​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Jay Cocks (born January 12, 1944) is a film critic and motion picture screenwriter. He is a graduate of Kenyon College. He was a critic for Time, Newsweek, and Rolling Stone, among other magazines, before moving into film writing. As a screenwriter, he worked on Martin Scorsese's The Age of Innocence and Gangs of New York -- a screenplay he started working on in 1976 -- as well as Kathryn Bigelow's Strange Days. Cocks also performed an uncredited rewr ...