‘Nightbitch’ Review: Amy Adams Gets in Touch with Her Canine Side in Marielle Heller’s Surprisingly Grounded Monster Movie

‘Nightbitch’ Review: Amy Adams Gets in Touch with Her Canine Side in Marielle Heller’s Surprisingly Grounded Monster Movie

Amy Adams turns into a dog in the new movie 'Nightbitch.' Read our review.

TIFF Review: Amy Adams Goes Full 'Nightbitch' in Marielle Heller's Skewering of Motherhood - Awards Radar

Searchlight Pictures Trailers lie. Our first real look at Nightbitch suggested a very different film than we’ve actually got on our hands. Having just seen the movie here at the Toronto International Film Festival, the broad and on the nose comedy in the trailer has given way to a biting skewering of motherhood. It’s a relief, too, since what we were previewed online a few days ago seemed silly. This, on the other hand, is smart, detailing a sat…

AwardsWatch - ‘Nightbitch’ Review: Amy Adams Goes Feral in Marielle Heller’s Neutered Adaptation of Stressed-Out Mom Novel

‘Motherhood is a Bitch.’ So says the tagline of the new Marielle Heller (Can You Ever Forgive Me?) film starring Amy Adams as the titular Nightbitch. This serious subject matter is not new—not to film, and not to literature. So it was that in the Rachel Yoder novel from which Heller’s adapted her hilarious script,…