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Christian Bale's The Pale Blue Eye becomes sleeper hit on Netflix

Unleash your inner detective as Christian Bale and Harry Melling team up in the sleeper hit The Pale Blue Eye on Netflix. Mystery and mayhem await!

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"This film is Poe's origin story"

Scott Cooper discusses his Netflix film placing Edgar Allan Poe in a detective story starring Christian Bale

Salon

Netflix's The Pale Blue Eye uses a fictional whodunnit to explore the origins of Edgar Allan Poe

Netflix’s The Pale Blue Eye is an artist origin story with a difference.

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Is Netflix’s The Pale Blue Eye based on a true story?

Christian Bale stars as a world-weary detective in Netflix’s grisly whodunnit

Manchester Evening News

Movie review: ‘The Pale Blue Eye’ is an appealingly dark period mystery, but Scott Cooper’s adaptation largely frustrates

Scott Cooper is a competent filmmaker. He’s rarely an extraordinary one.

Tribune News Service

Twixmas movies: From Avatar to Bones and All, the best films to see at the cinema over the Christmas break

From thrillers to period dramas, the new films just keep coming

Evening Standard

Movie review: ‘The Pale Blue Eye’ spies a badly written mystery flop

An overacted, badly written, murder mystery dud, “The Pale Blue Eye” takes its title from a quote from Edgar Allan Poe’s 1843 Boston-set story “The Tell-Tale Heart.” Poe himself is also a character in the film, an adaptation of the 2006 novel by Louis Bayard adapted by writer-director Scott Cooper…

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‘The Pale Blue Eye’: Christian Bale impresses again as detective partnered with young Edgar Allan Poe

Even when the 19th century mystery takes some insanely big dramatic swings, Bale is immersed in his performance.

Chicago Sun-Times

'The Pale Blue Eye' review: Edgar Allan Poe steals Christian Bale's thunder

Harry Melling as young Poe makes you yearn for a Netflix TV series. Here's why this former Harry Potter star steals the show in 'The Pale Blue Eye.'

Inverse

The Pale Blue Eye review – baffled, beardy Christian Bale in gruesome murder yarn

Set in 1830, a mildly ridiculous plot sends a haunted Bale to investigate the gothic killing of a military cadet

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