“Jennifer Kent’s ‘The Nightingale’ will not attract the same cult following or breadth of widespread fan devotion as ‘The Babadook,’ but her latest marks significant progress in the filmmaker’s command of story and cinematic language.”
“‘The Nightingale’ is a rich and vivid work from a director whose bold vision accounts for its brutality.”
“‘Under the Shadow’ is an admirable film, albeit not wholly original.”
“Both films deal with maternal sexuality: The Boy punishes it and rebukes mothers for caring about anything other than their children, and The Babadook acknowledges it as difficult to balance with childcare, but an inescapable part of motherhood nonetheless.”
Q.V. Hough’s Top 10 Films of 2014