A gorgeous, harrowing and occasionally bizarre meta-thriller that mixes multiple narrative threads together with beautiful visuals and a breathtaking score.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 25, 2018

Nocturnal Animals is a frantic fever dream of the ways we betray and disappoint ourselves and those we love.

| Nov 20, 2017

Nocturnal Animals ultimately reaches for something that isn't there, and falters. Ford is the consummate commercial artist, but he seems to hate it - while still, as an artist, trafficking in it.

| Aug 10, 2017

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

| Jun 28, 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. But Nocturnal Animals has fun and looks damn good saying it. Maybe that's enough.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jun 13, 2017

With Nocturnal Animals, Ford shatters common romance tropes like second chances and serendipity, and explores the roles classicism, suppression, and rage play in destroying those ideals.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 21, 2017

Tom Ford masters this tricky narrative by establishing two separate, completely tangible environments. What's more, he maintains a consistent tone for both facets of this seductive story

| Dec 15, 2016

At times its self-indulgence borders on self-parody, but it captures the mood of the book while also doing something new with the material. Nocturnal Animals is no Single Man, but it's definitely all Tom Ford.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 9, 2016

The stories at the heart of the film are primal in their effectiveness, achieving a bristling intimacy I was stunned by.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 29, 2016

Ford delivers a tiresomely weird drama that's pitched somewhere between the cinematic realms of directors David Lynch.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 23, 2016

Writer-director Tom Ford, in his second movie (following 2009's "A Single Man"), can't connect the dots on an emotional level.

| Original Score: C | Nov 23, 2016

"Nocturnal Animals" is, I think, a beautiful mess, but I might have to watch it again to be sure.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 22, 2016

Designer turned director Tom Ford uses his gift for striking visuals to create a must-see.

| Nov 22, 2016

An intriguing, well-wrought film that explores penetrating questions. But for all its strengths it never quite breaks the surface.

| Nov 20, 2016

Nocturnal Animals, written and directed by Tom Ford, is essentially two separate films, with the better one folded inside the bad one.

| Original Score: C | Nov 18, 2016

The second effort by fashion designer turned writer-director Tom Ford (A Single Man) is a roadside horror film wrapped inside a chichi relationship movie.

| Nov 18, 2016

A ridiculous, high-camp mess that could easily be mistaken for substance, if it weren't so irredeemably silly.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Nov 18, 2016

There's much to admire in "Nocturnal Animals," including Mr. Ford's ambition, but too often it feels like the work of an observant student.

| Nov 17, 2016

Tom Ford hits it out of the park with a stunning film noir that resonates with ghostly, poetic terror. Don't overthink what Ford has so cunningly crafted. Surrender to it.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 17, 2016

Boasts some gripping scenes and a few stabs at satire, but ultimately offers little beyond its assured sense of style.

| Nov 17, 2016