Parents' Guide to

Fingernails

By Stefan Pape, Common Sense Media Reviewer

age 14+

Sci-fi-drama about love has language, sex, body horror.

Movie R 2023 113 minutes
Fingernails movie poster: A faceless body wearing a short brown dress and a plaster on their finger lies down with someone's arms around them.

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Excellent

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Is It Any Good?

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This is a fine example of a filmmaker taking a hypothetical scenario that is semi-believable, and creating a truly unique and compelling sci-fi movie out of it. Directed and co-written by Christos Nikou, Fingernails plays with an intriguing original idea but never loses the attention of the audience. The world building is strong, too. It feels like a very relatable landscape and yet there's just something mildly different about it. It's off-realism, yet grounded by its very human and emotional themes. The performances are strong, which is no surprise given the cast includes Buckley, Ahmed, and White (fresh off the back of The Bear). To fully understand the conflict at the heart of the film, the two separate love interests need to feel real, and due to the talents of the actors, every dynamic is believable and the chemistry is unmistakable. This is a striking turn for Nikou who has proven himself to be a filmmaker with a clever mind -- and the execution to match. One to keep an eye on, for sure.

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