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

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

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

This is a film that swerves away from categorisation.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 27, 2021

The movie ploughs ahead through three acts of delicious torture.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 27, 2021

The Nest does, at least, give Law and Coon free rein to tear into their roles like lions into a fresh kill.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 26, 2021

It's a slippery mood piece which tantalises by imploding on purpose.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 26, 2021

Despite his ninnyish image, Law can be a fine actor. Here, his character flawed and cocksure, he proves exactly that.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 25, 2021

The Nest has the trappings of a haunted-house movie but delivers something much scarier - the slow death of a marriage, performed to perfection by Jude Law and Carrie Coon.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 24, 2021

What makes Durkin's vision so powerfully unsettling is its ease with ambiguity, its ability to make cruelty and tenderness seem like flip sides of the same human coin.

| Feb 21, 2021

You could easily spend the next decade trying to decode its themes.

| Original Score: B+ | Feb 21, 2021

As a statement on a decade of consumerism, The Nest doesn't have anything particularly new to say, but as a fable of familial dysfunction, it's resonant and, yes, frightening, with nary a ghost in sight.

| Feb 21, 2021

As he proved with 'Martha Marcy May Marlene', Durkin is a master of tone, and 'The Nest' is another finely calibrated mood piece.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 21, 2021

The payoff for this expert exercise in tonal control may not be sufficiently satisfying, yet it feels in keeping with a story in which there's nothing outwardly wrong with this family - but something's clearly not right.

| Feb 21, 2021

It's more adult, absorbing and carefully made than most current releases, and the central subject -- how a preoccupation with status or material success can lead to disaster -- may well feel uncomfortably close to home.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 3, 2021

Not a lot of storytellers working in movies today take the time to lay the emotional foundation of each character. Durkin does, and when his characters crack, the destruction feels all the more pronounced.

| Dec 3, 2020

It's pure pleasure to watch a film like The Nest, which is scary for all the right reasons and leaves you feeling unsettled at the end.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Nov 20, 2020

Durkin builds his discerning observations on a dramatic foundation that's no less unchallenged, and no less rickety, than the social fictions on which it depends.

| Nov 20, 2020

Even after it's over, "The Nest" continues to build.

| Original Score: B+ | Nov 20, 2020

The film never overstates itself as it reaches a memorable conclusion.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 19, 2020