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Jay Cocks

Writing · Born January 12, 1944

John C. "Jay" Cocks Jr. (born January 12, 1944) is an American film critic and screenwriter. He is a graduate of Kenyon College. Before shifting to screenplay writing, he was a critic for Time, Newsweek, and Rolling Stone, among other magazines.

Jay Cocks movies and shows

  • Gangs of New York2002
  • A Complete Unknown2024
  • Silence2016
  • Mr. Scorsese2025
  • The Last Temptation of Christ1988
  • Strange Days1995
  • The Age of Innocence1993
  • De-Lovely2004
  • The Business End: Violence in Cinema2008
  • The Long Shadow of Dirty Harry2008
  • Movies Are My Life1988
  • The Craft of Dirty Harry2008
  • Martin Scorsese's Journey Into Silence2017
  • Street Scenes 19701970
  • Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 20012007
  • Full Metal Jacket: Between Good and Evil2007
  • Innocence and Experience: The Making of 'The Age of Innocence'1993
  • A Moral Right: The Politics of Dirty Harry2008
  • Martin Scorsese Directs1990
  • Made in Milan1990
  • The Scorsese Machine1990
  • An American Named Kazan2019