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Nocturnal Animals

2016

Tom Ford

Amy Adams, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Shannon, Aaron Taylor-Johnson ...

7.1

39,362

Thriller. Drama One day wealthy unhappy Susan receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband, a man whom she left 20 years earlier, asking for her opinion. The book is called "Nocturnal Animals," which revolves around a man whose family vacation turns violent and deadly. It also continues to follow the story of Susan, who finds herself recalling her first marriage and confronting some dark truths about herself.

	Author	Review
United States	David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"David Lynch meets Alfred Hitchcock meets Douglas Sirk in Nocturnal Animals, a sumptuously entertaining noir melodrama laced (...) Ford is both an intoxicating sensualist and an accomplished storyteller"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Tom Ford returns with wildly gripping revenge tale (...) a pitch-black thriller to make you queasy with tension and regret (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of five)"	POS
United States	Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly	"A suspenseful and intoxicating movie (...) 'Nocturnal Animals' (...) leaves no doubt as to Tom Ford’s fervor and originality as a director"	POS
United Kingdom	Fionnuala Halligan Screendaily	"Ford respects the source material while making some audacious – some might say gratuitous - tweaks to deliver a dark, modern thriller which veers towards over-stating its case but still remains highly effective"	POS
United States	Richard Roeper Chicago Sun-Times	"A bloodless, cold, self-congratulatory exercise in style for style’s sake (...) Movies with characters who have so much at stake should not hang on the screen like works of modern art (...) Rating: ★★ (out of four)"	NEU
United States	Ben Croll The Wrap	"'Nocturnal Animals' is an impressively ambitious effort, one part mean Texas thriller, one part middle-age melodrama, and makes for a meta-textual riddle that is almost as pleasurable to reflect on as it to actually watch"	POS
United States	Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"There’s much to admire in 'Nocturnal Animals,' including Mr. Ford’s ambition, but too often it feels like the work of an observant student"	NEU
United States	Kyle Smith New York Post	"I’d love to tell you 'Nocturnal Animals' is a cinematic masterpiece, and for most of its running time, that’s what I was planning to do. You must see it. But a great movie requires a great ending, and 'Nocturnal Animals' doesn’t have one (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of four)"	POS
United Kingdom	Geoffrey Macnab The Independent	"A superb, painstakingly crafted movie (...) Nocturnal Animals is extraordinarily deft in the way it combines romanticism and bleakness (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of five)"	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"A stunning film noir that resonates with ghostly, poetic terror (...) The actors could not be better (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of four)"	POS

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