Reviews

• Hopefully, the girls who see Nancy Drew this summer will take their cues from the smart, engaged, intellectually curious character Roberts so charmingly portrays.

  Carina Chocano - Los Angeles Times
  
  19 January 2013

• 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.

  Ann Hornaday - The Washington Post
  
  19 January 2013

• The culprit, I'd say, is the uninteresting casting of Miss Roberts in the title role. She's a pleasant enough performer, but her made-for-teen-TV acting style, a perky blandness, doesn't supply a clue as to the appeal of Nancy Drew after all these years.

  Lisa Schwarzbaum - Entertainment Weekly
  
  19 January 2013

• The mystery of Nancy Drew' is how a movie can get so many things right -- particularly the inspired casting of Emma Roberts as the spunky teenage sleuth -- yet ultimately disappoint.

  Ruthe Stein - The San Francisco Chronicle
  
  19 January 2013

• The movie's fodder for tweener girls with indiscriminate Nick TV addictions, but there's just enough wit on display to make you realize it could have been worse.

  Ty Burr - The Boston Globe
  
  19 January 2013