Nightcrawler, review: 'jet-black laughs'

Nightcrawler, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, is an electrically overblown satire
on tabloid journalism, says Tim Robey

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15; 117 min.

Try to imagine the acrid TV satire of Network, lit up by the sodium
glare of an LA crime flick from the 1980s, and you’re some of the way
into Nightcrawler. 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