Despite the talents of Knightley, Carrie Coon, and Chris Cooper, Hulu's true crime film adaptation never cracks the case.
Eventually, Loretta argues her way into covering a string of unsolved local murders on her own time. When she confirms certain shared details, the connected nature of the killings launches a media frenzy. As more murders occur, Loretta is paired with Jean Cole by her editor Jack MacLaine . Together, the duo identify a number of suspects and connected parties, including Albert DeSalvo , Daniel Marsh and George Nassar .
Along the way, Loretta and Jean—both married and with children, but utterly dedicated to their work—grapple with a fair amount of the garden-variety sexism of the era. They also face structural pushback from comfortably aligned power systems when their reporting reveals how a lack of interdepartmental information sharing and basic professional follow-through by police departments is impacting the trajectory of the investigation.
On a technical level, he delivers fine. Cinematographer Ben Kutchins contributes engaging work. And the movie’s production design and costuming communicate—in their own centering of functionality and chic drabness, respectively—the oppressiveness of the way things are and friction over changing times.Ruskin also knows how to convey essential background in economic strokes.
The relationship which most works is a sub rosa one between Loretta and Detective Conley , who meet occasionally to share details about the murders. Possessing begrudging mutual respect, each appreciates the other’s doggedness as well as the degree to which the other’s work can extend beyond the parameters of their own.Heavy on the telling versus the showing, Ruskin’s film lacks compelling, standout scenes. For long passages it simply plods along, offering perfunctory, surface-level engagement.
The 2023 version of this tale centers the women who broke the story, and reported it out. It could and should be more interesting, but instead it offers no new illumination—just a different muddy version of a complex case.
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