<em>The Nightingale</em> Is a Harrowing but Worthy Watch
Jennifer Kent’s latest film is an intriguing follow-up to <em>The Babadook</em>—a powerful tale of revenge, and a period piece unsoftened by genre trappings.
Hawkins, the cruel British military officer who looms over Jennifer Kent’s new film, , doesn’t give reasons for the several atrocities he commits over the course of the film. Only near the end, after murdering someone who wouldn’t stop pleading for his life, does he finally offer the flimsiest of explanations. “I just can’t stand all the fucking noise,” he whines. And yet Hawkins (played by Sam
