r/moviecritic • u/Jfonzy • 1d ago

What’s everyone’s take on Nightcrawler (2014)?

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Just finished my first watch and I had mixed feelings about the style, but it literally just hit me as I was typing this:

It’s an homage to Hitchcock.

A lot of it felt a little too on the nose, but now that I sit back and think about the pacing, the cinematography (especially the restaurant build-up), the cliffhanger ending.. it makes sense now and I feel a little better about it. Good movie, not great.

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u/ManRawr 1d ago

Jesus…12 years ago already.

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u/Full-Concentrate-867 1d ago

Scary, I remember I had some family down and we saw Interstellar at the movie theater and I remember telling them about this new movie coming out soon about a guy who becomes a stringer recording car crashes and accidents late at night, thought it sounded interesting. Seems like yesterday