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‘Nightcrawler’ offers a scathing critique of modern media

The cult of the American entrepreneur is captured in all its amoral, sociopathological glory in writer-director Dan Gilroy’s pitch-black satire Nightcrawler. It comes in the guise of Lou Bloom (Jake Gyllenhaal), an intensely buggy mouthpiece for our country’s current obsession with self-actualization through capitalism. When we meet Lou, he’s stealing chain-link fence and manhole covers […]

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