The Nightingale's reviews
Media reviews
Variety
Kent?s elemental revenge tale attains a near-mythic grandeur over the course of its arduous, ravishing trek. Some stricter editing wouldn?t go amiss, particularly in a needlessly baggy, to-and-fro finale, but it?s a pretty magnificent mass of movie.
Indiewire
Acclaimed filmmakers often face the challenge of big expectations on their second features, but Kent joins the ranks of sophomore filmmakers whose new movies expand on their debuts in startlingly ambitious ways.
The Playlist
With all this evocative material available it?s unfortunate that Kent lavishes so much of the overgenerous runtime on repetitive and redundant plotting.
The Hollywood Reporter
If The Nightingale doesn?t quite fulfill the high expectations for Kent?s sophomore feature, it still shows a director with a muscular handle on her craft, though in this case she could have used a script collaborator to address the weaknesses.
The Guardian
Weaving themes of colonialism and class into the broad strokes of a won?t-stop-can?t-stop revenge potboiler, the film marks a step forward for the Australian director in terms of ambition and scope. In execution, however, the songbird hits a few false notes.
Festival Internacional de Cine de Lanzarote