Some movies, mostly to do with how they’re marketed, keep the audience guessing as to what the hell it is, exactly, right up until the moment the lights go down or they click the play button. Horror movies do better business, so the ads tend to play up the horror element in movies that aren’t […]

With Nanny, Nikyatu Jusu presents a more haunting depiction of the American Dream. Her feature debut nods to Ousmane Sembène’s seminal Black Girl while distilling the trials her parents, immigrants from Sierra Leone, endured as Jusu grew up in Atlanta—a mix of domestic drama and frightening images to make us fellow outsiders in a suffocatingly

While its horror elements and overall structure lack gratification, the woman at its center, and the submergence into the spirit of her being, make it a poignant, wonderfully personal character study.

Nikyatu Jusu's thriller mixes the plight of an immigrant domestic worker with African myth to deliver a powerful, reality twisting fable of our time

Anna Diop and Michelle Monaghan star in Nanny, a compelling immigrant story full of horror-movie visions and racial tension in the spirit of Get Out and His House. Debuts in theaters Nov. 23; streaming on Amazon Video Dec. 16.

Part slow-burn immigrant drama, part supernatural horror, Nanny is a spectacular dismantling of the American Dream.

Nikyatu Jusu's haunting debut follows a woman trying to make it in a world not built for her.

SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2022 REVIEW! Nanny is the debut feature film from writer-director Nikyatu Jusu. It tells a familiar tale of immigrants being exploited without real recourse. But it is also a story about those having to leave their families behind to support them by taking care of other people far from home. It interweaves a psychological

Star Anna Diop and director Nikyatu Jusu give horror fans a taste of their talents in this compelling film about the immigrant experience in the U.S.

Writer-director Nikyatu Jusu’s 'Nanny' ultimately proposes that survival is the greatest form of resistance.