The Nan Movie

The Nan Movie was released on 18 March 2022 in 514 cinemas across the United Kingdom and Ireland.[10] The film's theatrical gross on 4 May 2022 was $2,165,386.[11]

The film received a resoundingly negative reception from critics.[12] On review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, The Nan Movie has an approval rating of 0%, based on 13 reviews.[13] The Guardian described it as "brutally unfunny",[14] giving it one star out of five, The Telegraph as being "as interminable as it is revolting",[15] also awarding 1/5, while the monthly film magazine Empire was slightly more positive, calling it "a mostly unfunny attempt to wring long-form laughs from a character who works better in short doses",[16] awarding 2/5.

Bleeding Cool commented on the film's disjointed narrative,[17] with the flashback scenes described as "a thoughtful, beautifully shot period piece set in London during the war", while the much more dominant present-day plot is a "dull-looking road trip from London to Ireland filled with boring, tedious irrelevant distractions that hurt the brain." The site's original review of The Nan Movie was entitled "Finding A Much Better Film Within",[18] and commented on how no director is credited despite collaboration from Josie Rourke, who has previously directed historical dramas and stage plays. The Guardian's critic also commented on the relative quality of the flashbacks as compared to the other material.

The later article states that, according to its sources, when the original cut of the film was presented to its backers in 2019, the backers were uncomfortable with the wartime storyline. They requested that it be heavily cut to accommodate much more of the present-day plot with the elderly Joan Taylor, whom fans of The Catherine Tate Show will recognise. A good deal more of this material was then cheaply and hastily shot to replace the cut footage.