"I cannot jeopardize my company's success . . . "

Rating: 10/10 (22 November 2014)

" . . . to barter with an untrustworthy employee," raging psychopath\CEO Lou says near the end of NIGHTCRAWLER to his intern\executive vice-president Rick, just after engineering Rick's demise. NIGHTCRAWLER is the most complete expose of America's corporate culture ever put on screen. It's not as Cartoonish as AMER!CAN PSYCHO, not as claustrophobic as GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS, and not as number-numbing as ARBITRAGE or WALL STREET. Not only that, but NIGHTCRAWLER outdoes NETWORK in PROVING that the journalistic ideal of ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN is a giant load of bull, and that today's news media slime around rubbing shoulders with the others in the lowest circle of the Corporate Hell-to-Come, Big Oil and Big Medicine. As a survivor of several U.S. media conglomerates, about the only thing for which I'm thankful is that I was never "down-sized" as ruthlessly as "Rick" in NIGHTCRAWLER. It's nice that writer\director Dan Gilroy-was-here to expose all the maggots writhing just below the skin of American culture.