Film Review – Woman of the Hour

Anna Kendrick has certainly made an effort to try different things in recent years. She pays the bills in movies about singing and dancing trolls, but she’s also branching out dramatically, giving one of her finest performances in 2022’s “Alice, Darling,” a tale of domestic abuse, and she returns to the dangers of predatory men in “Woman of the Hour.” Kendrick assumes control of the endeavor, making her directorial debut with this tale of serial killer Rodney Alcala and his obsession with making his female victims suffer. It’s a true crime tale given many interesting angles in Ian McDonald’s screenplay, while Kendrick offers a confident study of unusual menace and Female Experience frustration, doing particularly well during moments of suspense. “Woman of the Hour” isn’t graphic, but it’s strong stuff, summoning genuine cinematic horror as it details the real-world tale of a vicious man and his smooth-talking ways. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com