Woman of the Hour

2024

1h 35m

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6.4/10

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Crime

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Thriller

An aspiring actress crosses paths with a prolific serial killer in '70s LA when they're cast on an episode of "The Dating Game."

Directors

Anna Kendrick

Writers

Ian McDonald(writer by)

Stars

Anna Kendrick

Daniel Zovatto

Nicolette Robinson

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Sheryl Bradshaw

Rodney Alcala

Laura

Bachelor #2

Amy

Terry

Sarah

Charlie

Bachelor #1

Custodian (George Elliot)

Mario

Gretchen

Marilyn

Lisa

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Casting Director

Ken

Directors

Anna Kendrick

Writers

Ian McDonald(writer by)

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Tough but commendable choice for a directorial debut, to make a story out of something as complex, layered and non linear as true crime and gendered violence. And to do it so demurely—goes to show that a good film doesn't need to explicitly perpetuate exploitation in order for it to be present and sensed. What else to say but that I liked it... Woman of the Hour didn't strike me as yet another true crime adaptation seeking to conflate performative justice and mass entertainment, to me, this couldn't more clearly –neither on the nose, nor subtle enough to miss– be a critique of what continues to happen, of how class and gendered culture systemically uphold, enable and embed men in the social, figurative and literal deathly supression of women and children. An estimate as high as 130 isn't an extraordinary number, just a murder record, an statistic, it's weaponized, judicial negligence that to this day haunts us, because simply put: those whose jobs is to count our bodies, are the ones leaving us for dead. Not much has changed, that much is a universal truth; I guess, now, we just get people like Anna Kendrick and Ian McDonald to critique all of this in cleverly put stories shot in cool and warm dual tones.

signsoflife27 Dec, 2025