Flicks, Matt Glasby
The onset of so-called citizen journalism – whereby members of the public capture the news on camera – is meant to be democratic, but what if the citizen in question isn't quite all there?
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Nightcrawler
Jake Gyllenhaal leads this Los Angeles-set drama as a devilishly persistent creep who, struggling for employment, barges into the underground world of freelance crime journalism. Co-stars Rene Russo. The directorial debut from screenwriter Dan Gilroy (The Bourne Legacy, Real Steel).
After a chance late night encounter introduces Lou Bloom (Gyllenhaal) to the freelance footage game, he begins competing with other enterprising journos to capture crime on video. Forging a mutually beneficial relationship with a news producer (Russo), Bloom starts building a business, giving her first dibs on his footage. With this sociopath is roaming late night Los Angeles in a grubby, cut-throat industry, what could possibly go wrong?
2014Rating: R16, Violence, offensive language & content that may disturb117 minsUSA
Drama
- Director:
- Dan Gilroy (feature debut)
- Writer:
- Dan Gilroy
- Cast:
- Jake GyllenhaalBill PaxtonRene RussoAnn CusackRiz AhmedJames Huang
Nightcrawler / Reviews
Variety
A feast of capital-A acting that's sometimes amusing to watch but not believable for so much as a second.
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Gyllenhaal is sensational headlining a pitch-black satire with its finger on the pulse.
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Time Out
Gyllenhaal summons career-best work... hammers home Louis's mania in ferocious, near-OCD monologues—one of which will bring your audience to stupefied applause—that reveal a truly dangerous operator.
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The Guardian
Gyllenhaal's performance is so dedicated, and Gilroy's world so determinedly realised that it forces its way to originality.
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The Dissolve
Much as Gilroy tries to be his own killjoy, Gyllenhaal’s wickedness prevails.
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Hollywood Reporter
The film's constant shifts of tone can grow tiring, even if the action as a whole never gets boring.
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Empire Magazine
Sharp, dark, satirical and bone-rattlingly thrilling, with a career-peak turn from Jake Gyllenhaal.
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