Storyline
Rory is an ambitious entrepreneur who brings his American wife and kids to his native country, England, to explore new business opportunities. After abandoning the sanctuary of their safe American suburban surroundings, the family is plunged into the despair of an archaic '80s Britain and their unaffordable new life in an English manor house threatens to destroy the family.
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Cast
Michael Culkin, Jude Law, Wendy Crewson, Adeel Akhtar, Anne Reid, Carrie Coon, Charlie Shotwell, Bernardo Santos, Julian Ferro, Michel Alexandre Gonzalez, Oona Roche, James Nelson-Joyce, Polly Allen, Kaisa Hammarlund, Marcus Cornwall, Andrei Alén, Tommy Surridge, Leo Ayres, Aimee Lenihan, Oliver Gatz, Francesco Piacentini-Smith, Kylie Lenihan, David Flanagan
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Reviews
100
The Nest is a somber, grown-up sort of movie, made with remarkable poise and maturity, and a level of craft so compelling it can be difficult to tear your eyes from the screen.
91
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.
80
It’s elegantly constructed and precisely composed, with Durkin painstakingly recreating an era without falling into nostalgic overload. But it’s also a drama about a family that keeps us at a distance for the most part.
80
The Nest lingers long after the final credits. It may not have the same surprising newness that juiced the debut of Martha Marcy, but it casts an ineffable spell nevertheless.
80
Perhaps not surprisingly, the movie works better as a free-floating societal critique — of materialism, of so-called domestic tranquillity — than as an incisive commentary on any of the topics it brushes up against. But The Nest’s atmosphere of animosity is palpable enough that it’s wicked fun simply watching the O’Haras become unglued.
