Completely barking. That’s the only way to describe Marielle Heller’s meandering horror comedy about the challenges of motherhood, in which Amy Adams’s exhausted character, known only as Mother, imagines she’s turning into a dog.
Adapted from Rachel Yoder’s 2021 novel, it feels like an authentic howl from the heart, and Adams gives an admirably un-vain performance, but it’s about as subtle as a Doberman bite.
