everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

"Nocturnal Animals" was a great film to stumble upon this afternoon. I sometimes don't shop for a film, but simply look at the title description and rating before diving into a film like this and wait to be surprised or disappointed. This movie was one of the greats as far as watching a film cold is concerned. Right out of the barrel, the opening scene gripped me in a visceral way, which is the intrinsic point of "art" after all. We see the gallery with the shocking spectacle projected on screens, which pan down to the sculptures of the subject as a reclining nude. The thematic device of the reclining nude appears several more times in the film, both as a horror and in the context of appreciable art and real life. I'm not going to ruin the film by giving a laundry list of what happens after that, but having watched the film, I must admit that the layered story-line, the careful weaving of symbolism, the transcendent tendrils of recurring imagery and an engrossing juxtaposition of timelines, where truth is stranger than fiction and art mimics life, really is composed as if with an artist's brush and it really gets down to the marrow of our daily existence and our psyches. The film makes us think about the choices we have made in our past and what we could have done to change the outcome. As a side note to the armchair malcontents, the likes of which we see far too many these days; get over yourself. The plethora of reactionary attacks of hatred unleashed upon any film that dares to be creative or different are unwarranted and quite frankly, despicable. If self-loathing nincompoops want to "review" something; why not review your own life? Yes. I'm talking to you. Most of you trolls who leave the imbecilic one and two star Reviews are semi-literate, immature, inadequate, spiteful, self-aggrandizing, pompous, contemptuous, unenlightened, spiteful, egotistical; as well as being the worst type of knuckle-dragging mouth-breathers on the planet and if tasked to make a movie on your own, could not do so if your life depended on it. If you hate movies that require any type of thought or creative consciousness outside the norm; just watch the films intended for people who are at the lowest point of intelligence on the Bell Curve and leave the rest of us alone. We do not care what you think. Sorry. I had to get that out of my system. If this movie was so terrible, as the oafs living in their parents' basement seem to think, then all movies are bad.

Movie starts banging your head right from the start as story doesn't take much time to build up. i assume i would reveal too much about the plot if i write much but believe me all thriller/drama guys ...u will get a hangover with it. YOU want one ..well this the one right here without any booze. coming down to tech aspects ...well shot and lens colors used are brilliant ..remember PRISONERS ..shrewd editing has put thrilling energy in this movie. acting...well we all know JAKE and AMY how well they act and they have put a remarkable show again.. parallel shots running ....man again i remark EDITING ...hats off. Must Watch in short...i am in thoughts..cant write much..

I like this other wife lady.Intense.I sure as hell don't want Michael Shannon interrogating me.Very intense.

This is one of the worst movies I've ever watched. I seriously want my time back!!! Poor written, no plot, no climax, no conclusion. Why?? Fix it Jesus!