Although I was able to put aside my knowledge that nothing occurring in this film would happen in reality, there are moments in the film where I was pulled out of it...

| Sep 13, 2022

Intriguing, unnerving and haunting.

| Mar 7, 2017

Nightcrawler, on its surface, is a relatively straightforward thriller, built around a slightly improbable but very effective main character, a man who starts as an antihero and plunges straight ahead toward villainy.

| Sep 26, 2016

Like an alternate version of Network in which Faye Dunaway cannibalizes the conscientious William Holden character, Nightcrawler cleverly dispenses with any debate about the tyranny of ratings and the erosion of privacy.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 4, 2015

Make no mistake, Nightcrawler is a major work for everyone involved.

| Original Score: A | Jan 4, 2015

Filmmaker Gilroy, brother to Tony (of the darkly marvellous Michael Clayton), makes every cinematic second count. If you blink you miss a tell-tale reaction shot, a vital visual plot clue, or a brilliant cut-in.

| Jan 4, 2015

A gritty urban comedy noir, a scathing, Network-worthy disembowelment of television newsgatherers that will leave you craving a shower.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 4, 2015

It seems like a lot of satirical hue and cry about a social problem I'm not sure the nation is currently plagued by. Are local 온라인카지노추천 news stations really conducting daily bidding wars over the goriest footage random freelancers can bring them?

| Jan 4, 2015

The film remains an amusingly sick joke and, despite its preachiness, a fun ride.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 3, 2014

The noirish photography by Robert Elswit, best known for his work with Paul Thomas Anderson, is highly effective, making contemporary Los Angeles at night look nightmarish, and the performances are superb.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 26, 2014

It's a no-nonsense, old-school exercise, with a tinge of borderline trashiness.

| Nov 17, 2014

Crashes and crime scenes are his bread and butter. He is driven. He is innovative. He is happy. He is also a monster - a fiend who preys on people at their weakest and worst moments.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 5, 2014

Gilroy is so plugged into his antihero's grotesque opportunism that it's hard not to feel a residual kick.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 3, 2014

A riveting character study, but also an unsettling look at what the economy is doing to us as a society.

| Nov 3, 2014

Now 33 years old, Gyllenhaal is the same age that De Niro was in Taxi Driver and, like him, he is learning to channel an eerie, inner charisma, offering it up in glimpses and glimmers rather than all at once.

| Oct 31, 2014

For a first-time director, Gilroy demonstrates an uncommon assurance, not only in his audacious tonal shifts but in the stellar work he elicits from his cast and crew.

| Oct 31, 2014

A mesmerizing cipher, Lou is a spiritual descendant of Robert De Niro's Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver, and of the withholding protagonists in the existential French crime films of Robert Bresson and Jean-Pierre Melville

Full Review | Oct 31, 2014

After a few minutes you know everything about Louis you're going to know; the only surprise in Nightcrawler is the level of grotesqueness it achieves.

| Oct 31, 2014

With 'Nightcrawler,' Jake Gyllenhaal adds to his latest round of extreme characterizations with another superior performance here.

| Oct 31, 2014

[Gilroy] wants Louis, who perpetrates some ghastly escapades, to epitomize the sick soul of media exploitation, but he also celebrates him as an entrepreneurial go-getter who is just giving us hypocrites what we secretly (or not-so-secretly) crave.

| Original Score: C+ | Oct 31, 2014