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The Nest

2020

Sean Durkin

Jude Law, Carrie Coon, Charlie Shotwell, Anne Reid ...

5.9

2,419

Drama. Thriller In the 1980s, an entrepreneur moves his American family back to the U.K. and into an old mansion house, a home that threatens to tear the family apart.

	Media	Author	Review
		Peter Debruge Variety	"Nine years after 'Martha Marcy May Marlene' (...) Durkin returns (...) with a movie that’s more challenging, and arguably more accomplished as well"
		Tim Grierson Screendaily	"A supremely uneasy drama (...) Sean Durkin has concocted what might appear to be a psychological horror film — albeit one without gore, scares or a bogeyman"
		Leslie Felperin The Hollywood Reporter	"A hyper-nuanced study of marriage mind games (...) Law, in excellent form here, nevertheless seems sometimes eclipsed by Coon"
		Benjamin Lee The Guardian	"It’s elegantly constructed and precisely composed, with Durkin painstakingly recreating an era without falling into nostalgic overload (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Jordan Raup The Film Stage	"'The Nest' may not reach the sustained highs of 'Martha Marcy May Marlene', but there’s still a great deal to admire in the way Durkin’s total mastery of composition and perspective carry through to the final shot."
		Justin Chang Los Angeles Times	"What makes Durkin’s vision so powerfully unsettling is its ease with ambiguity, its ability to make cruelty and tenderness seem like flip sides of the same human coin"
		Matt Zoller Seitz rogerebert.com	"A heartbreaking drama about a marriage on the rocks, featuring great performances and filmmaking. (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"
		Ben Kenigsberg The New York Times	"If Durkin’s writing doesn’t always match his formal flair, 'The Nest' has a bracing economy, cramming a lot into tight quarters."
		Mike D'Angelo AV Club	"'The Nest's true star is that cavernous 15th-century mansion, which provides Durkin and Erdély with endless opportunities to carve out sinister voids that threaten to swallow this nuclear family whole"
		Don Kaye Den of Geek	"[It] is worth watching purely for the performances by its two stars and for Durkin’s ability to generate a sense of impending doom in even mundane circumstances (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Richard Lawson Vanity Fair	"One of the best films of the year. Sean Durkin's drama is an acting showcase, and a sneakily profound musing on family"
		Ian Freer Empire	"[It] eschews conventional storytelling in favour of a sophisticated, more elliptical approach (...) It requires patience, but offers bountiful rewards (...) Performed to perfection by Law and Coon (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"

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