Why American Psycho Fans Will Like It: Despite Gyllenhaal’s chilling performance and its biting commentary on ethics in media, writer and director Dan Gilroy’s breathtaking thriller, which is unfortunately not streaming anywhere at the moment but is available for digital rental, can also be viewed as an unusual success story in which its highly motivated, sociopathic “hero” gets exactly what he wants by disturbing means.
What It’s About: In Nightcrawler, an aspiring freelance video journalist (an unrecognizably skinny Jake Gyllenhaal) takes the mantra “if it bleeds, it leads” a little too literally, blurring the line between voyeur and perpetrator of the horrifying Los Angeles incidents he “captures” on camera.