To Catch a Killer
2023
***
Director: Damián Szifron
Cast: Shailene Woodley, Ben Mendelsohn, Jovan Adepo, Ralph Ineson, Michael Cram, Mark Camacho, Darcy Laurie, Rosemary Dunsmore, Jesse Camacho, Nick Walker
After a highly skilled sniper kills 29 random people in Baltimore and then disappears, a talented but troubled police officer is brought onto the case led by the FBI. Damián Szifron's crime thriller doesn't beat around the bush. After the brutal and adrenaline-filled opening scene, the story settles down to a more conventional crime procedural. With a female investigator chasing a serial killer, The Silence of the Lambs vibes are inevitable. However, the script by Szifron and Jonathan Wakeham doesn't achieve the same level of originality, and the ending, in particular, is frustratingly clichéd.
