Kent's deglamorized, relentlessly unpleasant depiction of suffering couldn't be further from the adolescent glee of Tarantino's films. Still, there's something vaguely two-faced about Kent's revenge narrative.

| Mar 10, 2020

Jennifer Kent's The Nightingale is a film that bruises the soul.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 6, 2019

It's impressive.

| Dec 4, 2019

It's serious film-making, worthy of attention. Arguments, though, will ensue.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 3, 2019

The most shocking thing about this shocking film? When it was over, I felt like I'd been released from a warm hug.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 2, 2019

Like the world she depicts, Kent's storytelling shows no mercy.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 30, 2019

An extraordinary film, powered by political and historical fury.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 30, 2019

While she ruthlessly exposes the unexpiated atrocities in Australia's past, Kent has smartly pillaged all the old horseback conventions to do her bidding. But she's halfway stuck within them, too.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 29, 2019

The power and sheer command of Kent's direction enforced this film's grip on me, along with the fluency and urgency of her storytelling...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 29, 2019

A fearless, breathtaking masterpiece.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 27, 2019

The flaws of The Nightingale should not stop you from seeing it - a film as painful as vital conversations often are.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 27, 2019

Not for the faint-hearted - and even the tough-hearted might struggle in a few places. But this uncompromising, unflinching meditation on violence should be seen as widely as possible.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 26, 2019

A powerful, emotionally shattering experience, and one of the most memorable movies so far this year.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Sep 10, 2019

"The Nightingale" dials into unadulterated rage, while also telling a story of tolerance and understanding. It's a balancing act Kent manages gracefully, and "The Nightingale" is a story that's not easy to shake.

| Original Score: A- | Aug 30, 2019

One of the most powerful films yet seen about the country's colonial foundation and the cruelties that were an indelible part of it.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 28, 2019

The Nightingale is a staggeringly powerful denouncement of the very worst aspects of colonialism - and also a moving portrait of a woman determined to seek justice in a world controlled by domineering men.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 27, 2019

The Nightingale is deft at displaying the ways colonialism affects varying cultural and minority groups differently.

| Aug 26, 2019

Every single frame is dripping with authenticity.

| Original Score: A- | Aug 26, 2019

The pleasure of this movie is slowly watching [Aisling Franciosi and Baykali Ganambarr] find their common ground, and Jennifer Kent doesn't make it easy for either of them in any step of the way.

| Aug 23, 2019

"The Nightingale" is an alarmingly bleak and simmering revenge tale woven together with unrepentant violence and continual suffering under colonial and patriarchal oppression.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 21, 2019