, indieWIRE: "Blisteringly cool one moment and ridiculously silly the next, this punchy and propulsive late-summer surprise is able to capture the way we live now because it displays such a vivid understanding of the reasons why we live that way."