Nightbitch

"Adams is game. The premise is ripe. Everyone loves dogs. But the movie simply doesn’t work."

"The allegory is a bit confused, but the message still has bite."

"If anyone can hold the centre of a messy, imperfect character study, it’s Amy Adams."

"I think we’re meant to feel rage, but Nightbitch left me howling with laughter."

"Threatens to get weird and dangerous, only to retreat into cosy validations."

"Funny, unruly, bizarre, tender."

"A fabulous showcase for Adams."

"Adams is predictably good in her emotional honesty, even in a story meagre on the bones."

"Allows its feral growl to become a purr of earnest assent to bland ideas of earth-mother solidarity."

"The audience has a right to demand, “So where does this lead?” The answer is nowhere in particular."

"What always rings loud and clear and true is the formidable Adams."

"One of the year's most disappointing releases, wasting the talents of the usually brilliant Amy Adams."

"(Adams') performance lifts this movie from an oddly uneven script to something unequivocally worth seeing."

"Amy Adams deserves better than the dog’s dinner that is Nightbitch."

"Adams, as usual, gives it her all, but it’s as if Kafka’s Metamorphosis had been adapted as frivolous comic operetta."

"(Heller) turns her characters into mouthpieces and films them with little sense of discovery."