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Connie Ogle, Miami Herald: Tedious interpretation of the famous girl detective's adventures. Nancy Drew falls somewhere between The Haunted Mansion and the live-action Scooby Doo movies in terms of quality but is more irritating than either. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: This Nancy is a throwback, but a charming one, and Roberts (Julia Roberts' niece) plays her with an irresistible sweetness. Read more
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: The film itself is more nice than good, but nice isn't the worst trait. Read more
David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture: It's one of the few tween movies that isn't in your face; its limpness becomes appealing. Read more
Chicago Reader: The postmodernist evocations of the past (roughly the 50s through the 80s) are a charming mishmash, delivered with wit and style. Read more
Scott Tobias, AV Club: Once the rote mystery elements take over, the film devolves into a second-rate whodunit for kids, but even then, Roberts' irrepressible cheeriness and curiosity in the face of danger proves too adorable to resist. Read more
Bill Muller, Arizona Republic: Nancy Drew is a lark but nothing more, asking little from the audience while it flits from scene to scene. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: Roberts is pleasant enough but, like her fellow TV-bred teen stars, there's not a lot of there yet, let alone enough to suggest a corn-fed Sherlock Holmes. Read more
Carina Chocano, Los Angeles Times: I think it's the most radical thing I've seen so far this summer. Read more
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle: Fleming's movie doesn't fuss much with originality or storytelling logic but it does play nice from beginning to end, its positive messages bundled up with self-aware humor and empowered feminine pep. Read more
Tom Charity, CNN.com: Crisply put together but just passably amusing, the movie is innocuous, light, and -- obviously -- very, very slight. Read more
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: So tepid that even Nancy Drew loyalists may take a pass on any further cinematic adventures. Read more
Michael Booth, Denver Post: A refreshingly kind and calm PG film that no one will be ashamed to see. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: Hardly heart-racing stuff. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: Why does a movie so dolled up with oodles of stylistic doodles fall so flat? Read more
Christy Lemire, Associated Press: The immensely likable Roberts... happens to be the best part of the film from director and co-writer Andrew Fleming, which offers a few laughs here and there but is otherwise contrived, cliched and stiff. Read more
Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: Could show a lot of 12-year-olds how much fun movies once were when they weren't compelled to prove their cool. Read more
Mario Tarradell, Dallas Morning News: [Roberts is] a natural in front of the camera, so warm and cute you're instantly charmed. Nancy Drew works largely because of Ms. Roberts. Read more
Jan Stuart, Newsday: This Nancy is indistinguishable from every other Teen Vogue cheerleader tapped by Hollywood for role model of the month over the last 20 years. Casting agents, are there no budding Jodie Fosters in the entirety of America's high school drama clubs? Read more
Anthony Lane, New Yorker: I doubt if any female over the age of twelve would get much pleasure from the film. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: None of the dialogue is particularly pointed, and the supposed Hollywood mean teens seem rather tame. (One of their big pranks involves stealing Nancy's cupcake.) Read more
Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: The film's and Nancy's nonjudgmental tone gives it a distinctly modern feel. Read more
Lou Lumenick, New York Post: A well-written and in many ways pleasing update of a character who has endured in print for 78 years. Read more
Rex Reed, New York Observer: Send your teenagers to Nancy Drew if you're seeking an effective revenge for all their MTV TiVo's. It's a movie with the charisma of gangrene. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: If Nancy Drew is the start of a new franchise, parents and kids alike should rejoice. Read more
Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer: What's not to like about a girl detective who is a good citizen and better student, a leader rather than a follower, a resourceful seamstress who won't cut her clothes to fit this year's fashions? Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: The characters undergo nothing that could be remotely associated with development, the mystery is wafer-thin, and the slight plot is stretched to the breaking point in order to fill out 95 minutes. Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: In many ways, it's steadfastly adult, a picture that admits, with every frame, a desire to hang on to everything we value about traditional modes of movie storytelling, instead of just trying to figure out what will win big at the box office. Read more
Ruthe Stein, San Francisco Chronicle: Director Andrew Fleming loses his footing trying to shoehorn Nancy into contemporary times. It's a bad fit, reminiscent of Woody Allen's short story about a professor who whisks Madame Bovary into modern-day Manhattan. Read more
Bill Zwecker, Chicago Sun-Times: Overall, it feels lame. A disappointing revival of a classic character. Read more
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: An awkward mixture of send-up and formula kid's comedy that's only marginally better than the Olsen twins direct-to-video detective series. Read more
Susan Walker, Toronto Star: This Nancy Drew, not too sappy and not at all snappy, looks fully prepared for the next instalment. Read more
Anna Smith, Time Out: 'Nancy Drew' still has a televisual feel - more 'Murder, She Wrote' than junior 'Marple'. Read more
Lael Loewenstein, Variety: Purportedly an attempt to modernize the young detective's adventures for a new generation of tweens, the pic instead serves up stale mystery-movie cliches and overcooked red herrings in a thoroughly wooden adaptation. Read more
J. Hoberman, Village Voice: Unavoidably arch but essentially playful in its wit, Nancy Drew neither wears out its welcome nor compromises its heroine. Read more
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: Nancy Drew manages to navigate the era of cellphones and Mean Girls with retro nostalgia and wholesomeness, making it a rare girl-powered outing for tweens in an otherwise guy-centric summer. Read more