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Jake Gyllenhaal continues his quest to have the widest-ranging body of work among his peers in Demolition, a comedy about grief by Jean-Marc Vallée (Dallas Buyers Club, Wild). Jake plays a Wall Street guy who loses his wife but does not know how to grieve or be angry. So everything becomes a metaphor to him. He starts taking machines apart and trying to put them back together to see how they work—this is his way of figuring out what his marriage was. Later he takes apart larger things.

Demolition is very engaging, if a bit too cheerful for a movie about sorrow and loss, but Jake is awesome. In each of his roles, be he a boxer, a gay cowboy, an ambitious lowlife, an academic and his doppelganger, or literally a body in a box, he looks, sounds, and moves differently. In Nightcrawler he looked like a stick insect with giant compound eyes; here, he looks like a very fit, slow-moving investment banker. Demolition also stars Naomi Watts (who would be an even bigger star kung marunong lang siyang magmaganda), Chris Cooper whose sorrow is too real for this movie, and a wonderful new actor named Judah Lewis who plays a teenager who worries he may be gay.

In one scene Jake wears headphones and walks through Wall Street in an interpretative dance of confusion and bottled-up rage. Watch this movie.