The opening scene of Nocturnal Animals caught me by surprise. It’s a puzzling way to start a film because there’s no context. We don’t know anything about the world. And by the time the movie ends, this first scene is a mysterious…

In the end, Nocturnal Animals barely feels like a film made by a human being. You could just dub it a “stylish exercise” and call it a day. But I just can’t shake the fact that Ford somehow wants it to be…