Nightbitch

Name: Nightbitch
Genre: Drama, Horror, Comedy
Released: December 6, 2024
Duration: 98 min
Rating: 56
Cast: Adrienne Rose White, Amy Adams, Ella Thomas, Kerry O'Malley, Laura Meadows

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Searchlight Pictures | Release Date: December 6, 2024 | R

Starring: Adrienne Rose White, Amy Adams, Ella Thomas, Kerry O'Malley, Laura Meadows, Mary Holland, Michael Andrew Baker, Preston Galli, Roslyn Gentle, Scoot McNairy, Zoe Chao

Summary: A woman (Amy Adams) pauses her career to be a stay-at-home mom seeking a new chapter in her life and encounters just that, when her maternal routine takes a surreal turn. Based on Rachel Yoder’s debut novel.

Director: Marielle Heller

Genre(s): Drama, Horror, Comedy

Rating: R

Runtime: 98 min

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The Telegraph Robbie Collin

Oct 21, 2024

Adams is already a six-time Oscar nominee: it’s very possible that for this, she could finally nab one outright. From out of its sitcom-neat package, Nightbitch unleashes something primeval and wild – thought it might seem cuddly, hot spit flecks its jaws. Read full review

Looper Reuben Baron

Sep 9, 2024

Adams' great performance aside, Nightbitch is just a good but not great movie — and oddly enough, its biggest obstacle to greatness might be that it's not quite weird enough. Read full review

David Fear

Dec 6, 2024

There is a sense that it could have gone farther out and pushed even more boundaries, especially before tying everything back up with a “happy” ending that feels mostly but not quite completely earned. But there’s still a bark and a bite here in the way that its allowing a specific strain of too-often stifled female rage to really bloom. Read full review

David Rooney

Sep 8, 2024

Adams is reason enough to see it anyway in a performance that gives us intimate access to her character’s fears and anxieties. Read full review

Manohla Dargis

Dec 5, 2024

Adams is a performer whose emotional transparency can make her characters seem unguarded and appealingly vulnerable, and the movie works as well as it does in great part because of her. Read full review

Jen Yamato

Dec 5, 2024

It’s too bad that the premise hints at more of a horror twist than the movie actually delivers. Heller frequently interrupts a thin story with ambiguous dashes of magical realism that only serve to confuse. Read full review

Mick LaSalle

Nov 18, 2024

Either “Nightbitch” shouldn’t have been made or its premise should have been transformed and built upon. Read full review

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