The Nightingale

"I don't usually like period pieces but I do love a good revenge story. To say that the character in this movie, Claire, was done wrong would be an understatement. Raped multiple times, her husband and child brutally murdered and she was left for dead. This woman deserves her revenge. And it was shaping up nicely. Her first kill on the man that actually killed her baby was particularly brutal. But I was disappointed that she didn't really get to exact her revenge on the others including the main antagonist, it was done for her. Overall, the movie is raw, tragic and depicts many ferocious atrocities that can be difficult to watch. This one won't be for everyone. 7.5/10"

"A brutal movie that is hard to watch so TW: there is SA, child murder, sexism, and racism in this movie so if any of these things are to much for you I say you skip this one. But I really thought through its brutality there was an interesting story of an unlikely friendship that forms through seeing each other’s humanity, and suffering and in turn helping one another. The camera work was hauntingly beautiful at times which paired well with the story being told and it has a very satisfying but very sad ending. Not something I’d watch again but I’m glad I did watch it at least once."

"Great movie"

"A revenge story set in the early 1800s of a woman and her companion who lost everything. Very graphic and raw portrayal of the ugliness of man. "

"I had to turn it off during the 3rd brutal, unnecessary rape scene. Overkill on the graphic scale."

"Holy ****. Did not finish. We gave up at the third brutal r@pe scene. A baby is flung against a wall. The main character doesn’t understand how she benefits from white privilege for the slice of film we watched. The restored language is beautiful, Mangana is wonderful beyond any hope of reciprocating kindness. But oh my god. We went in blind and this was unbearable."

"Hell bent revenge. Trigger warnings. Rape, abuse, gore."

"A movie with beautiful photography that deals with colonization, with many layers of oppression, strong themes that are not well used, because everything is very uneven. The story doesn't develop well, the focus ends up being much more on shocking scenes and some scenes of dreams and delusions, so it becomes repetitive and has conclusions that are poorly developed, even rushed, even though the movie is long."

"Possibly the greatest, grimmest, most beautiful, brutal, crushing and cathartic historical epic I’ve ever seen. Set in a criminally under-explored awe-inspiringly gorgeous, yet bone-chillingly gruesome colonial Australia among the prehistoric forests and burgeoning townships scattered in the vastness of the ancient Aboriginal Bush. The performances are spectacular, the cinematography could be ranked among timeless classics and it deserved every award it got and then some. A true modern classic."

"Who knew historical horror could be so…horrible. Beautifully acted. "