A faithful, if abbreviated, retelling of Charles Dickens' novel, Nicholas Nickleby doesn't bring much new to the period drama, but it's still a more compelling story than we ordinarily see at the movie theater these days.
This extremely troubling but brilliantly mounted drama about a young Jewish man driven to anti-Semitic violence is anything but a fun Saturday at the movies, but it is a thought-provoking film with exceptional performances.