
Jay Cocks
WritingBorn 1944-01-12 (82)
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.
Known for

Mr. Scorsese
2025

Movies Are My Life
1988

Street Scenes 1970
1970

The Business End: Violence in Cinema
2008

A Moral Right: The Politics of Dirty Harry
2008

Full Metal Jacket: Between Good and Evil
2007

Martin Scorsese Directs
1990

The Scorsese Machine
1990

The Craft of Dirty Harry
2008

Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001
2007

Martin Scorsese's Journey Into Silence
2017

Innocence and Experience: The Making of 'The Age of Innocence'
1993

The Long Shadow of Dirty Harry
2008

An American Named Kazan
2019