Shot by Stephen McCoy over five years, Nightcrawlers is a ground-level look at homelessness and addiction. McCoy—who ended up both homeless and addicted to heroin while making the documentary—offers no commentary, no Freudian causality, and no solutions. Instead, he simply watches others and himself. That would be enough, but Luc Benson’s stream-of-consciousness editing is what makes Nightcrawlers soar. Rarely has depravity been presented this bluntly—and poetically.

Nightcrawlers (2019)
Directed by Stephen McCoy
Jasper and Ronca Productions, Not rated, Running time 75 minutes, Premiered Aug. 25, 2019

The above blurb first appeared in the pages of Boulder Weekly Vol. 27, No. 11, “The show must go on.”