
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.

Street Scenes 1970
1970 · as Self

Martin Scorsese Directs
1990 · as Self

The Scorsese Machine
1990 · as Self

Full Metal Jacket: Between Good and Evil
2007 · as Self

A Moral Right: The Politics of Dirty Harry
2008 · as Self

Martin Scorsese's Journey Into Silence
2017 · as Self

The Long Shadow of Dirty Harry
2008 · as Self

Movies Are My Life
1988 · as Self

The Craft of Dirty Harry
2008 · as Self

Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001
2007 · as Self

Innocence and Experience: The Making of 'The Age of Innocence'
1993 · as Self

The Business End: Violence in Cinema
2008 · as Self

An American Named Kazan
2019 · as Self

Jay Cocks and Farran Smith Nehme on 'The Heiress'
2019 · as Self