Nightingale

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Season 1
  • Network: HBO
  • Series Premiere Date: Jan 1, 2015
Metascore
67

Generally favorable reviews - based on 13 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 13
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 13
  3. Negative: 1 out of 13

Critic Reviews

  1. Slant Magazine
    Reviewed by: Chuck Bowen
    May 26, 2015
    38
    Nightingale is tediously literal-minded and anal-retentively "worked out." There's something stiflingly theoretical about the movie.

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User Score
6.1

Generally favorable reviews- based on 10 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 10
  3. Negative: 2 out of 10
  1. googolendtimes
    Sep 18, 2015
    8
    A somewhat pretentious but brutally effective drama, "Nightingale" succeeds on the strength of a riveting and quite heartbreaking performanceA somewhat pretentious but brutally effective drama, "Nightingale" succeeds on the strength of a riveting and quite heartbreaking performance by David Oyelowo whose heartbreaking and nuanced portrayal of Peter Snowden is compulsively and often disturbingly mesmeric.… Full Review »
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