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Nightbitch Is More of an Idea Than a Movie
The overarching meditative quality of Nightbitch is at once its most intriguing element and its greatest shortcoming.
Based on Rachel Yoder’s acclaimed novel, Amy Adams stars as a mother who, struggling with overwhelming parental duties and frustrations about the world she left behind, starts turning into a dog. Heller’s montages of Mother’s repetitive days walk a fine line between the pulverizing reality of endless sizzling hashbrowns and messy playtimes and the profound love between parent and child. As for the whole dog thing: It’s more a metaphorical grace note than a true narrative throughline, though Heller does give us intermittent bits of body horror and lots of shots of her protagonist’s dog-self running through the streets of both suburbia and New York City.
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