Nightbitch. Bestia di notte - Reviews

Parts of the film work well, the dance of avoidance around marital tensions and festering grievances playing out in Adams’s expressive face.

...follows a stay-at-home mom who transforms into a dog to escape the everyday mundanity of motherhood.

Amy Adams dominates in Nightbitch, a wholly original take on primal motherhood.

Amy Adams is on great form in Marielle Heller's adaptation of Rachel Yoder's novel about a new mother who is alarmed discover she is turning into a dog.

...a funny and freaky and appropriately messy film that’s part broad outlandish comedy, part toe-curling body-horror, part feminist treatise.

...a provocative metaphor for.. ...the transformative experience of motherhood.

...positions itself as an edgy, body-horror film with shock-value imagery, and there’s no denying the validity of its premise that even in 2024, the sacrifices of motherhood are taken for granted and underexamined.

...motherhood unleashes something truly primeval and wild in Amy Adams.

Of course, the true terror here is the overwhelming parenthood trap that Mother has unwittingly fallen into – one Husband has managed to dodge, seemingly without trying, simply because he’s a man.

Amy Adams goes full 'Robert De Niro/Raging Bull' for this role.