The Pale Blue Eye (2022)
Along with Denzel Washington, Christian Bale is one of my favorite actors from nowadays, and Edgar Allan Poe is a writer I’ve long enjoyed. The Pale Blue Eye throws the two of them together in a murder mystery set at West Point, with Bale playing Detective Augustus Landor and Poe played by Harry Melling. The result is amazing and astonishing. We need more movies like this.
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