Boston Strangler (2023)
If you've seen Richard Fleischer's 'The Boston Strangler' (1968), you'll probably remember Tony Curtis' excellent performance as the mentally disturbed killer Albert DeSalvo. But DeSalvo was only found guilty of one of thirteen murders of women in Boston in the early sixties, and many believe there was more than one perpetrator.
DeSalvo is not featured (but is mentioned) in the new TV movie 'Boston Strangler', which approaches the case from the point of view of politicians, police and press, focusing on two female reporters (Kiera Knightly and Carrie Coon) and is more reminiscent in plot and style of movies like 'All the President's Men', 'She Said' and especially 'Zodiac', from which it tries to rip off the mood, but without reaching the same level of creepiness, because its main purpose (in the wake of the #MeToo movement) is to depict how difficult it was to be taken seriously as a female journalist in the patriarchal press rooms of the sixties.
Watch it on Disney+
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