Not long ago, the title “Nowhere Boy” seemed to accurately capture where the film stood in the awards picture: nowhere. But after some key in-flight showings on British Airways, and given the ...

“Nowhere Boy” is about a love triangle that involves John Lennon, but he’s the least interesting of the angles. It’s a triangle I don’t remember ever seeing in a movie… ...

Nowhere Boy found an emotional heart that rang true with that mother-son relationship, which is something traditional musical biopics often struggle with. Of course, there’s no telling what the ...

Nowhere Boy, which was written by Matt Greengalgh (Control) and directed by first-timer Sam Taylor-Wood, uses a variety of books, news sources and first-hand accounts (including the memoirs of ...

"Nowhere Boy" is about John before he was fab -- back when he was just John Winston Lennon of Menlove Avenue, Liverpool. Back when he had something to say, and nobody to listen.

"Nowhere Boy" stars Aaron Johnson, Kristin Scott Thomas and Ann-Marie Duff — all outstanding — as, respectively, the adolescent John Lennon, the aunt who raised him and the erratic mother ...

There are so many ways in which “Nowhere Boy,” an emotionally raw and yet raucous, rockin’ riff on John Lennon’s turbulent teenage years, is such an entertaining piece of nostalgia. As we ...

There are so many ways in which “Nowhere Boy,” an emotionally raw and yet raucous, rockin’ riff on John Lennon’s turbulent teenage years, is such an entertaining piece of nostalgia. As we ...

There are so many ways in which “Nowhere Boy,” an emotionally raw and yet raucous, rockin’ riff on John Lennon’s turbulent teenage years, is such an entertaining piece of nostalgia. As we ...

In the case of "Nowhere Boy," Aaron Johnson is playing the teenage, pre-Beatles John Lennon in mid-1950s Liverpool, and the setting is unfamiliar enough to skirt most of the standard biopic problems.

Kick-Ass star Aaron Johnson plays John Lennon in the 1950s-set film, which follows the young singer’s often troubled relationships with the mother who abandoned him (Anne-Marie Duff) and the ...