The Pale Blue Eye
2022
**
Director: Scott Cooper
Cast: Christian Bale, Harry Melling, Gillian Anderson, Lucy Boynton, Robert Duvall, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Toby Jones, Harry Lawtey, Simon McBurney, Hadley Robinson, Timothy Spall
Augustus Landor is a retired detective and widower whose daughter ran away. In October 1830, he is summoned to West Point Military Academy when a cadet is found hanged and his heart cut out. Landor gets help from another cadet by the name of Edgar Allan Poe. This murder mystery takes a real-life historical figure and places him in a fictional set-up. Although the film is beautifully shot, staged, and acted, it ultimately delivers a very disappointing shaggy dog story. Based on Louis Bayard's 2006 novel.
