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The best Jake Gyllenhaal movies showcase how impressive the actor's career has been. He debuted in one of his father's standout films, City Slickers and never looked back. Although initially typecast as a brooding, moody teen in angsty pictures such the twisty cult classic Donnie Darko, Gyllenhaal has since aggressively diversified his acting portfolio.
36 Bubble Boy Jimmy Livingston One of the first notable movies in Jake Gyllenhaal's career as a leading man saw him star in the comedy Bubble Boy. Unfortunately, what Bubble Boy presents is a tableau of often tasteless and crude jokes that only serve to highlight the paper-thin premise of the film. In it, Jake Gyllenhaal plays Jimmy Livingston, a boy forced to live his life in a protective bubble due to his compromised immune system.
Despite that premise, Accidental Love was plagued from the start with issues directly relating to the 2008 financial collapse, with the film's production shut down an unprecedented 14 times due to a series of union and restitution issues. As a result, Accidental Love's final cut was submitted incomplete and missing a series of canceled scenes that conspire to make the film a jumbled mess at times. Biel and Gyllenhaal were good in what actually hit the screen though.
✕ Remove Ads 33 Rendition Douglas Freeman The mid-2000s saw Gyllenhaal star in a series of military-based dramas that had decidedly mixed impacts. Rendition is often considered the worst of these as it was met with a mixed response at best. The film centers on the controversial CIA practice of"extraordinary rendition" or, in layman's terms, the transfer and torture of those deemed threats to the United States.
✕ Remove Ads While the film was ultimately met with a mixed response from fans and critics alike, both Gyllenhaal and Hathaway landed Golden Globe nominations for their performances. 29 Road House Elwood Dalton ✕ Remove Ads Films from the 80s and 90s are getting remade more and more these days and one of the latest was Road House. A remake of the beloved Patrick Swayze movie of the same name from 1989, this take saw Jake Gyllenhaal step into the lead role and show off some of his physical skills. The simple premise sees Gyllenhaal's Elwood Dalton, a former UFC fighter, take a job as a bouncer.
This is perhaps best explained by The Sisters Brothers' adamant refusal to pick a narrative lane, with the film neither intense enough to be considered a drama nor funny enough to be considered a comedy. That is also the issue Gyllenhaal's character John Morris suffers from throughout the movie. John C. Reilly and Joaquin Phoenix, the titular Sisters Brothers, were praised for their performances as the stars of this well-received project.
Jennifer Aniston's role as the depressed Justine Last was a revelation as she moved away from the shroud of Friends' Rachel Green and displayed some impressive dramatic chops. Meanwhile, Gyllenhaal dovetails with her portrait of a dangerously bored and unsatisfied wife to great effect. Critics roundly praised The Good Girl at the time of its release, and the film's impact as an emotional satire of middle America has not diminished since 2002.
The fact that Gyllenhaal delivers such a standout performance as a character who isn't known to emote much on screen is a testament to his acting abilities. While the film's end scene feels like a backward step into contrived territory as Davis watches a physical demolition , Demolition remains a fascinating piece of work nonetheless.
Gyllenhaal's Morf and Toni Collette's Gretchen epitomize this idea, trading art and slander in equal measure. While Velvet Buzzsaw's horror tag feels largely unearned, viewing the film as a commentary on the soulless nature of modern artistic tendencies guarantees Velvet Buzzsaw lingers long in the memory as a unique piece of cinema from Dan Gilroy. Reviews were mostly mixed at the time of release and the solid film has kind of been forgotten.
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