R | 1h 59m | Police procedural, Thriller | April 21, 2023
After running up 17 flights of stairs in a burning building with no gas-mask, young Baltimore cop Eleanor Falco (Shailene Woodley) passes out cold when she reaches the incinerated apartment of her destination. But her gung-ho first-responder zeal is duly noted by FBI lead investigator Geoffrey Lammark (Ben Mendelsohn).
Officer Eleanor Falco (Shailene Woodley, front, center), in “To Catch a Killer.” (Vertical Entertainment)
Lammark’s onsite after the bullet-trajectory-determining lasers of law enforcement forensic investigators—from various kill-sites around the city—have all converged on this particular apartment. It’s the sniper-hide of a highly talented mass murderer who’s just killed 29 people near the harbor. Using a Vietnam-era sniper rifle, and timing his shots to be covered by noisy firework explosions on New Year’s Eve, he subsequently blows up said apartment, and disappears, leaving zero evidence….