Nocturnal Animals: reviews

What the critics say average 7.0 from 2 outlets

• 10 The GuardianPeter Bradshaw "Tom Ford returns with wildly gripping revenge tale (...) a pitch-black thriller to make you queasy with tension and regret" Read
• 4.0 Time OutDave Calhoun It's the fashion designer's second movie after his 2009 debut A Single Man, and this is a far more ambitious film, with its sprawling cast, various periods, layered storytelling and musings on life and art. But it's also far less endearing and coherent, and feels almost unbearably cruel and cynical. Read
• El MundoLuis Martínez "All the movie flows in an asepsia atmosphere almost sterile that slows down ballasts the offer". Read
• Screen DailyFionnuala Halligan "Ford respects the source material while making some audacious tweaks to deliver a dark, modern thriller which veers towards over-stating its case but still remains highly effective."
• The Hollywood ReporterDavid Rooney "David Lynch meets Alfred Hitchcock meets Douglas Sirk in 'Nocturnal Animals', a sumptuously entertaining noir melodrama (...) Ford is both an intoxicating sensualist and an accomplished storyteller" Read
• VarietyOwen Gleiberman "'Nocturnal Animals' is a suspenseful and intoxicating movie (...) It leaves no doubt as to Tom Ford?s fervor and originality as a director" Read
• IndiewireBen Croll "'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." Read