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Film Reviews: 'Only Beautiful Things to Look At' and 'Night Nurse'

Updated 2026-07-11 09:55 UTC 1 source Neutral

Two new films have been reviewed. 'Only Beautiful Things to Look At' explores the fashions of 1980s Czechoslovakia, while 'Night Nurse' is a dark comedy about a caretaker entangled in her patient's criminal activities.

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Variety

‘Night Nurse’ Review: Two Perverts Join Forces in a Gloriously Deviant Oddity About a Caretaker Drawn Into Her Patient’s Grifting Games

From the moment we meet luxury nursing-home patient Douglas (Bruce McKenzie), we feel something is up. The knowing sparkle in his baby-blue eyes; his slender gold chain and tufts of chest hair poking out of his medical jammies; his low, measured drawl — is it the voice of a former player who knows h

2026-07-11 09:39 UTC

Variety

‘Only Beautiful Things to Look At’ Review: A Handsome but Muffled Portrait of State-Sanctioned Cruelty

The fashions and furnishings of Czechoslovakia in the 1980s — the height of the state’s racist program of suppressing the Roma population through coerced sterilization — are painstakingly evoked in Slovakian filmmaker Ivan Ostrochovský’s “Only Beautiful Things to Look At.” Bu

2026-07-11 09:46 UTC