Edgar Allen Poe is an iconic figure, and he helped create the modern murder mystery. Writer and director Scott Cooper’s The Pale Blue Eye may be a fictional story, but it’s a fascinating mystery with Poe, and one keen detective, at its heart.
Film
Scott Cooper
Writer-director Scott Cooper’s The Pale Blue Eye is a dull, but gorgeously produced and well performed bit of speculative fiction.
Writer and director Scott Cooper’s Hostiles isn’t one of the worst films ever made, but it’s one of the worst kinds of films: a self-important, plodding, and basic diatribe about the negative impact of Colonialism that’s too wrapped up in its own sense of personal accomplishment and air of ennui that it doesn’t realize how it’s conforming to negative stereotypes instead of subverting them.