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Savage Grace

Drama Julianne Moore stars in this dramatization of the shocking Barbara Daly Baekeland murder case, which happened in a posh London flat on Friday 17 November 1972. The bloody crime caused a stir on both sides of the Atlantic and remains one of the most memorable American Tragedies...
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Chicago Tribune
Chicago Tribune
"'Savage Grace' comes up bland and seems to go nowhere in particular." NEU
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Chicago Reader
Chicago Reader
Julianne Moore proves game for anything in this pitch-black true-crime reconstruction." POS
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USA Today
USA Today
"'Savage Grace' is a thoroughly disturbing story, told in a detached style rendering the overall experience an unsettling blend of lurid and vacuous." NEU
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AV Club
AV Club
"'Savage Grace' should have the force of Greek tragedy, but Kalin's chamber drama feels curiously stifling and flat, and Moore's volatile turn isn't enough to quicken its pulse." NEU
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The Globe and Mail
The Globe and Mail
"The film walks the fine line between exploitation and empathy to cast a chilly, memorable spell" POS
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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
"Living these lives, for these people, must have been sad and tedious, and so, inevitably, is their story, and it must be said, the film about it." NEU
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Vulture
Vulture
"Howard A. Rodman's script has a lot of juice, and the rhythms are so pregnant that the air vibrates with something, even if you're not sure what. " POS
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Entertainment Weekly
Entertainment Weekly
"The director, Tom Kalin, stages acid duels, but he should have provided more psychological structure. Though Moore, a great actress, turns fury into verbal music, we're never quite sure what's driving her" POS
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