Gutsycurene Fanciful, disturbing, and wildly original, it announces the arrival of a fresh, bold voice in American cinema.

Derrick Gibbons An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

Brenda The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

Justina The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

nataliesinnadurai The beauty of the cinematography & the acting doesn't detract from the misogyny. Hopefully films like this won't be made frequently as women will realise they don't need to submit to the pressure as a result of #metoo.

CrazySven "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.

mikeburnsbristol An absolutely shallow attempt at trying to make a deep movie. Complete waste of time.

dan-18386 This film resonated with me for a while. A true piece of art.I loved it.