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Murder by Numbers (2002)
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Sandra Bullock, Ryan Gosling, Michael Pitt, Ben Chaplin, Agnes Bruckner
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Moments of force exist within a work that feels more like product than art, and things end up disturbing for all the wrong reasons.
It's an intriguing set-up, but the execution leaves a lot to be desired.
The problem is that there's no real mystery to this mystery.
... It leaves you feeling that it could have been so much more.
Lesson learned: Never ask Ben Chaplin to lose his British accent.
The literal cliffhanger ending is far too overblown to be convincing, but most of what comes before it deserves praise.
Director Barbet Schroeder, whose Barfly (1987) remains one of the most memorable in my mental filmbank, shoots this script with the kind of concentrated power that turns every scene into the most effective tool emotionally as well as expositionally.
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