Anna Kendrick’s Woman of the Hour, now on Netflix, takes snapshots of the 1970s, none of them flattering. In 1971, a young woman moving into a new apartment enlists a stranger to help haul some furniture. He helps, hangs out for a beer, flirts with her, and attacks her. In 1977, that same man strangles a woman more than halfway across the country. In 1979, he picks up a teenage runaway. In 1978, he appears on The Dating Game.
Some of this time-skipping, as well as the ominousness of all these segments, recalls the quiet, inescapable menace of David Fincher’s Zodiac. Compared to Fincher, Kendrick is more interested in the personal details than the grist of subsequent investigations – though part of the problem, she implies, is that there isn’t much grist to begin with. Rodney Alcala (Daniel Zovatto) was killing and assaulting women and girls for at least a
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