“Nocturnal Animals” Suffocates Us in Its Constrictive Embrace

Nocturnal Animals (Tom Ford, 2016) Until just recently, it would have been hard to imagine seeing a film that would make Nicholas Winding Refn’s The Neon Demon seem like a subtle and moderate take on the conflict between art and passion. Director Tom Ford (A Single Man), however, has managed just that, creating an overdetermined, overplotted and overwrought melodrama that … Continue reading “Nocturnal Animals” Suffocates Us in Its Constrictive Embrace