Nightbitch (2024)

Amy Adams’ heartfelt star turn only partially elevates ‘Nightbitch’. An excellent Amy Adams begins to transform from a mom into a canine in ‘Nightbitch,’ an uneven horror-comedy that never fully commits to its premise. Movies where characters have no names, and only referred to as “Mother” or other archetypes, always make us suspicious.

While it can work in book form, film is a much more visual medium and therefore a more specific one, and while that lack of specificity may make a story on the page more universal or metaphorical, the more concrete language of film may demand a little more out of its characters.