The Nice Guys

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The Nice Guys

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2016

1h 56m

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Comedy

Mystery & Thriller

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Holland March (Ryan Gosling) is a down-on-his-luck private eye in 1977 Los Angeles. Jackson Healy (Russell Crowe) is a hired enforcer who hurts people for a living. Fate turns them into unlikely partners after a young woman named Amelia (Margaret Qualley) mysteriously disappears. Healy and March soon learn the hard way that some dangerous people are also looking for Amelia. Their investigation takes them to dark places as anyone else who gets involved in the case seems to wind up dead.

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Critics Consensus

The Nice Guys hearkens back to the buddy comedies of a bygone era while adding something extra courtesy of a knowing script and the irresistible chemistry of its leads.

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Victoria Luxford

BBC.com

May 4, 2023

4/5

(Crowe and Gosling are brilliant together in something that sends up their tough guy images.

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K. Austin Collins

The Ringer

Aug 10, 2017

What's memorable about The Nice Guys is the crew of not-so-nice kids: the 12- through 18-year-olds who seem remarkably unbothered when bumping heads with coke-addled pornographers.

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Nigel Andrews

Financial Times

Dec 27, 2016

3/5

Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe are a good match in The Nice Guys. But writer-director Shane Black's screenplay seldom strikes fire.

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Matt Oakes

Silver Screen Riot

Oct 14, 2026

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'The Nice Guys' is a nearly flawless seminar in action comedy as Shane Black schools the industry with righteous aplomb, paying lip service to its weathered idolatry with a sardonic smile.

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Don Shanahan

Every Movie Has a Lesson

Jul 23, 2025

3/5

Though it can veer off of the rails to some scatterbrained wheel-spinning that pushes limits of tolerance and believability, the screenplay delivers its muckraking mystery with a canny enough level of perpetual action and a clever humor.

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Niall Browne

Movies in Focus

Jul 21, 2025

4/5

A wonderful slice of entertainment, The Nice Guys is Shane Black doing what he does best. The film riffs on his previous back catalogue, mixing in a 1970s groove to keep things feeling fresh.

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SIMAS C

@simas_eros Oct 19, 2026

It’s not exactly an erotic film, but it deals with an affair behind the scenes of the 1970s porn industry. It’s a light comedy with some action and good leads, though it lacks any significant substance.

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Anna H

@Anna-halbert Oct 18, 2026

A decent movie, few laughs but don’t think I’d recommend.

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Jon P

@JonPop Oct 12, 2026

Entertaining. Crowe and Gosling have chemistry.

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Michael P

@RT94302031 Sep 25, 2026

Boring. Boring. Boring. No storyline. Slow moving. Just because it is set in the 70s doesn't mean it has to be a Boring 70s movie.

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Robert T

@Robertodeeto Sep 16, 2026

Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe are basically two human train wrecks stumbling through 1970s Los Angeles, accidentally solving a mystery while fucking up just about everything else along the way. The dialogue is filthy, fast, and gloriously stupid in exactly the right way. Gosling's physical comedy alone deserves its own goddamn trophy. Every time you think he can't possibly make things more ridiculous, he finds a way. And Crowe plays the perfect exhausted bastard opposite him, like a guy who desperately wants to maintain some dignity while the universe keeps handing him Ryan Gosling. The result is a buddy detective movie with bullets, booze, conspiracies, broken bones, and enough dick jokes to make your inner twelve-year-old stand up and applaud. The Nice Guys doesn't reinvent the buddy-cop movie. It just gets drunk, punches it in the face, steals its wallet, and makes you laugh while doing it. Fuck subtlety. Give me more movies like this.

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Luke F

@RT90501803 Sep 8, 2026

So good I thought it was Tarantino

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Synopsis

Holland March (Ryan Gosling) is a down-on-his-luck private eye in 1977 Los Angeles. Jackson Healy (Russell Crowe) is a hired enforcer who hurts people for a living. Fate turns them into unlikely partners after a young woman named Amelia (Margaret Qualley) mysteriously disappears. Healy and March soon learn the hard way that some dangerous people are also looking for Amelia. Their investigation takes them to dark places as anyone else who gets involved in the case seems to wind up dead.

Director: Shane Black
Producer: Joel Silver
Screenwriter: Shane Black, Anthony Bagarozzi
Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures
Production Co: Silver Pictures, Waypoint Entertainment, RatPac-Dune Entertainment
Rating: R (Language|Brief Drug Use|Nudity|Sexuality|Violence)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): May 20, 2016, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 9, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA): $36.2M
Runtime: 1h 56m

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