Review: ‘Boston Strangler,’ starring Kiera Knightly and Carrie Coon, is a sturdy, thoughtfully constructed film that’s more than just a grimy murder mystery.
approaches its vexing and terrible case through the eyes of journalist Loretta McLaughlin , who notices a pattern in a string of murder cases in early 1960s Boston and becomes the first reporter to identify them as the work of a serial killer.
Because Loretta is a woman in a heavily male-dominated industry , she has previously had her ambition sidelined into lighter fare, far from the kind of vital breaking news she wants to cover. Thus there is a ceiling to break through while she attempts to crack the case, an added element of stakes and tension that givesa more poignant depth than had it simply been a grimy murder mystery.
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