“How hard could it be?”īut once Kate arrives at the foreboding estate, she soon realizes she has more to deal with than her precocious charge, the sunny second-grader Flora (“ The Florida Project” star Brooklynn Prince). “I’m going from 25 screaming kids to one little girl,” she tells her skeptical roommate. (This is an extremely different nannying gig than the one Davis had in “Tully.”) The setting has been updated to the somber spring of 1994, as we see from television coverage of Kurt Cobain’s death, but Kate is nothing but upbeat. Initially, though, Mackenzie Davis is full of optimism as Kate, a kindergarten teacher excited about her new job as a live-in instructor and governess for a young orphan. Then there’s that ending, which feels like a sudden shriek, and a shrug. But the imagery eventually grows repetitive-you can only see so many skittering spiders and severed doll heads-and the talented supporting performers reach a limit as to what they can convey about their characters in the script from “ The Conjuring” writers Chad Hayes and Carey W. Clearly, nothing good will happen here, despite the elegant trappings.
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