Jake Gyllenhaal

Donnie Darko (2001)

Donnie Darko (2001)
Rating: ★★
Oct 28, 2001Troubled Teen's Precognitive Visions
This became a cult classic but a thoroughly overrated one in this author's opinion. A baffling mixture of precognition, time travel, sinister talking bunnies and satiric jabs at 1980s conservatism, what this doesn't do is ever fall together into a coherent explanation about what is going on
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Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010)

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010)
Rating: ★★
May 28, 2010Videogame Adaptation/Arabian Nights Adventure
Adaptation of the popular videogame that ventures into Arabian Nights adventure, this was a box-office flop. It swashbuckles entertainingly but Jake Gyllenhaal feels badly miscast as a buffed adventure hero
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Prisoners (2013)

Prisoners (2013)
Rating: ★★★½
Sep 23, 2013Vigilante Parent Tortures Child Abduction Suspect
Dark and gripping thriller from Denis Villeneuve about child abductions and a distraught parent who decides to torture a suspect to find their whereabouts.; Superbly well written thriller that raises some big contemporary issues about the legitimacy of torture. Both Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal give utterly convincing performances
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Life (2017)

Life (2017)
Rating: ★★★
Jun 10, 2017Alien Organism Amok on the International Space Station
This is essentially Alien reworked for the fad for scientifically grounded space travel films we have had in recent years with Gravity and The Martian. The film features an original alien menace and contains itself to a series of exciting set-pieces about the International Space Station
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Spider-Man: Far from Home (2019)

Spider-Man: Far from Home (2019)
Rating: ★★★
Sep 28, 2019Comic-Book Superhero
Spider-Man: Homecoming was Sony's MCU-integrated Spider-Man reboot where all the elements came together with winning regard and Tom Holland's politely eager nervousness made for a fantastic Spider-Man. This is a follow-up.
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