Whether Ford is filming a performance art sequence featuring obese, nude, dancing women or staging a crime scene in which nude corpses are arranged like mannequins, “Nocturnal Animals” is ...

As this happened, clip-art makers began emphasizing quantity over quality. Even T/Maker, which built its business on sales of small, high-quality clip-art packages, entered the volume clip-art market.

Art can make us squirm. That’s the theme of “Nocturnal Animals,” a theme telegraphed with almost sadistic clarity as we watch, under the opening credits, a series of obese naked women ...