Jake Gyllenhaal

Donnie Darko (2001)

Donnie Darko (2001)
Rating: ★★
Oct 28, 2001Troubled Teen's Precognitive Visions
A thoroughly overrated cult classic. A baffling mixture of precognition, time travel, sinister talking bunnies and 1980s satire. What this doesn't do is ever fall together into a coherent explanation about what is going on
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The Day After Tomorrow (2004)

The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
Rating: ★★★
Jun 1, 2004New Ice Age/Environmental Disaster Movie
In another of his big budget disaster spectacles, Roland Emmerich embraces environmental concerns about Global Warming. Here he (unscientifically) imagines the abrupt onset of a new Ice Age worldwide
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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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