The new year is only two weeks old, but Nocturnal Animals is likely going to make my top 5 movies of 2017. I saw this a couple of days ago on my birthday, a few weeks after being disappointed that it had already left the major theater chains here in Minnesota around Christmas, and I left the movie impressed. It’s hard to ignore a movie with a cast boasting Jake Gyllenhaal (Enemy), Amy Adams (Arrival), and Michael Shannon (Midnight Special), and even though I still haven’t seen Tom Ford’s first movie, A Single Man, I remembered the good buzz around it. On the strength of this sophomore effort, I’ll move it up the queue.
AT THE FOOTHILLS OF MADNESS 