The ever excellent Amy Adams excels as a bored mum turning into a dog, while Cameron Diaz and Jamie Foxx head up a caper about two married ex-CIA operatives dragged back into the spy game

Just like the physical transformations in recent body horror The Substance, the changes undergone by Amy Adams’s Mother in Marielle Heller’s off-kilter drama are a metaphor for the inequities faced by women in society. Here, however, the tone is lighter and wittier, as the former artist finds being stuck at home caring for her two-year-old son increasingly exhausting and dull. Her pent-up resentment – and the laissez-faire attitude of her husband (Scoot McNairy) – leads her to grow thick hair, a tail and other doggy accoutrements, and embrace her animal nature. More domestic comedy than werewolf chiller, its success rests on the ever excellent Adams’s let-it-all-out performance.
Friday 24 January, Disney+