The film premiered at the Venice Film Festival.
Critics praised the film for its potent emotional power, Colin Firths performance, and wrenching and ravishing story.
Based on early reactions, it looks like the first effort wasnt beginners luck.
Credit: Merrick Morton
The film then juggles Susans story with the books haunting content.
Isla Fisher, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Michael Shannon, and Laura Linney also feature among the cast.
Read more of what critics had to say aboutNocturnal Animalsbelow.
The real standout is Taylor-Johnson, so effectively creepy as the ringleader of the novels miscreants.
Fords work [is] never farcical or glib in those early confrontations between Tony and the roadside bullies.
The slow build-up to the violence is genuinely frightening and it genuinely works.
