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'The Nightingale' review: The woman behind 'The Babadook' goes even darker with brutal revenge drama

Compared to the explosion of revenge-fantasy gore near the end of Quentin Tarantino's "Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood," served as dessert after a long, leisurely meal of beautiful, expensive nostalgia, the sensibility of a truly grown-up filmmaker such as Australia's Jennifer Kent has a way of showing Tarantino for what he is, at heart and behind the camera: a highly talented 56-year-old boy. Love it, like it, hate it, whatever, "Hollywood"

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