The Nightingale

IFC Films | Release Date: August 2, 2019

6.8	USER SCORE Generally favorable reviews based on 70 Ratings

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Stryker_777Nov 9, 2019

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I was disappointed with the direction of the plot. Instead of a satisfying conclusion to Clare's revenge mission, the writing loses direction and tries too hard to force a moral message down your throat, while throwing away the movie's potential as a horror movie.
We understand the oppression of the blacks, it is shown clearly as the grisly and realistic backdrop for this movie. We get it. But then it becomes all about the Aborigines and about social justice. It's really trite. The movie starts out in one direction, then totally changes the subject and loses focus and really unravels towards the ending.
The final scene on the beach is especially pointless and doesn't give us any closure.
I was expecting and hoping for the ending to be so different.
I was really hoping for Clare to hunt down the Lt... and then engage in a riveting cat and mouse game, where she is so crazed and traumatized she becomes a vicious killer, as if she is the villain in the movie and the Lt. becomes this helpless victim. This would have been a far more thought-provoking and intriguing premise. This is what the movie is about.. the cruel power of REVENGE. Why not stick to this theme? Why let it become another predictable commentary about social justice? Why the virtue signaling? If there's one thing I can't stand about movies is a safe, predictable ending with black-and-white morality. Good wins over evil. Oppression is bad. Yawn. No subtlety. What a letdown.

Also, most reviews talk about this movie as if it's some horrifying, shocking graphic display that's way too brutal for most viewers. I didn't find it very shocking at all, I've seen far worse. The gruesome part of this movie is drastically overstated in reviews.… Expand

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JLauSep 25, 2020

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Irish convict is raped, has her husband and baby killed in front of her so tracks down the culprit, follows him across the country in order to....do absolutely nothing to him.… Expand

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