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Nocturnal Animals

When you love someone you can't just throw it away.

2016 · 1h 56m · R Drama, Thriller
Directed by Tom Ford

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Overview

Susan Morrow receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband – a man she left 20 years earlier – asking for her opinion of his writing. As she reads, she is drawn into the fictional life of Tony Hastings, a mathematics professor whose family vacation turns violent.

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73%
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Rotten

In the end, Nocturnal Animals barely feels like a film made by a human being. You could just dub it a "stylish exercise" and call it a day. But I just can't shake the fact that Ford somehow wants it to be more.

Stephanie Zacharek, TIME Magazine
Fresh

The film once again demonstrates that Ford is both an intoxicating sensualist and an accomplished storyteller, with as fine an eye for character detail as he has for color and composition.

David Rooney, Hollywood Reporter
Rotten

Feels almost unbearably cruel and cynical.

Dave Calhoun, Time Out
Fresh

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.

Owen Gleiberman, Variety
Fresh

All the more impressive for being two movies in one: the kind of "sad people in nice houses" tale you might expect from the couturier-turned-filmmaker, and a down-and-dirty West Texas revenge thriller that calls to mind Sam Peckinpah.

Alonso Duralde, TheWrap

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