6. Nightbitch (2024)
Amy Adams delivers yet another awards-worthy performance in Nightbitch, a feminist, quasi-werewolf film that highlights everything wrong with modern motherhood—the pressures of losing your identity, feelings of isolation, and little societal support. Nightbitch addresses these real-life issues with honest empathy and the supernatural elements with more absurdity. Nevertheless, it’s refreshing to see a werewolf movie that uses the metaphor in an entirely different way. The stay-at-home mom’s nightly transformations make sense because motherhood can become all about control and maintaining a perfect image, when what you really want is to release your rage and the intensity of your feelings. Nightbitch transforms the werewolf myth into something more contemporary and relatable—not just stories of tragic male heroes.
