The casting is perfect.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 9, 2025

The Nest’s slow build-up may leave you craving more, but the fantastic performances from Law and Coon, and Durkin’s brilliant direction, will more than make up for it.

| Original Score: B | Apr 23, 2024

It’s been almost 10 years since we last saw Sean Durkin bring us a new project, and with this welcomed return, we get a dark look at the American dream...

| Apr 4, 2024

The Nest is perhaps the first COVID-19/quarantine film without meaning to be. Its levels of isolation are deeply felt and highlighted by the lies we tell ourselves or the ones whom we hold most dear.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 2, 2022

Its thrills are muted and the horror is of a deeply human nature.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 24, 2022

It’s not ghosts that haunt the O’Haras though. It’s lies and deception. Things unravel, not with any dramatic acceleration, but with a lingering inevitability.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 15, 2022

... A mature and complex reflection on the culture of appearances, and the hoax behind a supposedly perfect and successful family, so seemingly happy they make you want to puke. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jun 22, 2022

Some moments stretch disbelief, such as Rorys discussion with the worlds wisest cab driver. However, The Nests use of tangible fears and unsettling tone make for a drama that will rattle around in your head for days.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 3, 2022

Durkin finds a kind of acceptance for his characters, just as his viewers must accept that The Nest isn't a closed book of a film.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 17, 2022

It's a slow-burn, but it burns nonetheless and the eerie music steps aside occasionally for some excellent '80s bangers.

| Dec 17, 2021

I watched The Nest in a fixed state of unease, shoulders tense and set forward even in a plush cinema seat, my mouth immediately drying out after each sip of my drink.

| Nov 12, 2021

Director Sean Durkin previously made Martha Marcy May Marlene, and he once again finds the same sense of cinematic unease that made that film so brilliantly unnerving.

| Nov 11, 2021

There's plenty of atmosphere and an interesting set-up, but hints at malevolence afoot lose their momentum and the early promise winds up nowhere

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 13, 2021

Earthy and intriguing, this intensely personal drama has a terrific balance of humour and darkness, keeping the audience on edge with a subtle sense of foreboding.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 2, 2021

There's something commendably old fashioned and decidedly unassuming about The Nest. Durkin's direction is both precise and admirably restrained in its depiction of an era famed for its excesses.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 2, 2021

Love is an impenetrable thing for the O'Haras - which makes every begrudging attempt at it even more fascinating to watch in this riveting, reluctant family portrait.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 1, 2021

A psychological drama about the 'get rich quick' attitude of the 1980s and the damage it caused.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 29, 2021

Coon's performance and the film's clammy atmosphere are more interesting than the story's psychology.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 29, 2021

The Nest is a belated cautionary tale - this tainted family is a skeleton in the closet of our current socioeconomic climate.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 29, 2021

A cautionary tale told with an unflinching gaze that suits the boldness of the decade in which it is set. It fairly whizzes by, compellingly, gruesomely, fascinating.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 28, 2021