TORONTO, Canada—Amy Adams is great and yet her career choices over the past few years—including Vice, Hillbilly Elegy, The Woman in the Window, and Dear Evan Hansen—have been anything but. Nightbitch, thankfully, reverses that trend.
A magic-realist fable about motherhood, identity, transformation, and the brutality and bliss of creating and cultivating life, writer/director Marielle Heller’s adaptation of Rachel Yoder’s novel, which just premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival ahead of its Dec.