Director Atom Egoyan has dealt with the awful legacy of child murder before, most notably in his underrated 90s masterpiece Exotica. This dramatic reconstruction of a real-life crime that has already spawned three convictions and four documentaries (but no sense of closure or certainty) concentrates once again upon the traumatised aftermath of an appalling event.
Reese Witherspoon and Colin Firth are the bereaved mother and troubled private detective struggling to unravel the murder of three young boys in west Memphis, May 1993, which sparked international headlines about satanic cults and ritual killings.
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