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By M. Faust (314) for The Public (Buffalo) (288) on 19 Sep 2017

In the end, it's hard to draw any conclusions about the nature of these two stories other than ones that are unpleasant and unworthy of the effort…

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By Rachel Chan (9) for The New Paper (Singapore) (342) on 19 Sep 2017

Tom Ford has definitely brought his eye for art into this film, which was impeccably shot…

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By George Thomas (95) for The Cleveland Movie Blog (37) on 18 Sep 2017

A deft, intelligent, and twisty rumination on relationships and the expectations that come with them…

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By Tt Stern-Enzi (212) for Cincinnati CityBeat (160) on 11 Sep 2017

For all the acting excellence on display in Nocturnal Animals, what mattered more was cracking the narrative Rubik's Cube invented by Wright…

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By Martha K. Baker (133) for KDHX (St. Louis) (284) on 28 Aug 2017

Nocturnal Animals offers film as crisp, well-cut, tautly sewn, and artfully made to perfection…

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By Brooke Corso (225) for The Monitor (McAllen, TX) (201) on 13 Aug 2017

[Nocturnal Animals] is a brilliant sleight of hand that demands multiple viewings and the promise of different viewing experiences every time…

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By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 14 Jul 2017

As you might expect from Ford, this is a movie that is stunning to look at; less predictably, it is also brutally tense…

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By Anne Cohen (87) for Refinery29 (181) on 27 Jun 2017

That's what this movie is, really: a beautiful, shattered, f***ed-up dream…

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By Graham Fuller (154) for Culture Trip (49) on 22 Jun 2017

[It's] one of the best American films of 2016…

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By Angie Han (120) for Slashfilm (971) on 12 Jun 2017

Ford doesn't have anything especially new or interesting to say about the nature of vengeance or love, or the emptiness of material riches…

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By David N. Butterworth (570) for Movie Boeuf (266) on 30 May 2017

Ambiguous and absorbing, Nocturnal Animals is a worthwhile sophomore essay from the artsy, enigmatic Ford…

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By Matthew Pejkovic (770) for Matt's Movie Reviews (913) on 31 Mar 2017

Revenge never looked as good, nor felt as intense, as it does in Ford's capable hands…

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By Phil Nobile Jr. (15) for Birth.Movies.Death. (774) on 30 Mar 2017

Heaven help us if Tom Ford ever decides to make a horror film…

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By Candice Frederick (452) for Reel Talk Online (378) on 21 Mar 2017

With Nocturnal Animals, Ford shatters common romance tropes like second chances and serendipity, and explores the roles classicism, suppression,…

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By Shingai Darangwa (2) for Independent Online (South Africa) (258) on 10 Mar 2017

Nocturnal Animals works because it doesn't allow you to breathe…

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By Carlos Bonfil (23) for La Jornada (66) on 09 Mar 2017

The film is attractive and superficial, confusing in its commitment of complexity, and shows in its treatment and invoice the same lightness…

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By Jim Schembri (1,298) for 3AW (1,025) on 04 Mar 2017

A good way to describe this film is like the cinematic version of a Kinder surprise, with a ripping B-grade badlands thriller wrapped inside…

Review of Nocturnal Animals (2016)

By John Serba (472) for MLive.com (475) on 03 Mar 2017

It's satire, it's noir, it's melodrama; it's all of the above, but also not quite any of the above…

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By Peter Sobczynski (1,159) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 01 Mar 2017

The visual pleasures hardly begin to compensate for the inescapable fact that the movie as a whole is a leaden and pretentious trainwreck of…

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By Gregory Wakeman (182) for CinemaBlend.com (1,378) on 28 Feb 2017

It's enough to make you selfishly pine for more than one film every seven years from the director…

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