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- The film’s a satirical thriller, which is a novel enough entity in itself these days; it has a pungent, can’t-miss-the-point premise, and a big, weird, sharkish performance from Jake Gyllenhaal powering it up.
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Nov 3, 2014 · Here’s the thing: While those elements are undeniably present, the film isn’t primarily a media satire. The film has earned a number of comparisons to “Network” (along with “Taxi Driver...
- Max O'connell
Nightcrawler is a 2014 American neo-noir thriller film written and directed by Dan Gilroy in his directorial debut. It stars Jake Gyllenhaal as an unhinged stringer who seeks out violent and morbid events late at night in Los Angeles so he can film them and sell the exclusive footage to a local television news station.
Oct 30, 2014 · Nightcrawler deliberately blurs the lines between David Cronenberg-like satire, crime thriller and horror. It also poses as a twisted version of the traditional story about the all-American...
- Geoffrey Macnab
Oct 31, 2014 · It’s also a media satire in the spirit of “Network” and “To Die For” that takes the slogan “If it bleeds, it leads” to its horrifyingly logical conclusion. It’s a comedy.
Apr 27, 2022 · Nightcrawler taking the anti-hero route makes the movie extremely funny as a satire, but also shows the horrors of an extremely capitalistic mindset. It also works because the occupation...
Oct 31, 2014 · “The title suggests a horror movie. It’s not. It’s just the story of a horrible person, but a fascinating one, with no moral center and no capacity for empathy, but with a crazy kind of...
Oct 31, 2014 · Is Nightcrawler a sincere commentary on social decay or an over-the-top black satire? Tonally speaking, the movie never quite seems to make up its mind.
