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Manhunter

Thriller Will Graham is a former FBI agent who recently retired to Florida with his wife Molly and their young son. Graham was a 'profiler'; one who profiles criminal's behavior and tries to put his mind into the minds of criminals to examine their thoughts while visiting crime scenes. Will is called out of his self-imposed retirement at the request of his former boss Jack Crawford to help the FBI catch an elusive serial killer, known to the ... [+]
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United States
The Washington Post
"A gory and gorgeous cop thriller" 
United States
AV Club
"Mann takes all the instincts he learned as a Miami Vice producer and trims them of their excesses, and the result is an unsettling thriller whose detached style perfectly complements its psychological intensity"
United Kingdom
Empire
"An exercise in subtlety and nuance (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)" 
United States
Chicago Reader
"I'm rather intrigued with what Mann does with his stylistic envelope: it's simultaneously hypnotic and enervating, meditative and empty, like a white-noise background"
United States
Variety
"An unpleasantly gripping thriller... Interesting Hitchcockian guilt transference territory and Mann's grip on his material is tight and sure"
United Kingdom
Time Out
"One of the most impressive American thrillers of the late '80s."
United States
Slant
Mann’s focus is so esoteric that he slowly turns the garish thriller into a kind of poetry"
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