2022 · horror · drama
Nanny
Directed by Nikyatu Jusu1h 38m2022
Aisha, a Senegalese immigrant who takes a job as a nanny for a wealthy white family in New York City, finds herself consumed by unsettling visions and a growing rage.
Our read: Nanny (2022) reads as a heavy, measured, inventive horror · drama entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Heavy, measured, measured horror / drama, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, measured.
- heavy
- measured
- intense
- inventive
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How Nanny feels to watch.
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What watching it is actually like.
“You want immigrant grief and folklore dread simmering beneath a Manhattan nanny job.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if slow-burn psychological horror and drowning despair feel too heavy tonight.
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