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Andy Crump

'Nanny' review: The best elevated-horror debut since 'The Babadook'


There’s a simple trick to making slow-burn horror films where the scares lurk in the last 20 minutes: Tell a story that’s worth investing in for the other 70. Nanny, the first feature from Sierra Leonean-American director Nikyatu Jusu, tells a story so well that when the time comes for a genre to emerge from beneath her narrative’s surface the job looks surprisingly rushed.

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