After a bri✤ef stint in limited theaters over the holiday period, period horror-thriller The Pale Blue Eye arrived on Netflix on January 6.  

Christian Bale plays Augustus Landor, a veteran detective hired to solve a series of murders that took place in 1830 at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York. He's helped by a young cadet who will later become a world-famous author &nd✤ash; Edgar Allan Poe, the master of gothic fiction, played by The Queen's Gambit's Harry Melling. The cast also includes Gillian Anderson, Toby Jones, and Timothy Spall. 

praises the movie's sound, but feels the film is lacking in other areas: "Howard Shore’s routinely excellent moody scores helps our wend through the wilderness. But the irony, foꦆr a would-be-macabre mystery about hearts being ripped out, is a flatlined pulse and a puzzling absence of red meat."

As for , their review reads: "It’s one of those handsomely mounted period pieces that should g🌌et under your skin; instead, it slumps from scene to scene with little momentum or tension, remaining just this side of inert."

However, according to , "If you put aside the frankly risible big reveal, the film still manages to be sm✱arter and more original than most of the countless B movies produced by Hollywood right now."

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