Nocturnal Animals is one of the few movies I have seen in my entire life that manages to be meaningfully artistic. Not snobbish and passive aggresively boring.....entertaining and emotional. Smart but not full of hot feces. Here's why I think it's perfect. Spoiler free! Nocturnal Animals Movie Review. Total crap that Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Shannon weren't nominated for their roles here. Congrats to Aaron Taylor Johnson on his Golden Globes nomination and Tom Ford for his.