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By Armond White (604) for Out Magazine (27) on 31 Dec 2016

Nocturnal Animals is a revenge drama by a designer who deals in beauty then reveals his society's ugliness…

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By Kent Turner (504) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 31 Dec 2016

This adaptation ... presents a mishmash of styles, from hothouse drama to cool, elegant, and elliptical European art house…

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By Tim Brayton (2,283) for Antagony & Ecstasy (1,911) on 30 Dec 2016

Animated by a largely morbid revulsion at human beings that has disguised itself in a thick lacquer of outlandishly beautiful cinematography…

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By Pablo Villaça (1,590) for Cinema em Cena (1,589) on 29 Dec 2016

It's a film about artists and those who aspire to be; about regrets; about past loves that, seen in the light of present pains, begin to sound…

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By Erick Estrada (196) for Cinegarage (196) on 29 Dec 2016

A bitter story, and a morbid love letter and at the same time a loving declaration of hatred to Los Angeles. [Full review in Spanish]…

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By Carlos Del Río (49) for Cine Premiere (538) on 29 Dec 2016

A seductive, beautiful and ruthless psychological thriller with great perfomances from Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal. [Full review in Spanish]…

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By Ron Wilkinson (582) for It's Just Movies (121) on 27 Dec 2016

Although explicit violence and grotesque characters may get too much screen time, this is a solid neo-noir thriller…

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By Kelly Vance (1,015) for East Bay Express (1,012) on 27 Dec 2016

Shannon makes even okay dialogue sound brilliant, and his facial expressions rival most novels in the good read category…

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By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 26 Dec 2016

The back-and-forth arthouse vs…

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By Glenn Lovell (434) for CinemaDope (253) on 24 Dec 2016

Tom Ford's stutter-step distillation of the Austin Wright novel…

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By Kevin A. Ranson (644) for MovieCrypt.com (644) on 20 Dec 2016

But it makes you think,' some will argue... true: it makes you think, 'The director had no clue how to end this... so they didn't…

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By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Houston Press (294) on 18 Dec 2016

It's a handsome production, but ultimately lacking in substance…

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By Camilla Long (212) for Sunday Times (UK) (753) on 17 Dec 2016

[Ford squeezes] a turgid, overblown thriller out of an idiotic cul-de-sac of a novel, Tony and Susan, by the forgettable American writer Austin…

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By David Fontana (92) for Film Inquiry (1,269) on 16 Dec 2016

Cynical and stylishly alluring, Nocturnal Animals is mostly a memorable success within the neo-noir genre and another indicator of the filmmaking…

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By Leonard Maltin (609) for leonardmaltin.com (584) on 15 Dec 2016

Tom Ford masters this tricky narrative by establishing two separate, completely tangible environments…

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By Brian Orndorf (4,059) for Blu-ray.com (2,093) on 15 Dec 2016

Nocturnal Animals is more of an exercise in manipulation than a piercing story of paralyzed hearts, eventually dissolving into a movie of moments…

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By Jeffrey Lyles (696) for Lyles' Movie Files (591) on 15 Dec 2016

The darker tone might not make the film work for everyone, but it proves to be a riveting and rewarding experience for those able to stick with it…

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By J. Olson (540) for Cinemixtape (540) on 15 Dec 2016

At once austere and salacious, grim and bubbly, the picture reminds that film is truly a limitless medium…

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By Alberto Sáez Villarino (72) for El antepenúltimo mohicano (311) on 13 Dec 2016

A metafictional and authentically filmic anagnorisis that consolidates Tom Ford as one of the majors postmodern geniuses. [Full review in Spanish]…

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By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 12 Dec 2016

A bleak, but fascinating, rumination on relationships, betrayal, loss, and vengeance…

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