Pick of the week
Nightbitch
Just like the physical transformations in recent body horror The Substance, the changes undergone by Amy Adams’s Mother in Marielle Heller’s off-kilter drama are a metaphor for the inequities faced by women in society. Here, however, the tone is lighter and wittier, as the former artist finds being stuck at home caring for her two-year-old son increasingly exhausting and dull. Her pent-up resentment – and the laissez-faire attitude of her husband (Scoot McNairy) – leads her to grow thick hair, a tail and other doggy accoutrements, and embrace her animal nature. More domestic comedy than werewolf chiller, its success rests on the ever excellent Adams’s let-it-all-out performance.
Friday 24 January, Disney+
