A True-Crime Flop Becomes a Documentary Masterpiece

True Crime Is Killing Documentary Filmmaking. Now There’s a True-Crime Documentary About That.
All Charlie Shackleton had to do was give the Sundance Film Festival a 90-second video introducing himself and his documentary Zodiac Killer Project, which premiered at the festival on Monday. Instead,
‘Zodiac Killer Project’: A True-Crime Flop Becomes a Documentary Masterpiece
Watch enough true-crime documentaries and patterns begin to emerge—a situation that speaks to the genre’s embrace of a cookie-cutter formula defined by a host of recurring narrative and formal tropes.
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