Nocturnal Animals

Tom Ford's first film since 'A Single Man' is another winner, an ambitious high-wire noir thriller with Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal in an explosive tale of love, violence, and revenge.

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Nocturnal Animals confirms Tom Ford as an essential director, as he gives us two dazzling stories that combine for one powerful movie experience.

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This may or may not be one of the best films of 2016, but it’s absolutely one of the most interesting.

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Amy Adams gets a poison-pen valentine from novelist ex Jake Gyllenhaal (or does she?) in Tom Ford's twisty, violent noir.

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Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal star in a film that successfully melds grit and glamour, the past and present, fiction and reality.

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Ford is clearly a cinephile, and elements of other auteurs are all over Animals: the sexmad decadence of Brian De Palma, the formal control of Hitchcock, surreal dabs of David Lynch-ian grotesque. The movie’s lofty narrative ambitions never quite catch up with its aesthetics, but it’s still a fantastic beast of a film, intoxicating and strange.

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Tom Ford frames stories within stories in the postmodern Nocturnal Animals.

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But “Nocturnal Animals,” like “A Single Man” before it, shows a Ford who wants more than merely to entertain.

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Susan (Amy Adams) is materially successful but emotionally unfilled. When she’s sent a manuscript by her ex (Jake Gyllenhaal), telling a tale of vengeance in the Texas desert, she reminisces on her former life and confronts the mistakes she’s made.

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Tom Ford has entirely overstuffed his nesting-doll domestic drama-cum-thriller Nocturnal Animals, and yet I spent much of the film worrying that it might not have a point.

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Intoxicating, provocative, delicious - Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal star in Nocturnal Animals.

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In "Nocturnal Animals," revenge is a dish best served in manuscript form. One ordinary day in her unhappy marriage, cash-strapped LA art gallery owner Susan, played by Amy Adams, receives a plain brown envelope. Inside is the new novel written by her ex-husband, portrayed by Jake Gyllenhaal, titled "Nocturnal Animals," with a note attached suggesting they reunite sometime soon.

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I’d love to tell you Tom Ford’s “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.

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At the very least, you know a Tom Ford movie is going to look good.

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Nocturnal Animals is, I think, a beautiful mess, but I might have to watch it again to be sure.

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The film gets close to a double-barreled satirical thriller commenting on the historic rift between city and country.

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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.

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How exactly are we supposed to feel about the beautiful things that populate Ford's movie?

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Revenge may be a dish best served cold elsewhere, but here the varying shades of vendettas are painted in harsh, hot colors by Ford and his director of photography Seamus McGarvey.

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What is the new Tom Ford movie, “Nocturnal Animals,” meant to be about? I have seen it twice now, and am none the wiser second time around.

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