An excellent pairing of Keira Knightley and Carrie Coon.

| Mar 30, 2023

The movie’s “Zodiac” running on fewer cylinders, with many pointed things to say about the difficulties faced by working women in the early 1960s but a lugubrious narrative structure that sprawls and wanders and eventually sputters out.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 24, 2023

The matchup of Keira Knightly and Carrie Coon punches up this involving, period-rich but somewhat ordinary thriller that celebrates old-school journalism.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 22, 2023

It's not as good as Spotlight or Zodiac, but it's perfectly involving.

| Mar 21, 2023

Knightley, in a performance as crisp as the corners of an envelope, makes McLaughlin’s perseverance—and the pressures she faced as she also tried to be a good wife and mother—deeply believable.

| Mar 21, 2023

The film... mostly works, thanks to Ruskin’s other angle: interrogating how the meaning of this story changes over time.

| Mar 21, 2023

Although all the elements are there for a spine-tingling Zodiac-style mystery thriller, the film fails to build any real momentum and ends up completely running out of steam.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 20, 2023

The reliance on the shot-through-a-dirty-fishtank look ultimately starts undercutting what is good about the movie: the work of its leads.

| Mar 20, 2023

This true-life crime drama has almost everything you could possibly want from a sharp revisionist thriller.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 17, 2023

Writer-director Matt Ruskin nicely captures both the hurdles and indignities Loretta faced as a woman in this male-dominated world and the palpable fear that gripped the city, another echo of Zodiac.

| Mar 17, 2023

You don’t have to be a crime reporter to admire McLaughlin and Cole, and the muted tone is fitting.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 17, 2023

A distant cousin to Zodiac, with splashes of Seven mixed into its homages, this thriller falls short of its influences yet carves out a small space of its own.

| Mar 17, 2023

Ruskin succeeds in paying tribute to Loretta McLaughlin and Jean Cole's hard work, but it's less successful in filling in the larger story.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 17, 2023

If “Boston Strangler” wants us to buy its multiple-killer theory, it would help if we could trust this movie enough to believe what we’re being sold.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 17, 2023

It’s frustrating that this immense, immersive true-crime story has been squeezed into a two-hour movie instead of a series about the two women reporters—superbly played by Keira Knightley and Carrie Coon—who broke a notorious case the police could not.

| Mar 17, 2023

Knightley, Chris Cooper and Carrie Coon can’t fix a plodding, unfocused script.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 17, 2023

With cinematographer Ben Kutchins lensing in effectively unsettling, saturated and almost sickly tones of green and brown and gray, and a soundtrack with period-piece tunes, we’re plunged into the world of Boston in the early 1960s.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 17, 2023

Knightley, enjoying her most interesting film role since 2018’s Colette, tucks into the project with intelligent vigor. It’s a calm and confident performance that matches Ruskin’s solemn tone.

| Mar 16, 2023

It has one thing to say, and it says it over and over again with a dismal lack of nuance.

| Mar 16, 2023

The movie attempts to serve multiple narrative masters, but ends up coming across as vague and indistinct.

| Original Score: C | Mar 16, 2023