As he pulls his hair into a samurai spike on the top of his head and launches into a personal, employable sales pitch to a junkyard dealer that’s buying stolen metal wire from him — in a speech that appears to largely be learned from YouTube videos — Jake Gyllenhaal starts his enjoyably creepy performance in Nightcrawler. His Lou Bloom is part TJ Mackey from Magnolia, part Robert…
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