NeonOur craven desire for crime stories is nothing new—even Taylor Swift cites Law and Order: Special Victims Unit as one of her favorite shows. There’s a lurid pleasure and curiosity to watching these ripped-from-the-headlines reenactments happen to other people; thank goodness it’s them and not us. And everything in the genre, from Dateline to Serial, uses sound design to its storytelling advantage, creating a haunting, eerie, intense soundscape that ups the dramatic ante.It would be easy for
This week, pop culture critic Richard Crouse reviews new movies Killers of the Flower Moon, Anatomy of a Fall, The Pigeon Tunnel and Dicks: The Musical.