Over the Thanksgiving holiday, I felt the strangest urge pulling at me. What I needed was “Nightbitch.” “Nightbitch,” the latest installment in Adams’ respectable collection of mid-budget films, sings with the kind of accessible, everyday realism that moviegoers rarely see anymore. Within the first 12 years of her acting career, Adams made a name for herself in this niche subgenre …
“The one thing I learned doing this movie is don’t mansplain motherhood,” actor Scoot McNairy said onstage after Saturday’s world premiere of “Nightbitch” at the Toronto International Film Festival. It made “Nightbitch” seem like a wacky mom-com version of “Teen Wolf” rather than what it is: a surreal, insightful film about the joys and anguish of motherhood, and the sometimes …
