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A review by SWITCH.

60%
Written by SWITCH. on June 14, 2019

Even with its flaws, this feminist Western is too violent, too dirty, too bloody, and too barbaric to be forgotten easily. When the lights in the cinema came on, the woman next to me was crying and, a few rows over, someone murmured that they had now had PTSD. 'The Nightingale’ is not an easy film to watch and certainly not one to expect to come out of laughing or feeling terrific. But it will make you will feel something, which is a rare thing for a film to be able to do today. - Jake Watt

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A review by Manuel São Bento

80%
Written by Manuel São Bento on December 30, 2019

Jennifer Kent delivered one of the best horror movies of the decade, The Babadook. With The Nightingale, only her second feature film, she offers one of the most visually brutal, shocking, jaw-dropping, violent revenge stories ever. This movie is the definition of “not for everyone.”

Rating: A-

A review by Stephen Campbell

80%
Written by Stephen Campbell on December 14, 2019

A superb, albeit harrowing drama about colonial violence, misogyny, and racism

Whether the Blacks deserve any mercy at the hands of the pioneering squatters is an open question, but that they get none is certain. They are a doomed race, and before many years they will be completely wiped out of the land.

  • Harold Finch-Hatton; Advance Australia! An Account of Eight Year's Work, Wandering and Amusement in Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria (1885)

If Judas Chamberlain can find a black, or brown or yellow race in Asia or Africa, that has as high a standard of civilisat... read the rest.

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