Nightcrawler is a steely LA noir that
trains a searchlight on the TV news business, and flushes out some
of its creepiest denizens. Gyllenhaal gives an intense, gripping
performance. His Louis is an icy sociopath, living in solitary
contentment with a laptop and a big-screen TV (both stolen,
presumably), his only companion a sad potted plant. The actor says
he lost nearly 30 pounds for the role, and his cadaverous,
dead-eyed countenance is the movie’s most disturbing element.
Writer-director Dan Gilroy is already a well-regarded screenwriter
(he scripted The Bourne Legacy with his brother,
Tony Gilroy). Here, directing his first movie, he reveals a sleek,
fully formed style, greatly enhanced by meticulous editing (by his
other brother, John Gilroy) and by James Newton Howard’s subtly
ominous score, writes Kurt Loder.
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