Newly-discovered facts, court records and speculation are used to elaborate the true love story and murder mystery of the most notorious unsolved murder case in New York history.
There's a fascinating story here for a bolder filmmaker, but after so much meandering it's a relief that All Good Things must come to an end.
– Joe Williams,
St. Louis Post-Dispatch,
31 Jan 2011
rotten:
Jarecki knows how to make scenes of boisterous family reunions and quiet moments between lovers engaging: He fares less well, though, when the story takes a dark turn.
– Rene Rodriguez,
Miami Herald,
20 Jan 2011
rotten:
Director Andrew Jarecki, who made his name with the documentary Capturing the Friedmans, is less successful at limning family dysfunctionality in the fictional mode.
– Peter Rainer,
Christian Science Monitor,
3 Jan 2011
rotten:
It also feels like one man's attempt to try another in the court of cinema, or perhaps correct the course of justice itself.
– Rafer Guzman,
Newsday,
3 Jan 2011
fresh:
The unsolved crime turns out to be less mysterious than the mind of the killer, nervily portrayed by Gosling as not evil but unaccountably empty.