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Actor: Jake Gyllenhaal

Jake Gyllenhaal was nominated for Brokeback Mountain and has spent the following two decades choosing roles that make an audience uneasy.

Nightcrawler is the extreme case. He lost thirty pounds to play a sociopath whose ambition is entirely legible and entirely repellent, and the performance was widely expected to be nominated and was not.

Zodiac, Prisoners, Enemy and Southpaw fill out a filmography built on obsession, and he works constantly on stage between films.

Donnie Darko remains the cult title, and Source Code and Spider-Man: Far From Home show a comic capacity he uses rarely.

Hugh Jackman as Keller Dover stands in shadow inside an abandoned building, his face tense and determined.Hugh Jackman

Prisoners (2013) Review

Prisoners (2013) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Two girls disappear on Thanksgiving and one of their fathers abducts and tortures the man he believes responsible. Roger Deakins shot it, Villeneuve directed it, and the film refuses…

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A teenage boy in a dark bedroom looks troubled as a jet engine wreckage lies nearby, with a figure in a rabbit costumeDrew Barrymore

Donnie Darko (2001) Review

Donnie Darko (2001) rates 7 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A time loop film that works better as a portrait of adolescence than as a mechanism. Failed on release for reasons of timing, found its people on DVD,…

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Strange World (2022) film posterDennis Quaid

Strange World (2022)

Strange World is the Walt Disney Animation Studios feature that recorded one of the worst opening weekends in modern Disney theatrical animation history. Jake Gyllenhaal voices Searcher Clade, a farmer in the isolated mountain valley of Avalonia.

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Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019) film posterCobie Smulders

Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019) Review

Jake Gyllenhaal's Mysterio, the European tour, the basketball court Blip gag that confirmed the franchise wouldn't engage with its own catastrophe. The 6 reflects honest evaluation of a competent Phase Three closing film that operates as the franchise's first major…

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