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With the oldest saloon in the US, iconic seafood stops and a reimagined 18th-century market, the Maryland ’hood offers the perfect blend of old and new, writes Richard Franks

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

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

Despite the best efforts of Christian Bale, Gillian Anderson and co, this wintry crime yarn featuring a young Edgar Allan Poe descends into farce

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…

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

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.'

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