Carrie Coon

Two underestimated women reporters battle sexism as they set out to solve the serial murders that struck fear into Boston in the early 1960s in this low-key ...

The movie’s final breaths strike an unintentional down note rather than an uplifting, empowering one as seemingly intended: Loretta, having learned from Jean’s advice to accept an imperfect work-life balance, debates walking into her home, where her husband is waiting, and instead heads to a local bar to join Jean. Paul Leonard-Morgan’s score is haunting and foreboding, making the hairs on the back of our neck prickle. It makes a searing indictment of the sloppy, sexism-laced police work that might’ve resolved the case, and pays tribute to the two women who broke the investigation wide open. The death toll continues to rise, persons of interest (played by David Dastmalchian and Ryan Winkles) slip through their hands and the cops’ glaring mistakes begin to surface. But after her first front-page story draws the ire of Boston Police Commissioner McNamara (Bill Camp), Jack assigns Loretta a seasoned partner: Jean Cole ( [Carrie Coon](https://variety.com/t/carrie-coon/)), whose connections and quick-witted know-how will garner better results. [Keira Knightley](https://variety.com/t/keira-knightley/)) is a lifestyle reporter at the Record American, a newspaper continually scooped by its competitors.

Keira Knightley and Carrie Coon step into the shoes of investigative reporters in Boston Strangler (on Disney+ March 17), based on the U.S. serial killer ...

One of the many losses suffered as the medium of film has ceded ground to streaming television is the elegant procedural—the kind of movie that deals with ...

Albert DeSalvo was long thought (by some) to be the sole perpetrator of these 13 crimes, and yet Boston Stranger, and its central characters, aren’t quite satisfied with that conclusion. And it does so without exploiting the real loss and horror at the center of its story. For much of its run, Boston Strangler is straightforward, tracking an escalating citywide panic about these unsolved (and ongoing) murders toward the capturing of a prime suspect. Ruskin is careful to add layers of texture to his handsomely mounted film, trying to locate the actual people at the center of a storm of headlines and gruesome happenings. Look to Boston Strangler, a new film debuting on Hulu on March 17, which borrows from (or gives a nod of respect to) Zodiac’s playbook to investigate, in fictional form, its titular ghoul. Thus there is a ceiling to break through while she attempts to crack the case, an added element of stakes and tension that gives Boston Strangler a more poignant depth than had it simply been a grimy murder mystery.