Michael Pearce directs Jessie Buckley, Johnny Flynn and Geraldine James in this psychological drama about a damaged young woman who starts a relationship with a murder suspect.

A film that plays in the same sandbox as Hitchcock’s Suspicion or Shadow of A Doubt. It can be a little heavy handed at times although the middle section is overwhelmingly powerful in representing the lead’s mental turmoil and reminded me of real life tabloid cases from my youth like Maxine Carr. It is helped by very muscular and playfully ambiguous performances from both Buckley and Flynn.

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