Jay Cocks
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)
- Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001 (2007)
- The Craft of Dirty Harry (2008)
- Martin Scorsese Directs (1990)
- Martin Scorsese's Journey Into Silence (2017)
- A Moral Right: The Politics of Dirty Harry (2008)
- Full Metal Jacket: Between Good and Evil (2007)
- Innocence and Experience: The Making of 'The Age of Innocence' (1993)
- The Business End: Violence in Cinema (2008)
- The Long Shadow of Dirty Harry (2008)
- Movies Are My Life (1988)
- Street Scenes 1970 (1970)
- An American Named Kazan (2019)
- The Scorsese Machine (1990)