Reel Reviews

Nightcrawler -- Jake Gyllenhaal is really good in this movie. In fact, he's so good that his performance almost undermines the premise of the plot; if his Louis Bloom were as sharp and focused as he is made out to be as he descends into the TV news underworld, he never would have been the loser whose desperation drives him to his success in the first place. Leaving aside that Escher knot, this is an absorbing piece of filmmaking, with just enough mixture of action and social commentary to give the viewer a lot to think about and feel at the same time. Definitely worth a look.