Director Nikyatu Jusu’s haunting tale of immigrant sacrifice engulfs and beguiles.

An eerie, dreamlike drama of cultural displacement, class exploitation, and mythic surrealism...

The basic elements of Nanny have a lot of promise, but they’re not woven together very convincingly. Most of the tension arises from the portrayal of a very mundane nightmare.

Nanny is strongest when it dives into the social inequities between an immigrant single mom and her wealthy white employers... We get a rounded view of the employers, but it’s clear why Aisha [the protagonist] has a right to feel aggrieved.