Nightcrawler

As the name may imply, Nightcrawler is a modern film noir thriller that examines the state of today's journalistic business of sensationalism.  It is also a great character study of a man who grew up with those influences, and how he ambitiously and at all moral and ethical cost, rose up in the frantic and high paced world of video journalism.  Jake Gyllenhaal's performance is pretty electric in how he morphed into the character and I certainly put it on par with other films of a more satirical nature. Think Robert Deniro in Taxi Driver,  Edward Norton in Fight Club, or Christian Bale in American Psycho.  Like these films, Nightcrawler has the makings of a classic and I think it has been sadly overlooked by the mainstream thus far.